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MotoGP | Round 14 - Hungarian GP 2025 | Friday 22 August 2025

Marc Márquez and the Ducati Lenovo Team second on opening day at Balaton Park. Fourteenth place for Francesco Bagnaia

The Ducati Lenovo Team made its official debut at the Balaton Park, the circuit hosting this weekend the Grand Prix of Hungary. Marc Márquez wrapped up Practice in second place, with Francesco Bagnaia fourteenth at the end of the afternoon session.

Márquez stayed in the top positions while showing an excellent pace aboard his Desmosedici GP machine. After leading FP1, he ended up only 0.6secs shy of the afternoon’s quickest lap-time. Bagnaia, on the other hand, had a more challenging time in finding his rhythm on the Hungarian track. Despite a consistent improvement throughout the day, he could not finish higher than fourteenth and will therefore take part in tomorrow morning’s Q1.

The Ducati Lenovo Team will resume proceedings tomorrow morning at 10:10 local time (GMT +2) for Free Practice 2, which will be followed by Q1 (10:50) and Q2 (11:15). The fourteenth Sprint of 2025 will be contested over 13 laps from 15:00.

Marc Márquez (#93 Ducati Lenovo Team) – 2nd
“The pace is good and as always, the feeling with used tyres is better than with fresh ones. We’ll try to make further progress tomorrow because this is a very, very different track, where other bikes are able to corner very tightly – and this is very important. We have a very complete bike but we must keep working on some details, especially with regards to changing direction in the chicanes. In any case, I’m happy with how today went and we now aim at a spot on the first two rows, which will be key given how hard it is to overtake at this track.”

Francesco Bagnaia (#63 Ducati Lenovo Team) – 14th
“It wasn’t the best day I could have faced. After the test with the Panigale, I knew I would have struggled here as this is a circuit that features all the types of corners where we have struggled so far this year, meaning those that require heavy braking, leaning while still braking, and then turning the bike in the last part of the corner. We knew it would have been tough and so it was, but we must look at the positive side, as I halved the gap with first position throughout the day. I’ll have one more session available tomorrow in order to make further progress.”