10:19
Marc Marquez sets the initial benchmark at a 1:36.822.
Marc Marquez, 2025 MotoGP Hungarian Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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2025 Hungarian MotoGP: Sprint LIVE UPDATES
Live coverage of Sprint from the Hungarian MotoGP at Balaton Park.
Qualifying for the 2025 Hungarian MotoGP is set to get underway at 10:50 local time. The Sprint will be coming up later this afternoon at 15:00 local time.
Pedro Acosta was the fastest rider on Friday, beating Marc Marquez by 0.006s despite a late crash at turn two.
Marquez overturned that on Saturday morning to take his eighth pole of the 2025 season so far.
Acosta, in comparison, under-performed in qualifying, taking seventh after a crash on his first Q2 run.
Marco Bezzecchi and Fabio Di Giannantonio both came through Q2 to qualify on the front row - Bezzecchi second and Di Giannantonio third.
Enea Bastianini is the best of the KTMs in fourth; Fabio Quartararo is the best Yamaha in sixth and the only one in the top-10. The best Honda on the grid is Luca Marini in ninth, while Joan Mir is 10th.
Francesco Bagnaia continued to struggle in qualifying and was only fifth-fastest in Q1. He will start 15th this afternoon.
Alex Marquez also had a difficult qualifying and will start 11th. He has a 55-point lead over Bagnaia in the battle for second in the standings, and is 142 points behind Marc Marquez.
23 Aug 2025
10:18
Pedro Acosta has crashed on his opening lap. He's running to find a way back to the pits. He's dropped it at turn eight, more or less the only fast corner on the track.
10:15
Q2 start
Q2 is underway in Hungary. 15 minutes to battle for pole position for the first time at Balaton Park.
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10:12
Worth noting that Alex Marquez will start three places lower than wherever he qualifies in Q2 as a result of a grid penalty from PR yesterday.
The same is true for Jack Miller, who will start 17th tomorrow after qualifying 14th.
The grid penalties won't affect this afternoon's Sprint.
10:11
Q2 coming up in around 5 minutes at 11:15 local time.
Bezzecchi and Di Giannantonio join:
- Pedro Acosta
- Marc Marquez
- Alex Marquez
- Fermin Aldeguer
- Enea Bastianini
- Franco Morbidelli
- Joan Mir
- Pol Espargaro
- Luca Marini
- Fabio Quartararo
10:07
Bezzecchi tops Q1
Marco Bezzecchi tops Q1, Fabio Di Giannantonio moves through to Q2 with him.
Binder P3 from Miller and Bagnaia; then Fernandez, Martin and Zarco.
Oliveira, Rins, and Ogura will start on the back row.
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10:06
Di Giannantonio over the line for the final time and goes P2. He equals Binder to the thousandth-of-a-second but his second best time is better than Binder's and that gets him the final Q2 spot.
10:05
Martin over the line and only P7.
10:04
Bagnaia tried for one more lap but he ran on at turn five.
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10:04
Bezzecchi improves further to a 1:36.800.
Di Giannantonio improves but only to third on the VR46 Ducati.
Binder finds improvements as well and gets up to P2 on a 1:37.047.
10:03
Bagnaia runs on at the 12-13 chicane and that's another lap gone.
10:02
Miller bumps Bagnaia out, P2 for the Pramac rider with a 1:37.079.
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10:02
Martin improves but only third and 0.4s behind his teammate Bezzecchi.
10:00
Decent first half of the lap from Bagnaia on his latest attempt, the first of his second run, and he gets to P2 on a 1:37.096.
09:57
8:30 on the clock and Bagnaia heads out for his second run of Q1. He's the only rider without a time on the board.
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09:56
Martin to the top on a 1:37.715 but he missed a chicane or two on that lap.
Bezzecchi behind him into the 1:36s, the fastest lap of the weekend so far.
Binder P2 on a 1:37.6, 0.6s behind Bezzecchi.
Bagnaia aborted his second lap after missing the 12-13 chicane. He's back in the pits with no time on the board.
09:54
Di Giannantonio with the early benchmark at a 1:37.773 but that's slower than he did in FP2 by 0.3s.
09:53
Bezzecchi has his first lap cancelled for cutting the last chicane.
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09:53
And Bagnaia runs on through the turn 9-10 chicane. Martin behind him has also bailed out of his first lap.
09:52
Bagnaia already running wide into turn one, getting a shake of the head from Davide Tardozzi in the Ducati box.
09:50
Q1 start
Pit lane is open in Balaton and we are underway for Q1.
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09:49
Hungarian MotoGP FP2 Results
09:47
Q1 riders
The Q1 contenders who will be on-track in just under 5 minutes for the first qualifying session to try to get one of the two Q2 spots are:
- Jorge Martin
- Marco Bezzecchi
- Fabio Di Giannantonio
- Francesco Bagnaia
- Brad Binder
- Ai Ogura
- Jack Miller
- Miguel Oliveira
- Raul Fernandez
- Johann Zarco
- Alex Rins
09:43
Marc Marquez tops FP2
Marc Marquez ends FP2 fastest. Pedro Acosta and Fabio Di Giannantonio complete the top-three.
Fermin Aldeguer strong again in fourth, ahead of Marco Bezzecchi who has maybe found something again on the Aprilia overnight to get in the top-five this morning.
Bastianini, Mir, Binder, Alex Marquez, and Martin complete the top-10.
Q1 coming up in just under 10 minutes.
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09:36
Just under 5 minutes remaining in FP2 this morning. Marc Marquez has just gone fastest ahead of Fabio Di Giannantonio. Pedro Acosta currently runs third.
