MotoGP makes its debut at Balaton Park this weekend as the Hungarian Grand Prix returns to the calendar for the first time in over 30 years.
Practice coming up this afternoon at 15:00 local time.
Marc Marquez enters this weekend with a 142-point championship lead over Alex Marquez and on a six-race win streak.
The Ducati riders are the only ones to have ridden in Balaton at a track day in the summer break.
Pol Espargaro also rode here during a test in June, and is replacing the injured Maverick Vinales at Tech3 this weekend.
Somkiat Chantra was due to be replaced by Aleix Espargaro but the Spanish rider was injured himself ahead of the event and so Johann Zarco will be the only LCR Honda rider on-track this weekend.
Pedro Acsota fastest in Practice in Balaton despite his late crash.
Marc Marquez second and Alex Marquez rounds out the top-three. #93 the only Honda in the top-10 with Di Giannantonio 13th and Bagnaia 14th.
Aldeguer fourth from Bastianini and Morbidelli in the top-six.
Mir seventh, then Espargaro, Marini, and a very impressive Quartararo in 10th.
Both factory Aprilias miss out in 11th and 12th.
Bezzecchi's missed out as well, P12, Martin only 11th. Another tough Friday for Aprilia.
Marc Marquez goes second, 0.006s off the top, with his last lap.
Bagnaia only 13th, 0.728s off the top.
Nasty high-side for Acosta while chasing Marc Marquez through Q2.
Crash for Zarco as well at turn 11.
Bagnaia only 13th with the first lap of his second run.
Alex Marquez up to second.
Quartararo was fourth but now back in P9.
Acosta has crashed at turn two.
The incident with Marquez, Bagnaia, and Miller is now under investigation.
Alex Marquez, by the way, third at the moment, 0.614s behind Acosta.
Only one lap for Bagnaia's firs ttime attack run, he's back in the pits now because he caught traffic on the second one. Alex Marquez on the line through turn three, Miller in front of Bagnaia too but he looked just as annoyed with Marquez as Bagnaia.
Mir eighth after his first time attack. Marini also in the top-10 in 10th.
Acosta back to the pits after that excellent first time attack run.
Bagnaia only 10th with his first time attack. 1.1s behind Acosta.
Another Acosta improvement and a 1:37.061 puts him 0.6s clear of the field.
Marc Marquez goes P2 with his first lap, +0.374 to Acosta.
Morbidelli second with his first time attack. Espargaro went fifth with his.
Martin goes third and bumps Pol to sixth.
Acosta's first time attack puts him fastest, 1:37.289. There's going to be a 1:36 soon.
Oliveira one of the first riders to do a proper time attack. Only P12 for the Pramac rider. 1:38.591.
Run-on for Binder at turn nine. He's struggling noticeably more than the other KTMs. P17 at the moment for him.
Thought this morning looked a bit better for Yamaha but they're currently 11th (Rins), 13th (Miller), 19th (Oliveira), 20th (Quartararo).
Another run-on for Bagnaia, this time at turn five. He's trying to push in braking and it just isn't working.
Run-on for Bagnaia at turn nine. Down in 15th at the moment.
Marini up to sixth with a fresh medium rear tyre.
Bezzecchi with a few moments, including a run through the gravel on the exit of the fast right-hander in the middle of the lap.
Marc Marquez on a 16-lap-old rear tyre goes back to the top. In comparison, Aldeguer's medium rear was 6-laps-old when he set his best of the session so far.
1:37.753 for Marquez.
Morbidelli up to sixth with his latest lap, and Bastianini to second and into the 1:37s.
