There were early issues for Marc Marquez who swiftly returned to pit lane follow💜ing his out lap.

The 11-time race winner at Sachsenring managed to m🌠ake his way back out after jus🉐t six minutes of FP1.

At the front of the leaderboard, Jorge Martin was setting very fast times along with Alex Maꦍrquez.

After seeing Martin and brother Alex exchange fastest times, Marc Marquez made his mark as he went quickes🤡t by over tw🍰o tenths despite having to overtake Pedro Acosta at the final corner.

Marquez set a time of 1:21.027s as only three other riders were within half a s♈econd of the eight-time world champion.

Comfortably into the 🌺1m 20s barrier, Marquez increased his advantage to over half a second ahead of his𒆙 brother, Alex.

It was a slow star🅺t to FP1 for Francesco Bagnaia, who was down in 16th place with nearly 2ꦰ0 minutes gone.

Looking set to challenge Marquez’s top ti🥃me, Martin had two red sectors before running wide and into the gravel at tu🧸rn eight.

Martin then made a similar 🔥mistake just a few corners later as his attempts to match Marquez saw him run off at turn one.

After setting just a couple of laps, Ale𝔉ix Espargaro decided to pull out this weekend whilst the session w🅘as running.

Electing for new soft tyres to end the sesꦅsion, Ma꧃rtin managed to overhaul Marquez but only by a tenth of a second.

A very strong FP1 then came to a disappointing 🐻end for Marc Marquez as he crashed at 💮turn one. 

The🌌re was more drama for Spanish riders late on as Martin returned to pit due to his air bag going off, while Acosta suffered a front-end washout at the final corner.