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MotoGP Hungary 2025: Balaton Park Debut

MotoGP Hungary 2025: Balaton Park Debut
Michelle Liew
August 21, 2025

MotoGP returns to Hungary after 33 years with the debut of Balaton Park. Marc Márquez arrives chasing a seventh straight win, while Francesco Bagnaia looks to rebound after Austria.

Source: Ducati Lenovo Team

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For the first time in more than three decades, the roar of MotoGP machinery will return to Hungary. The setting, however, is entirely new: Balaton Park, a modern circuit carved along the shores of Lake Balaton, steps in as the 14th round of the 2025 season.

Hungary has a long but fragmented history with top-level motorcycle racing. Between 1924 and 1931, the Hungarian TT ran near Budapest, and the Hungaroring briefly hosted the Premier Class in 1990 and 1992. But never before has the country welcomed MotoGP to a purpose-built circuit like Balaton Park. For Ducati Lenovo Team riders Marc Márquez and Francesco Bagnaia, it’s a clean slate — and a demanding one.

Márquez’s Relentless Momentum

Marc Márquez arrives in Hungary as the undisputed man of the moment. With nine wins under his belt this year — six of them consecutive — the Spaniard leads the championship on a wave of confidence. His triumph in Austria was particularly sweet, a long-awaited win at the Red Bull Ring where he’d been denied in dramatic fashion in recent years.

Still, Balaton Park is a mystery. While Márquez had a chance to familiarise himself with Ducati’s Panigale V4S earlier this month, he admits that testing on a superbike offers limited guidance for taming the full Desmosedici GP. “It’ll be a more complicated Friday than usual,” he admits, “with plenty of unknowns, not just the weather.”

Bagnaia’s Chance to Reset

For Francesco Bagnaia, the Hungarian GP offers the perfect opportunity to turn the page. Spielberg was a weekend of contradictions: promising practice sessions undone by a race that failed to deliver. Currently sitting third in the championship, Bagnaia knows he needs to steady his campaign — and quickly.

Having also turned laps at Balaton Park in recent weeks, Bagnaia hopes Ducati’s advance knowledge will pay dividends. “We’re all starting from zero here,” he says. “But compared to the Panigale, the Desmosedici GP gives us much more to explore. The challenge is to find that limit before anyone else does.”

A Fresh Stage for MotoGP

The Hungarian GP weekend begins Friday, August 22, at 10:45 a.m. local time with Free Practice 1. For Márquez, it’s another chance to extend his stranglehold on the championship. For Bagnaia, it’s about proving he can match the pace of his teammate and keep his title hopes alive.

For Hungary, though, it’s something even bigger: the start of a new chapter in MotoGP history, written on the asphalt of Balaton Park, where the past meets a very fast future.

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