Marc Marquez, 2025 MotoGP Hungarian Grand Prix, Sprint. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Marc Marquez, 2025 MotoGP Hungarian Grand Prix, Sprint. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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2025 Hungarian MotoGP LIVE UPDATES!

Live coverage of the 2025 Hungarian MotoGP race from Balaton Park.

24 Aug 2025
13:17
Lap 9/26

Bezzecchi continues to lead. Acosta now 1.5s off the lead. 

Marquez is much faster but making  a pass here is difficult even for him, it seems.

13:15

All the battling is bringing Acosta closer. He's only 1.4s behind Marquez now.

13:15
Another failed pass

Marquez tries again at turn five but he runs wide again and Bezzecchi maintains the lead.

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13:14

Marquez makes his move to the front at turn one but runs wide and Bezzecchi keeps the lead.

13:14
Lap 7/26

Marquez now all over Bezzecchi.

Acosta passed Morbidelli at turn nine that lap for third. Good ride so far from Acosta but he's 2s off the lead.

13:11

Fastest lap of the race for Marquez on lap five even with that pass included. 0.5s faster than Bezzecchi that time.

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13:10
Marquez P2

Marc Marquez up to P2 on lap 5 at turn nine. 1s up to Bezzecchi.

13:09
Lap 4/26

Almost a second now for Bezzecchi over Morbidelli. 3 fastest laps in a row for the Aprilia rider.

Raul Fernandez and Joan Mir went down at turn five that time. Separate accidents. Fernandez has remounted.

Quartararo has taken his long lap penalty and has rejoined in 13th behind Miller.

13:08
Lap 3/26

Bezzecchi leads by 0.7s from Morbidelli, then Marquez.

Good start for Martin as well. He's up to sixth past Marini on that lap. Medium rear as well for Martin.

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13:06

Bagnaia had made a good start and was eighth, but he's dropped to ninth from avoiding Bastianini. He should regain that position when Quartararo, in 8th, takes his LLP.

13:05
Alex Marquez crash

Crash for Alex Marquez at turn one. He's back on but at the back of the field now.

13:04
Lap 1/26

Bezzecchi leads the opening lap from Morbidelli and Marquez.

Bastianini crashed in the third of the chicanes. He and his bike crossed back in to the track but fortunately everyone avoided him. He was fourth when he crashed.

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13:02
Di Giannantonio

Di Giannantonio has taken his second bike for the start, obviously haven't been able to sort that issue on his number one bike for the start.

13:00
Warm-up lap

Riders are off on their warm-up lap ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix. 26 laps of Balaton Park coming up.

12:57
Tyres & conditions

Some mix on tyre choice. Everyone with medium front tyre but a split on rear tyre compound.

Bezzecchi, Di Giannantonio, Bastianini, Morbidelli, Acosta, Espargaro, Binder, Alex Marquez, Zarco, Rins, and Ogura on soft rear tyre,

Marc Marquez, Quartararo, Aldeguer, Marini, Mir, Bagnaia, Fernandez, Martin, Miller, and Oliveira on medium rear tyre. Aldeguer a late switcher to that compound.

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12:54
Di Giannantonio

Di Giannantonio has been told that his second bike will be ready if he needs it after the warm-up lap. Not 100% sure at VR46 that they've got the issue fixed.

12:52
Aldeguer & Acosta

If Fermin Alddeguer was on the front row, he would be a shoe-in for the podium. Or, if this race was at Phillip Island or Sepang, or somewhere else where overtaking is feasible, he would be a decent shout for the rostrum as well.

But in Balaton, from eighth, he is likely to struggle to make the top-five.

Of course, if he has the same kind of late pace he had last week he might be able to take advantage of that, but tyre fall off here is not especially dramatic because of the short corners and largely straight braking and acceleration zones.

The Spaniard starts alongside his compatriot, Pedro Acosta, on the third row. Acosta was strong on Friday but blew his weekend in qualifying when he crashed and ended up seventh. He also wrecked his only set of a new WP fork available to him this weekend in the crash and has had to revert to the standard fork for yesterday's Sprint and today's race.

He crashed again in the Sprint trying to pass Jorge Martin, so will be hoping to at least see the chequered flag today.

12:48
Di Giannantonio issue

Looks like there's been a problem for Fabio Di Giannantonio on the sighting lap. The VR46 team are trying to fix it as Di Giannantonio just sits helplessly by the pit wall. Not sure exactly what the problem is.

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12:47
Bagnaia's struggles

Francesco Bagnaia has not particularly excelled at any point this year in the same way he did in 2022, 2023, or 2024.

But in Hungary his problems have been deeper than at any other moment in 2025. The Italian starts 13th today thanks to Marquez and Miller's grid penalties, and finished 13th from 15th yesterday. 

Not an easy race coming up for the Italian, who would surely see a finish inside the top-10 as a kind of salvage.

12:43
Penalties

Several riders with penalties today.

Alex Marquez has a three-place grid penalty for riding slowly on the line in Practice and will start 14th.

Jack Miller has the same penalty for the same offence. He starts 17th.

Fabio Quartararo has a long lap penalty for causing the turn one crash yesterday.

Enea Bastianini has a double long lap penalty for taking out Johann Zarco in the Sprint.

The full grid for today's race can be viewed here.

12:40
Sighting lap

Riders have completed their sighting lap and are formed up on the grid now. About 20 minutes until lights out.

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12:36
Can Marc Marquez make it 7 in a row?

Marc Marquez is aiming for his seventh grand prix win in a row today having scored his seventh straight Sprint win yesterday.

He starts from pole position and has been in command all weekend, even avoiding the turn one incident yesterday.

Only Fermin Aldeguer perhaps has the pace to go with Marquez late on, but where Marquez starts on pole Aldeguer starts from the third row in eighth.

12:31

Welcome to live coverage of today's Hungarian MotoGP. The race is coming up in just under 30 minutes at 14:00 local time.

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