Start getting serious right away Toprak Razgatlioglu in the first Free Practice session of the Magny-Cours Round, with the championship leader already having set the fastest lap. Coming from a real domination in the last four race weekends, the Turkish driver opened the French weekend by immediately achieving the best performance in 1:36.347a time already difficult for the competition to match or surpass.
The performance of is proof of this. Garrett Gerloff, 2nd in the rankings but with a delay of 353 thousandths by Razgatlioglu, with a ‘front row’ closed by another home rider BMW. The teammate of the 2021 world champion finished in third place, Van der Markbut almost 4 tenths from #54. The points where Razgatlioglu manages to make the difference are the third and fourth sectors, in a top-5 that includes the two riders of the Aruba.it-Ducati team, with Bulega 4th ahead of his teammate Bautista, who has just renewed his contract with the Borgo Panigale manufacturer.
The Spaniard, in particular, has a gap of as much as 7 tenths. Confirmation of the exceptional form of Razgatlioglu and BMW could arrive during FP2, scheduled for 14:55 on Sky Sport Arena and Sky Sport Max.
Magny-Cours 2024, FP1 ranking
| POS. | PILOT | MOTORCYCLE | TIME/GAP |
| 1 | Toprak Razgatlioglu | BMW | 1:36.347 |
| 2 | Garrett Gerloff | BMW | +0.353 |
| 3 | Michael van der Mark | BMW | +0.669 |
| 4 | Nicholas Bulega | Ducati | +0.689 |
| 5 | Alvaro Bautista | Ducati | +0.768 |
| 6 | Alex Lowes | Kawasaki | +0.938 |
| 7 | Jonathan Rea | Yamaha | +1.077 |
| 8 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati | +1.172 |
| 9 | Scott Redding | BMW | +1.192 |
| 10 | Michael Rinaldi | Ducati | +1.284 |
| 11 | Iker Lecuona | Honda | +1.454 |
| 12 | Xavi Vierge | Honda | +1.558 |
| 13 | Andrea Locatelli | Yamaha | +1.630 |
| 14 | Philipp Öttl | Yamaha | +1.796 |
| 15 | Remy Gardner | Yamaha | +1.911 |
| 16 | Andrea Iannone | Ducati | +2.089 |
| 17 | Axel Bassani | Kawasaki | +2.103 |
| 18 | Bradley Ray | Yamaha | +2.113 |
| 19 | Sam Lowes | Ducati | +2.180 |
| 20 | Titus Rabat | Kawasaki | +2.937 |
| 21 | Tarran MacKenzie | Honda | +3.262 |
| 22 | Alexander Delbianco | Yamaha | +3.720 |
| 23 | Ivo Lopez | Honda | +3.935 |
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