French MotoGP at Le Mans: Sprint race as it happened

Martin has done it once again. The Spaniard is the sprint king again at Le Mans as he wins from Marc Marquez and Vinales. 

Big save from Acosta at the penultimate corner as he loses ground to Espargaro. 

Martin leads Marquez by over two seconds following Bezzecchi's crash. Bastianini is catching Vinales for third. 

Martin is now well clear of Bezzecchi who is now losing time to Marquez.

Alex Rins is down after contact we believe with KTM's Brad Binder. 

The world champion is out and retired on lap 3 of the race. 

Bezzecchi is closing in on Martin and Marquez is not that far behind in third spot. 

Espargaro takes his first Long Lap and Marquez is now up to third behind Martin and Bezzecchi. 

Aleix Espargaro had a double Long Lap penalty due to jumping the start.

Bagnaia is last!!. The world champions has a problem. 

This is quite incredible from Marc Marquez. He's through on Vinales for P4.

Francesco Bagnaia has made a dreadful start he is 14th!! Marc Marquez has moved up from P13 to sixth. 

And it's lights out in the Le Mans MotoGP sprint race. 

Riders are off on their formation lap!

We're five minutes away from lights out!

Good afternoon and welcome back to the French MotoGP at Le Mans. Coming up in just over 15 minutes is the sprint race. 

The MotoGP sprint race at Le Mans will get underway at 14:00pm UK time.

2024 French MotoGP, Le Mans - Full Qualifying Results 

Aleix Espargaro and Jack Miller have also crashed out of qualifying. The order won't change.