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.
Quite a contrast inside the Ducati Lenovo box at the moment. Even Davide Tardozzi confessed his unhappiness with Bagnaia's P5 in Q1 this morning that leaves him 15th on the grid this afternoon.
It looks set to be a long race for Bagnaia and it's pretty hard to see him scoring points, really, given how tough it seems to pass in Balaton.
Marc Marquez starts from pole position for today's Sprint. It was his eighth pole of the season this morning, and he is chasing his seventh straight Sprint win this afternoon.
Welcome back to live coverage of today's MotoGP action from Balaton Park. The Sprint will be coming up in just under 30 minutes at 15:00 local time.
Marc Marquez takes pole position in Hungary.
Bezzecchi and Di Giannantonio complete the front row.
Bastianini, Morbidelli, Quartararo on row two.
Acosta, Aldeguer, Marini row three.
Mir, Alex Marquez, Espargaro row four.
Alex Marquez will start 14th tomorrow with his penalty.
A final improvement for Marquez over the line - 1:36.518 to extend his advantage over P2 Bezzecchi to 0.290s.
Pol Espargaro has gone down at turn 8 it looks like.
Big mistake for Alex Marquez coming through the long left hander before the last chicane and he doesn't improve on his latest lap. He's 11th for now.
Aldeguer only P8 with his latest lap and he runs on at turn one of the next lap, so he's done.
Quartararo goes P5 with his latest lap, just been bumped to sixth behind Bastianini and Morbidelli on row two provisionally.
Acosta improves on his second lap - P5. Di Giannantonio P3 again and into the 1:36s.
Bezzecchi over the line for his first representative lap and he goes P2 on a 1:36.808 which is 0.008s slower than his Q1 best. Solid salvage from the Italian.
Acosta 10th with his first lap, Di Giannantonio goes 37.1 to go third just behind him.
Bezzecchi makes another mistake on the first lap of his second run. He was messy out of turn four and then he runs on into the gravel at turn five. Still no lap time from him yet.
Acosta out for his second run on his spare bike now. He's behind Di Giannantonio on-track, the Italian currently P7 after his first run.
Marquez improves on his second lap, 1:36.646, that beats Bezzecchi's Q1 best by 0.154s.
Bastianini also into the 1:36s and into P2.
Mir onto the front row in third, albeit 0.593s off pole.
Marini P6 as well at the moment.
Aldeguer gets his first lap in and goes second with a 1:37.302.
Big moment for Bezzecchi in braking for the final chicane and he's through the gracel.
He's one of four riders still without a lap time along with Acosta - who has just got back to the KTM box - Aldeguer, and Quartararo.
Marquez runs off the track at turn four and that's his second lap gone. Still fastest for the moment, of course.
Marc Marquez sets the initial benchmark at a 1:36.822.
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.
Q2 is underway in Hungary. 15 minutes to battle for pole position for the first time at Balaton Park.
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.
Q2 coming up in around 5 minutes at 11:15 local time.
Bezzecchi and Di Giannantonio join:
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.
