Marc Márquez has returned in style at the Hungarian GP. The Spanish driver, who reappeared in Mugello a week ago after his double operation, has shown that he has the speed and determination to continue at the top. After this GP there is no doubt that Marc will be there for a while and it gives the feeling, although only he knows that, that the most complicated shoulder problems are either solved or close to being so.
And to this we must add that races are races and, therefore, unpredictable. So if we add Marc’s good performance with the rest of the things that have happened this weekend, the conclusion is that anything can be possible and that, of course, Marc is a candidate for the title as is Pedro Acosta, who has shone in Hungary.
Speed, rhythm and desire, Marc has it all
Since Friday, the sensations that Marc was transmitting in Hungary were very different from those of the rest of the previous GPs. After being fastest in FP1, going straight to Q2, leading FP2 and taking pole, Marc was expected to be competitive. The question was how he would endure on a physical level and, also, if Pedro Acosta had something in store for the rest of the GP.
WE ARE GOOO in the #TissotSprint 🚥
Brilliant start by @marcmarquez93 💨#HungarianGP 🇭🇺 pic.twitter.com/GrTkRTfbNe
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) June 6, 2026
The first issue was soon resolved and that is that Marc did not come out to preserve but to set the tone himself and no matter how much Acosta tried, he could not withstand Márquez who little by little distanced himself from the Murcian. Even so, the distance was not exaggerated and Pedro, with an obviously less competitive KTM, managed to get oil by getting on the podium in second position behind Marc.
Third place in the Sprint was “sold” more expensively with Marco Bezzecchi, who had not had the best performance of the year but who went from sixth to third place at the start, enduring the challenges of Fermín Aldeguer who had to throw in the towel after a scare in one of the chicanes on the Hungarian track. That scare not only left Aldeguer without the podium, which Bezzecchi took, but Raúl Fernández managed to surpass him and reach fourth place with the Ducati rider fifth.
HOW DID @aldeguer54 SAVE THAT? 🤯#HungarianGP 🇭🇺 pic.twitter.com/S5dLD5l61s
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) June 6, 2026
Martín, Moreira, Bastianini and Bagnaia closed the points positions from which one of the championship contenders was left out: Fabio Di Giannantonio.
Only Marc has entered his name in the modern era of the Hungarian GP
On Sunday, given what was seen on Saturday, a new duel between Marc and Acosta was expected. At long distances, Marc’s physique could suffer a little more and despite the mechanical superiority of the Ducati, it was expected that the forces would be more equal. And it was just like that.
What no one expected is that five protagonists of the championship and the Hungarian GP itself were left out of the race in the first corner. The bend at the end of the straight, which in turn is turn one of a type of chicane and a dangerous funnel, was once again witness to a multiple accident after the start.
This is what happened at the start 🤯#HungarianGP 🇭🇺 pic.twitter.com/GDHW3za8vI
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) June 7, 2026
As if it were a repetition of what was experienced at the 2025 Japanese GP, Jorge Martín lost control of his Aprilia RS-GP while braking and collided with his teammate, Marco Bezzecchi. But the scam went further, because their motorcycles also took Fernández, Aldeguer and Di Giannantonio. Fortunately, none of them suffered serious damage and even Di Giannantonio was able to resume his march. That does not mean that Martín has been sanctioned with a double “long-lap” for the Czech GP and, in addition, has suffered a public slap on the wrist from Massimo Rivola and other drivers involved.
In any case, what is evident is that the fall that did not take either Marc or Pedro but could have taken them perfectly, left the two alone and distanced from the rest of the group. Acosta, who chose the soft rear tire over Marc’s medium, took advantage of the second lap to overtake the Ducati rider, who even lost more than a second on the Murcian before starting to cut time.
We had to wait until mid-race for Marc to catch up with Pedro and then a beautiful and tough battle began between the two that, in the end, Marc won. After passing the KTM rider, Márquez began to gain an advantage that allowed him to score in the Hungarian GP his 100th victory since he arrived in the World Championship and, also, Ducati’s 100th in MotoGP. Furthermore, as if that were not enough, Márquez achieved that no other driver has won anything or scored pole at Balaton Park in the two editions of the Hungarian GP held there.
WOAAAAAH
BIG CONTACT BETWEEN @37_pedroacosta and @marcmarquez93 ⚔️#HungarianGP 🇭🇺 pic.twitter.com/hsw0vLlZXy
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) June 7, 2026
After Acosta but without any option to fight, Pecco Bagnaia crossed the finish line, adding his second consecutive podium. Also finishing fourth again was Ai Ogura, who once again came back with overtakes as incisive as the ones he has been making lately. The top5 was completed by Luca Marini, who was the best Honda after the fall of Joan Mir.
Then two positive surprises. On the one hand Diogo Moreira, who is strengthening his rhythm and speed GP by GP and, then, Iker Lecuona. The Spaniard crossed the finish line in seventh position in his first race as a substitute for Álex Márquez, after a great weekend in which he had to adapt on the track to a bike and tires that he did not know. Surely in the paddock besides Marc there was no other driver happier at the end of the GP. And Iker left Miller, Bastianini, Binder and Razgatlioglu behind, with whom he fought face to face.
After the turbulent Hungarian GP it is time to take a breath and stop two weeks before Brno hosts the Czech Republic GP. Marc achieved the double there last year, so it is a track where he can once again make the difference. The question is, has the comeback begun or is what we have seen in Balaton circumstantial? In two weeks we will know.
