Marquez in ominous form in Le Mans MotoGP practice

Marc Marquez rounded off a perfect run through MotoGP Friday practice with the new best premier-class lap at the Le Mans Bugatti circuit.

Key moments:

• Marquez looks well ahead
• Di Giannantonio struggling
• Yamaha revitalised
• Honda misses out

Marquez was completely untouchable in first practice - setting the five fastest laps and two chalked-off laps that were also good enough for first place - and picked up where he left off in the hour-long second session.

He led the majority of the running and ensured first place with the first sub-1m30s lap of the day, a 1m29.855s that now stands as the MotoGP record lap at the French Grand Prix venue.

His lead, however, was rendered a bit more palatable by the end by late improvements from home hero Fabio Quartararo and Ducati team-mate Pecco Bagnaia - who went 0.177s and 0.184s slower respectively.

Gresini rookie Fermin Aldeguer was a superb fourth, 0.37s off Marquez but 0.04s ahead of the other Marquez, his points-leading Gresini team-mate Alex.

Jack Miller confirmed Yamaha's progress - which has been aided by a new, more powerful engine - with sixth place for Pramac, ahead of KTM riders Pedro Acosta and Maverick Vinales, Vinales slowed by a rare crash in the final minutes.