Marc Marquez, 2025 MotoGP Hungarian Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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
10:06

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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09:47
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.

09:34

Welcome to live coverage of today's MotoGP action from Balaton Park. Qualifying is set to get underway in around 15 minutes at 10:50 local time.

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