Eight-time world♏ champion Marc Marquez continued his MotoGP comeback with a goo🔯d first day at Le Mans as he finished inside the top ten for Repsol Honda.

Marc Marquez was one of a few riders to try and improve on dry tyres during a changing track in FP1, but whilst on his outlap, rain🌳 started to fall again and therefore had to abandon the idea. 

It didn’t impact his ultimate positioning much however, as Marquez finished fifth before settling for eighth in the afternoon on combined times - a position th𒈔at should be safe for automat🔯ic access to Q2. 

In recent years Marq🐻uez haꦛs raised the bar when it comes to putting a fast lap together on a damp track with slick tyres. 

Interesti🅰ngly this was something put towards Marquez in his media debrief as he was asked whether a fully healthy ‘Marquez’ would have stuck at it in FP1 with the slicks🔴 on.

Marquez responded ꧑by saying: "It's true that my confidence now is not very high. It's true t🤪hat for example after Jerez I think at home and everything and I need to take care about the risk at the moment. 

"It's not like I don’t want to take a risk, but to control that ris⛎k I'm not in good physical condition, so some strange movemen♒t on the bike, maybe I cannot control like before.

"So I was wai𝕴ting a bit and I don’t put the slick tyres before because I already had a good lap time on wets. I know that it was time to go to slicks, but I was not the first rider, I think I was the third or fourth rider with slicks. 

"But five minutes before, already it was possible to go wi🎶th slicks. But it's not the time to take a lot of risks in FP1. We will take risks tomorrow in qualifying and then the race, but always try to be inside the limits."

Marquez alludedꦬ to not being quite as comfortable in the dry, and with wet conditions expected to dominate the remainder of the weekend, it could be just what the 28 year-old needs as the physicality of riding a MotoGP bike will be reduced somewhat. 

"My day has been a standard day for my comeback. I mean in w🦄et conditions I feel not bad at all, it's true that it's less demanding physically and I feel better," added Marquez. 

"In the dry I was struggling, I mean when I stopped in the box and saw P8, I said 'okay, better'.&🌞nbsp;

"But I was struggling. We tried a few things on 💛the bike in the second run but my feeling was not good, then I stopped. I thought it was a problem on the bike but it was my problem. I'm still not precise about t🌌he comments and feelings. But this is my job, I need to improve there. 

"About the new tyres - just I ride, take care in T1, turn 3 and the change of directions๊ because I was struggling a bit and on the hard brake points like turn 8 I was♉ struggling. 

"But apart from that we know where we are and even like this we are not ꦡvery far from the 🗹top guys."