MARC MARQUEZ WINS 14TH RACE IN A ROW IN MOTOGP
Marc Marquez has won the Hungarian Grand Prix at the brand-new Balaton Park circuit starting from pole position, his eighth pole this season.
The initial drama happened at the start with Fabio di Giannantonio having to replace his bike due to an alarm on his dash, therefore he had to start from the pitlane.
The 3rd place at the first row was left empty on the grid, giving more room to Marc Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi to fight for the first place going into turn 1. Marco Bezzecchi did start very well and was wheel-to-wheel with the Spaniard from the Ducati in the first chicane, and managed to get the lead. Marquez was overtaken by Franco Morbidelli as well after turn 2. Bezzecchi and Marquez made contact into turn 2 and both had very slight damages on their bikes.
The first lap was quite caotic, as Enea Bastianini crashed into turn 7 and was almost ran over by other riders, almost risking his life on the track.
Enea later got back on his bike but got involved in a crash with Jack Miller on the last sector.
In the meantime, Jorge Martin and Pecco Bagnaia did wonderful starts, the Aprilia went from P16 to P6 on lap 1, whilst the Ducati went from P14 to P9.
Alex Marquez also crashed when opening the lap 2 and made his life difficult on the championship fight, losing further points to his brother.
Within the first 5 laps, Marquez was already attacking Morbidelli to get the P2 back from the VR46 rider, and he made it stick, showing how his pace was way superior than the rest of the field.
Arriving into lap 10, Marc was already behind Bezzecchi, looking forward to overtake the Italian to regain the lead. It took only 2 laps of switchbacks between the two of them for Marc Marquez to get P1 back.
Marc quickly opened up a big gap to Bezzecchi, and soon the worry for the Italian was Pedro Acosta, who was catching the Italian quickly for the second place.
On lap 16, Marco Bezzecchi made a mistake on lap 15, which allowed the little shark Acosta to get through on P2. The gap was already 2.7s to Marc Marquez, who was quite far to catch.
Jorge Martin was charging up through the field and got P4 towards the final part of the race, 12 positions gained magicly throughout the race meant the champion finally got his confidence back with the bike, after a nightmare season fulfilled of injuries.
On the last lap, Pecco Bagnaia managed to overtake Pol Espargaro for the eighth position, but the Italian left the track due to a mistake slightly after that, and lost the position again to Pol Espargaro.
Marc Marquez has won the Hungarian Grand Prix, the 14th win in a row counting sprint races. Pedro Acosta and Marco Bezzecchi closing the podium.
The Ducati rider extends the championship lead to his brother to 175 points, and Bagnaia is over 220 points behind. If Marc keeps the perfect score at Barcelona and Misano, and his brother does not score at least 28 points in both weekends, Marc will win his 9th championship with six spare races. Will the Spaniard make it?
The riders will get to Catalunya in two weeks time.
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