Drama at Turn 1 meant the race was wide open, Luca Marini and Joan Mir quickly inserting themselves right into the mix for the podium battle. Marini walked away with his equal best Honda result in fifth place while Mir fell after contact with another rider.
Drama at Turn 1 meant the race was wide open, Luca Marini and Joan Mir quickly inserting themselves right into the mix for the podium battle. Marini walked away with his equal best Honda result in fifth place while Mir fell after contact with another rider.
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Sunday, 7th June 2026 |
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| Hungarian Grand Prix, Balaton Park Circuit |
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Equal best Honda result for Marini after wild Turn 1 in Hungary |
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| Drama at Turn 1 meant the race was wide open, Luca Marini and Joan Mir quickly inserting themselves right into the mix for the podium battle. Marini walked away with his equal best Honda result in fifth place while Mir fell after contact with another rider. |
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The only thing hotter than the conditions in Hungary was the action into Turn 1 as the lights went out and a multiple rider crash sent many of the race favourites down. Taking avoiding action, both Honda HRC Castrol riders escaped any damage and were instantly promoted into the mix for the podium.
Luca Marini’s trademark cool primed him to take advantage of the early drama of others, the Italian locking in and chasing down Jack Miller in the opening laps. By mid-race, the Italian was through and set his sights on closing down the sizable gap to Bagnaia in third, able to slowly chip away. Attentions would soon turn to a fast-approaching Ai Ogura who was hot on the heels of Marini in the closing stages of the race. Eventually getting past, Marini managed to equal his best result as a Honda HRC rider in fifth place.
An important result which moves the #10 to just seven points behind Aldeguer and a top ten position in the World Championship. This is Marini's third fifth place result on the Honda RC213V.
Like his Honda HRC Castrol teammate, Joan Mir was a benefactor of the misfortune of others and found himself well inside the top ten. Chasing down his fellow Honda riders, an incident with Enea Bastianini unsettled the #36 who managed to regroup. Unfortunately, there was more damage than expected and a strange fall would end Mir’s race as he was sitting comfortably in eighth just behind Honda LCR rider Diogo Moreira. He was unharmed in the fall.
After two busy back-to-back races in Mugello and Balaton Park, the Honda HRC Castrol team will now have some brief respite before another double-header in Brno and Assen arrive.
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| Luca Marini 10 |
| Honda HRC Castrol |
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“This was another dramatic race, always you risk a lot into Turn 1 and fortunately this time I was able to gain something – I hope all the other riders are OK. Overnight we made some setup changes which improved the bike and our race was good, of course we were helped by the situation at the start to gain some positions, but I think we could have made up some ground anyway. I tried everything I could to get back past Ogura at the end, but I couldn’t quite manage it. Still some good points in the championship overall so we must focus on this and come back strong in the next two races.”
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| Joan Mir 36 |
| Honda HRC Castrol |
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“What a race! I think my footpeg got damaged when I had the contact with Enea but we need to check the exact cause. I was comfortable behind Diogo managing the front tyre pressure, so it came as a bit of a surprise. It’s a shame because I think today there was the possibility obviously to get a really nice result after all of the drama at the start of the race. I am OK which is the most important. The good point of the weekend is that we were able to confirm a couple of points from the past that we had some doubts about with the setup so we can now enter the second half of the year with a clearer idea about a few things.”
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