Exchanging top times on several occasions in FP1, Alex Rins and Fabio Quartararo re🦩newed their tussle for top spot at the beginning of FP2. 

Rins went quickest f༺or Suzuki with a time of 1:32.192s, however, Quartararo wasted no time in going underneath the 1m 32s barrier as he set a 1:31.991s.

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While Rins was continuing to look strong, team-mate Joan Mir suffered a very quick crash at turn seven. Mir lost the front immediately after applying the brakes a🦹s his GSR-XX w👍as destroyed.  

After claiming he anticipates a rematch of thei🦋r Jerez 🌠battle, Quartararo was first to go quicker than FP1’s top time, but Bagnaia soon joined him as they moved clear of the rest. 

Quartararo was leading the duo, however, Bagnaia’s next lap around was enough to go quickest by juꦍst 0.005s. Meanwhile, Aleix Espargaro made it three riders within +0.039s as he went P3. 

With track action fairly quiet, Ducati unintentionally did their best to liv♓en things up… First came a huge moment for Johann Zarco as the Pramac rider got his braking completely wrong at turn one. 

The home favourite had to run through the gravel at some speed before bunny-hop๊ping his way back onto the circuit. Had another rider been turning then it could have ended in disaster, thankfully it did not. 

Seconds later and factory rider Jack Millerജ crashed at turn 11 after losing the fr🌜ont-end of his GP22 machine.

There was frustration for Rins as the Suzuki ride🗹r had to abort his latest lap due to being held💧 up by a slow moving Pol Espargaro. 

Crashes take centre stage in MotoGP FP2 at Le Mans

On a MotoGP bike for the first time 💯at Le Mans, RNF Yamaha rider Darryn Binder became the latest to crash - sector four. 

Miller’s eventful day continued on his next eꦏxit from pit lane. The Australian braked t🌠oo late for ‘Garage Vert’ (turn eight), and had to run through the gravel. 

There 🙈was another Ducati crash just moments later as𝐆 rookie Marco Bezzecchi lost the front at turn seven, the same corner as Mir. 

Although track conditions were proving tricky due to the heat, A. Espargar൩o ma𒀰naged to put his Aprilia quickest. 

Going from bad to worse, a third Ducati crash happened as Luca Marini made it back-to-back falls for Valentino Rossi’sꦦ Mooney VR46 team. 

With Mir, Miller, Binder, Bezzecchi and Marini all having gone down, Bastianini then became the latest🐎 as he fell at turn three, the first lap after he set a new all-time lap record. 

Shortly after and Franco Morbidelli suffered his second fall of the day, this time it was turn t🐻en. Alex Marquez made it three riders to crash at turn seven, before his brother Marc Marquez nearly had an identical front-end washout at the same corner. But unlike the others, Marquez saved it on his⛦ elbow, the second time that happened today. 

Pol Espargaro fastest in Le Mans MotoGP FP1

Stꦺarting off the weekend in f♒ine style, Pol Espargaro finished fastest after setting a time of 1:31.711s on his penultimate time attack. 

The Spa🧸niard, who finished over a tenth clear of Rins and Jerez winner Francesco Bagnaia, is facing increasing uncertainty as it relates to his R🐻epsol Honda future as Joan Mir has confirmed talks with HRC have already begun.