Marc Marquez claimed his 13th sprint victory of the 2025 MotoGP season at Balaton Park, extending his Saturday dominance on the Ducati.
VR46 teammates Fabio di Giannantonio and Franco Morbidelli completed the podium after a chaotic opening lap set the tone.
From lights out, Marquez took the holeshot while chaos unfolded behind him.
Getting Turn 1 all wrong, Fabio Quartararo lost control of his bike, sailing straight through the Top 6, nearly collecting Enea Bastianini, and ending his day prematurely
Fabio Quartararo's incident from more angles 👇 #HungarianGP 🇭🇺 pic.twitter.com/gEBzJ8apQf
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The incident was followed by more drama as the Italian, having been shunted down the order by the Turn 1 incident, and quite possibly with a bit of anger under the helmet, collided with Johann Zarco in an attempt to overtake the Frenchman into Turn 9, eliminating both riders.
The early chaos allowed Honda’s Luca Marini and Joan Mir to slot into the top five, while di Giannantonio moved swiftly past his teammate Morbidelli for second.
Behind, Fermin Aldeguer, held back by a poor qualifying once again, impressed with some solid used tyre pace, passing Mir for fifth.
The rookie’s charge for an attack on Luca Marini in fourth, however, was too little too late.
Having been forced to pick up his Aprilia to avoid the Turn 1 incident involving Quartararo, Marco Bezzecchi mounted a late charge for sixth, coming as close as one-tenth to Joan Mir, before settling for P7.
Despite some good late-sprint pace, Alex Marquez was not able to make a comeback worth noting, but picked up two points as he and Jorge Martin rounded out the Top 10.
Further back, Francesco Bagnaia showed no signs of a miracle solution to his Balaton Park struggles, finishing only 13th, almost 15 seconds down on his teammate.
More drama for the shark 🦈@37_pedroacosta goes down at T11 💥#HungarianGP 🇭🇺 pic.twitter.com/r0PJ5uLPIg
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Pedro Acosta’s sprint unravelled after a lap six crash dropped him to 17th.
His KTM teammate Binder picked up some damage on the front of his bike in a Turn 1 contact and was forced to come to the pits to swap the front fairing of his RC-16.
The South African rejoined the sprint shortly after to do some set-up tweaking for tomorrow’s Grand Prix race.
