Marquez remains unstoppable with Hungarian GP sprint win

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Ducatis Marc Marquez led from start to finish at the Balaton Park Circuit to win his 13th sprint in 14 rounds this season for a commanding victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday to extend his championship lead to 152 points.

Marquez was joined on the podium by VR46 Racing riders Fabio Di Giannantonio and Franco Morbidelli with Luca Marini finishing fourth to give Honda a rare boost with his best sprint result for the Japanese manufacturer.

Gresini Racings Alex Marquez, second in the championship, finished eighth while Marcs teammate Francesco Bagnaia, third in the table, came a lowly 13th.

In an incident-packed opening lap, three riders crashed out in separate incidents, with Yamahas Fabio Quartararo the biggest culprit when he was involved in a chaotic collision on turn one that nearly took out several riders.

I heard somebody super close in the first corner, but from that point I just tried to take my rhythm. In the first lap already I was riding in a very good way and then I just tried to keep a constant pace, Marquez said.

I saw that was enough to open a gap. Im happy, now we need to analyse everything to understand the rear tyre for (the race) tomorrow.

LAP RECORD

Marquez, who had broken the lap record twice to claim his eighth pole of the season, had a superb launch off the line to lead into turn one but Quartararo failed to brake in time as his Yamaha torpedoed into traffic and out of the race.

Enea Bastianini had survived Quartararos rash lunge when they collided, and the Italian crashed later on lap one in an incident that also forced