Marc Marquez wins the Hungarian Grand Prix as his championship rivals fail to finish inside the top eight

It was the first Hungarian Grand Prix since 1992 and the first under the MotoGP banner. Marc Marquez started from pole position ahead of Marco Bezzecchi in second and Fabio Di Giannantonio in third. Fabio Quartararo who stared in sixth had a long lap penalty for causing a collision at the opening corner of the Tissot Sprint. Enea Bastianini had a double long lap penalty for causing a collision with Johann Zarco in the Tissot Sprint. Francesco Bagnaia was having a torrid weekend, but was promoted up to 13th on the grid due to Alex Marquez and Jack Miller receiving a three-place grid drop for impeding Pecco Bagnaia in Practice.

On the warm-up lap Di Giannantonio came into the pits to change bikes, having a problem with his number one bike.

The lights went out and it was Bezzecchi who lead out of the first corner with Marquez in second but he hit the back of Bezzecchi into turn two and that allowed Franky Morbidelli to move into second place. Luca Marini was fourth. Bastianini then overtook Marini in turn five, but the Italian lost the front at turn 12. Alex Marquez then crashed at turn one on the second lap.

Bagnaia had a good start moving into seventh in the opening sector but dropped to ninth after lap two.

Jorge Martin was making progress overtaking Marini at turn nine to move into sixth place. Pedro Acosta was in fourth place 0.9 seconds behind Marquez with Fermin Aldeguer keeping him company.

On lap three Joan Mir and Raul Fernandez both lost the front at turn five, Fernandez went down first and Mir crashed in sympathy. Quartararo also took his long lap penalty and dropped from eighth to eleventh.

On lap four Marquez block passed Morbidelli into turn nine to move into second place. At the start of lap five Miller went down.

On lap five Marquez began to close in Bezzecchi as Acosta closed on the back of Morbidelli. On lap six Acosta made the move at turn nine, a carbon copy of Marquez’s move.

Marquez made the move into turn one but he ran wide and Bezzecchi held the lead, Marquez then tried into turn five and he was wide again, this allowed Acosta to close in by a few tenths.

On lap 11 Marquez made the move stick into turn one and Bezzecchi was unable to respond.

On lap 12 Bagnaia cut turn 15 and was given a long lap penalty and he dropped from seventh to ninth. On lap 14 Aldeguer lost the front at turn one out of fifth place.

Bezzecchi ran wide into turn 15 but he blocked Acosta out of 16, the Shark was able to slipstream the Italian and block pass the Aprilia rider into turn one and was into second place.

Miller’s weekend from bad to worse suffering a second crash, this time at turn 11.

On lap 21 Zarco lost the front at turn eight and was out of 12th place.

Morbidelli was beginning to struggle at the end of the race and Martin was able to pounce at turn five to move into fourth place from 16th on the grid.

Marini was closing in on his fellow VR46 Academy rider Morbidelli and looked at a pass at turn nine but the pair made contact and Morbidelli cut the chicane. Morbidelli was told to drop a position and he dropped it at turn 11 on the following lap.

On the final lap Pecco was able to overtake Pol Espargaro into turn one on the final lap for eighth, but the Italian ran wide at turn five and dropped behind ninth.

Marquez crossed the line to make it 14 race wins in a row, Acosta was second with Bezzecchi rounding out the podium. Martin finished in fourth, his best finish of the season. Marini was fifth with Morbidelli in sixth, Brad Binder was seventh with Espargaro in eighth, Bagnaia in ninth and Quartararo rounded out the top ten.

Marc Marquez extended his championship lead by 23 points over Alex Marquez to be 175 points in the lead of the championship with 296 points avaliable in the remaining eight rounds.

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