The inaugural race on the Balaton Park Circuit noticed six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez noticed clinch his tenth victory of the season. F1Technical’s senior author Balazs Szabo delivers some key details and numbers from the Grand Prix of Hungary.
4.314s – That was the margin separating race winner Marc Marquez and second-placed Pedro Acosta. The Spaniard overtook Marco Bezzecchi on Lap 16 to take over second place, and he was 2.8s away from the championship chief at that time.
Though he managed to fractionally cut back the hole initially, he was unable to maintain up with Marquez within the dying levels of the 26-lap race.
4.404s – Whereas the rostrum finishers had been separated by a number of seconds as they crossed the end line, there was a detailed battle behind them. Jorge Martin, who secured his finest end result for Aprilia on the Balaton Park Circuit was solely 4.404s forward of tenth-placed Fabio Quartararo because the chequered flag fell after 26 lap of racing.
Nice comeback – Pedro Acosta displayed eye-catching tempo within the early levels of the Balaton weekend. Nevertheless, issues received difficult for the KTM manufacturing facility rider on Saturday when he suffered an enormous crash in qualifying and completed final within the Dash following one other go to into the gravel entice.
The Spaniard then received a terrific begin at Sunday’s Balaton race to seek out himself fourth on the finish of the opening lap. Having overtaking Franco Morbidelli and Marco Bezzecchi in a while, he finishes second, recording his finest MotoGP end result since he was additionally second in Indonesia final 12 months. His end result marked his seventh MotoGP podium and his second of th season together with Brno.
Constructive weekend – Scorching on the heels of his spectacular end result on Saturday, Luca Marini completed fifth at Sunday’s Grand Prix of Hungary. This marked the most effective Marini’s finest end result since having joined Honda final 12 months in addition to his finest resut since he was thid in Qatar.
Worst end result – Francesco Bagnaia endured a troublesome weekend on the Balaton Park Circuit. The 2-time MotoGP champion completed ninth on the Hungarian observe, recording his second-worst end result to date this season after France when he completed in P16.
The Turin-born rider finds himself in third place within the drivers’ standings, however the hole to his team-mate Marc Marquez has grown to 228 factors after the 14th spherical of the season.
Exterior the highest ten – Alex Marquez began the race from P14 on the grid after serving a grid drop penalty. The Spanish rider’s weekend then received even worse after crashing within the early levels of the 26-lap race. Though he was in a position to rejoin the motion, he completed down in P14 which is finest worst end result throughout the road to date this 12 months.
Regardless of his robust weekend on the brand-new Balaton Park, Alex Marquez managed to cling on to his second place within the drivers’ standings, however he’s now a whopping 175 factors behind his brother Marc.
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