MotoGP Le Mans: Jorge Martin takes first win of 2023, but Fabio Quartararo crashes out

Starting from pole, MotoGP c♛hampion Francesco Bagnaia made a brilliant start as he led into turn one from Jack Mil𒐪ler.
However, second place quickly changed hands as Jorge Martin’s wide line gave him th💦e inside for turn three as he swooped past Miller and Marc Marqu💙ez.
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- As it hꦉappened: Martin breaks victory deadlock as Quartararo crashes out
Using a medium front tyre, the same tyre that was used by many riders that 🌠crashed in Friday’s practice 2, Miller suffered an early exit at turn seven.
Directly ahead of Marquez, Miller lost theܫ front-end of his RC16 mid-corner, while teammate Brad Binder put a hard move on Luca Marini for P4 a🌼t turn eight.
At the beginning of lap four came the first overtake for the lead as Martin dove to the inside of Bagnaia at💛 turn two.
The Pramac rider then put a full🎶 second into ⭕Bagnaia as Marquez lined up a move. The Repsol Honda man attempted to do the same overtake as Martin but Bagnaia stayed strong around the outside.
However, Binder took full advantage of both riders holding each other up as 🐽he squared off t🎃urn three and powered past on the run to turn four.
Marquez finally got his move on Bagnaia compleওted at 🌼the beginning of lap six which allowed Marini to also come through.
The reigning world champion quickly fought back in order to claim P4 before regrouping in order to challe൲nge Marquez once again.
Lap seven saw ☂a crash for Augusto Fernandez, while at the front, Martin’s lead over Binder w꧃as up to 1.5 seconds.
Bagnaia, who was all over Marquez, regained a podium spot aღs he overtook Marquez with a brave move at turn one.
With the cameras showcasing an onboard view of Fabio Quartararo in eighth, the 2021 world champion dramat⛄ically lost the front-endℱ of his Yamaha at turn nine with four laps remaining.
Quartararo had made brilliant progress from 13th to eighth prior to his crash which🍌𒐪 was a huge disappointment for the home crowd.
With Marquez now struggling, Mari💦ni was the next rider to pounce on the ei💃ght-time world champion at turn two.
Marquez did manaꦡge to stay close to Marini but ꦚhe was unable to challenge the Italian.
At the front, t♔he top three remained unchan𒉰ged as Martin took his first win of 2023.