Fabio Quartararo says he took a cautious approach to Friday's MotoGP practice for the French Grand Prix, worried the damp conditions meant he could "lose the championship" with a mistake. The Petronas SRT rider was 18th at the end of the fully wet FP1 session at Le Mans on Friday and currently sits outside of the Q2 positions on combined timesheets after he was 1.133 seconds off the pace in the drying FP2. Quartararo currently leads the MotoGP standings by eight points from Suzuki's Joan Mir, who was ninth overall. "In these conditions I took care because it is not two laps in FP2 that will make a big difference during the weekend," Quartararo said. "You saw [Luca]...
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