Marquez kept the same tyres throughout the 45 minutes.<\/p>\n
Luca Marini <\/a>was the top Honda in eighth, just ahead of world championship leader Marco Bezzecchi<\/a> in ninth. Aprilia team-mate and title rival Jorge Martin<\/a> was twelfth.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Toprak Razgatlioglu <\/a>clipped the back of Ai Ogura in the opening minutes, before rising as high as fourth at a track he enjoys after dominating in WorldSBK last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Razgatlioglu finished FP1 in tenth, as the top Yamaha rider. Iker Lecuona, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP.<\/p>\n \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n Alex Marquez and Johann Zarco remain absent due to injuries sustained in Catalunya last month.<\/p>\n Despite retiring at half-distance with a muscle tear in Mugello, Cal Crutchlow<\/a> is replacing Zarco for a second weekend at LCR Honda, while Gresini has called up WorldSBK rider Iker Lecuona<\/a> for a Ducati MotoGP debut.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Lecuona was a full-time MotoGP rider with Tech3 KTM in 2020 and 2021, taking a best result of sixth, but didn\u2019t score during seven replacement MotoGP appearances for Honda.<\/p>\n Unlike Crutchlow, Lecuona knows the Balaton Park circuit from WorldSBK, where he is currently second to Aruba.it Ducati team-mate Nicolo Bulega.<\/p>\n Cal Crutchlow, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP.<\/p>\n \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n 2026 Hungarian MotoGP, Balaton Park – Free Practice (1) ResultsPosRiderNatTeamTime\/DiffLapMax1Marc MarquezSPADucati Lenovo (GP26)1’38.626s12\/19297k2Raul FernandezSPATrackhouse Aprilia (RS-GP26)+0.169s17\/19293k3Pedro AcostaSPARed Bull KTM (RC16)+0.298s12\/18295k4Fermin AldeguerSPABK8 Gresini Ducati (GP25)+0.472s17\/17297k5Fabio Di GiannantonioITAPertamina VR46 Ducati (GP26)+0.532s17\/20298k6Francesco BagnaiaITADucati Lenovo (GP26)+0.615s15\/17298k7Ai OguraJPNTrackhouse Aprilia (RS-GP26)+0.639s17\/19298k8Luca MariniITAHonda HRC Castrol (RC213V)+0.726s16\/20299k9Marco BezzecchiITAAprilia Racing (RS-GP26)+0.742s17\/19298k10Toprak RazgatliogluTURPramac Yamaha (YZR-M1)*+0.772s18\/19290k11Fabio QuartararoFRAMonster Yamaha (YZR-M1)+0.823s19\/19289k12Jorge MartinSPAAprilia Racing (RS-GP26)+60.928s19\/19298k13Diogo MoreiraBRAPro Honda LCR (RC213V)*+0.964s18\/18295k14Maverick Vi\u00f1alesSPARed Bull KTM Tech3 (RC16)+1.154s20\/22295k15Joan MirSPAHonda HRC Castrol (RC213V)+1.192s15\/18297k16Franco MorbidelliITAPertamina VR46 Ducati (GP25)+1.200s17\/17293k17Brad BinderRSARed Bull KTM (RC16)+1.269s14\/18298k18Enea BastianiniITARed Bull KTM Tech3 (RC16)+1.357s17\/17298k19Jack MillerAUSPramac Yamaha (YZR-M1)+1.407s16\/18292k20Alex RinsSPAMonster Yamaha (YZR-M1)+1.854s12\/17291k21Iker LecuonaSPABK8 Gresini Ducati (GP26)+2.036s19\/20294k22Cal CrutchlowGBRCastrol Honda LCR (RC213V)+3.578s17\/18293k<\/p>\n * Rookie<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Official Balaton Park MotoGP Records:<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP NewsletterBest lap: Marc Marquez, Ducati, 1m 36.518s (2025)Fastest race lap: Marc Marquez, Ducati, 1m 37.699s (2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez – who dismissed his victory chances on Thursday – starts the Balaton Park MotoGP weekend on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,340873,15118,16230,7607,9398,5744,4280,10732,806,805,803,804,10734,85],"class_list":["post-716889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cal-crutchlow","tag-fabio-di-giannantonio","tag-fabio-quartararo","tag-francesco-bagnaia","tag-joan-mir","tag-jorge-martin","tag-marc-marquez","tag-marco-bezzecchi","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-pedro-acosta","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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