2026 Hungarian WorldSBK Superpole Race LIVE: Bulega leads Lecuona after red flag

Onto the final lap and Lecuona has the gap at the front under a second, but still at 0.8s it's a lot to do in one lap - not completely impossible, though.

Baldassarri absolutely assured in third.

Into the final two laps now and Bulega seems to have this one under absolute control, as usual - He's still that 1.3s or so ahead of Lecuona.

Baldassarri 2s ahead of Bautista. The Spaniard's pace is improving but not to the tune of a second over Baldassarri as he'd need to catch him.

Montella and Surra behind Bautista and stretching apart, Alex Lowes closing in behind but with limited time to do anything with the last of those Ducatis.

Halfway through this shortened sprint, now, and Bulega 1.5s clear of his teammate now.

Baldassarri holding onto third place ahead of the Barni bikes by around 1.5s.

All-Ducati top-six, by the way: Bulega, Lecuona, Baldassarri, Bautista, Montella, and Surra ahead of Alex Lowes in seventh.

1.2s for Bulega at the front with five to go.

Locatelli took the first of his long laps that lap and rejoined just in front of Gerloff in eighth, was a sketchy rejoin from Locatelli.

Bulega leads by a few tenths over Lecuona aftet two laps. Baldassarri third, Locatelli still fourth having not yet taken either of his LLPs.

Bautista and Montella ready to take advantage when Locatelli takes the first of those.

Problems for Sam Lowes on that lap and he's back to 15th.

Double long lap penalty for Locatelli for causing the incident at turn five on the first start. He's running fourth at the moment.

Riders are off on their warm-up lap ahead of the restart.

Pit lane is due to open at around 11:22 local time, so around two minutes from now.

Oliveira being put into an ambulance on a stretcher. 

'All riders conscious' is the message being displayed on the world feed broadcast, but no update beyond that yet on Oliveira's condition.

The incident is also under investigation.

The restarted race will be over eight laps, so a two-lap reduction.

Oliveira being attended to on the track. His bike has been pushed off without him. 

Locatelli has ridden back to pit lane.

Red flag is out on lap one. Oliveira and Locatelli went down at turn five  and were in the middle of the track.

Bulega had just gone wide at turn five himself and was about to be outside the top-10, so a reprieve for him.

Riders are off on their warm-up lap ahead of this 10-lap Superpole Race.

The weather conditions have been quite fine all weekend and that is continuing today with 19C air temperature and 32C track temperature. Much different to last year's damp Superpole Race that saw Bulega and a few others make a blunder with tyre choice by going with the intermediates.

Bulega, of course finished that race 11th, it was his only finish off the podium last year from the races in which he reached the finish.

Nicolo Bulega extended his win streak to a record 14 races yesterday, but he is under threat this weekend from Iker Lecuona.

His results so far this weekend have been no better than what he has achieved in the past two rounds, but Leucona's pace on Friday and even in Race 1 after he cleared Surra for second has been at least a match for Bulega. 

Starting three positions further forward today could the difference maker for the Spaniard, although he made it clear yesterday that the real goal for the Superpole Race is to get a front row start for Race 2, which would make this afternoon's 21-lapper potentially his best shot yet at beating his team-mate.

Welcome to live coverage of today's WorldSBK action from Balaton Park, where the Superpole Race is due to start in just over 30 minutes at 11:10 local time.