Despite lap times remaining🍨 close to seven tenths off of FP2, home favourite Fabio Quartararo was leading the way from Marc Marquez. 

A ti💧me of 1:31.844s was set by the French rider, however, Jorge Martin clocked a 1:31.798s to g🔥o quickest. 

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After a disastrous day-one 𓄧at Le Mans, Takakki Nakagami managed to put his LCR Honda in second in regards to FP3 - 11th on combined time🀅s.  

Marking a drastic change compared to events of💯 FP2, the first 20 minutes of the session were without any crashes. 

That unfortunately𒊎 changed with exactly 25 minutes to go as Pol Espargaro, who is under intense pressure to keep his Honda ride, crashed at turn 7. 

Nakagami, wꦜho is another Honda rider under pressure to perform, was seemingly the first rider to improve on combined times. 

The Japanese rider went quickest for FP3 which translated to fourth overall. However, Nakagami then lost his lap due to exceeding track ♌lim𒆙its at the final corner. 

The fastes🌊t ever rider at Le Mans, Enea Bastianini had a mechan﷽ical issue with just over ten minutes to go. 

The Italian, who was making his way along the back-straight, was reduced to pulling off-track after a huge puff 🔯of smoke came from the 🉐rear of his Gresini Ducati. 

As lap times bega💟n to challenge Bastianini’s day-one effort, Marquez moved up to fourth after using Quart𝓀araro as a tow. 

That then turned into third despite suffering a near massive highside at turn 10. Meanwhile, Quartararo set the first-eve🔴r sub 1m 31s lap to go three tenths clear of Bastianini. 

Jack Miller managed to reduce Quartararo’s lead to two tenths, before pole sitter at Jerez, Francesco Bagnaia went fastest by nearly three te🃏nths. 

In what was a repeat of the previ🐻ous run, Marquez used Quartararo to drag himself into⛎ the top three.   

With the top three looking set, Zarco had other ideas as he gained time on Bagnaia in the final sector to go fastest, and with it becoming the third different rider to br💛eak the official lap record.

Bastianini a contender to make it three MotoGP wins in 2022?

Two-time MotoGP ra⛄ce winner, Basti🍨anini ended day-one of the Le Mans MotoGP fastest after setting a new lap record. 

The Italian was over two 🎃tenths clear of Aleix Espargaro, with the S💯paniard once again showing good speed at the Bugatti Circuit. 

In typical Le Mans fashion, crashes were a big🍒 highlight of Friday practice as a total of eight riders crashed in FP2. 

Among those were Bastianini, Jack Miller, Joan Mir🌺 and both Mooney VR46 Ducati riders Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini. 

One rider who came close to crashing but didn’t, was Repsol Honda’s Marquez. The eight-time world ༒champion produced back-to-back ‘saves’, with the first coming in FP1 at turn eight. 

The secon꧃d was equally impressive as he managed to collect a momentary front-end wobble at turn seven, the same corner that brother Alex fell at.