Marc Marquez completed his seventh consecutive MotoGP weekend clean sweep by winning Balaton Park's first Hungarian Grand Prix, despite a suboptimal opening lap and contact with Marco Bezzecchi.
Marquez wasn't too strong off the line so left himself vulnerable to a Bezzecchi attack into Turn 1 - chopping across the Aprilia on corner entry but then going wide enough on exit to allow Bezzecchi through.
Though he entered Turn 2 behind Bezzecchi, Marquez tried to sneak past by attacking the apex - but instead hit the Aprilia and had to pick up his bike, so dropped behind Franco Morbidelli and came under further pressure from behind.
That pressure culminated in his nearest pursuer, Tech3 KTM rider Enea Bastianini, crashing on entry into the Turns 12-13 chicane and then returning to the middle of the track out of Turn 13. Thankfully, neither Bastianini nor his KTM were hit by any of the pursuing riders.
There was around a 50-50 split between the soft rear tyre and the medium rear and, having chosen the latter, Marquez quickly began to claw back ground on the soft-tyre runners.
As Bezzecchi pulled a second clear of his fellow Valentino Rossi protege Morbidelli on the fifth lap, Marquez worked his way past Morbidelli into the Turns 9-10 chicane, then needed a couple more laps to arrive at Bezzecchi's rear tyre.
Marquez first attacked at Turn 1, but went wide and allowed Bezzecchi to sweep back through. The exact same scenario played out at Turn 5, and Marquez then settled into second for another couple of laps.
Yet he finally kept the line tight enough after a Turn 1 lunge on lap 11, leaving Bezzecchi with no option to retaliate - and immediately began to streak away.
KTM rider Pedro Acosta soon reeled in Bezzecchi for second, uncorking an on-the-brakes Turn 1 move for the position, but then faced a 2.7-second gap to Marquez that he never really had any chance of closing - not least because he, too, had picked a soft rear.
They ultimately finished 4.3s apart, with Marquez's championship lead now up to 175 points.
Bezzecchi finished third, with Aprilia team-mate Jorge Martin right behind him after an impressive charge from 16th on the grid, capped off with a 22nd lap overtake on Morbidelli.
The VR46 rider then came under pressure from Luca Marini on the Honda, Marini having been compromised by needing to take avoiding action in Bastianini's incident.
When Marini launched it down the inside of Morbidelli in the Turns 9-10 chicane, Morbidelli cut the corner - so was told by race control to give up the position, which he duly did while also taking care not to let Brad Binder (KTM) through.
Marquez's factory Ducati team-mate Pecco Bagnaia capped off his brutal weekend with a messy race. Eighth after the start and set to inherit a position thanks to Fabio Quartararo's long lap, he cut Turn 15 and didn't give up enough time so picked up a long lap of his own.
Ending up behind tester Pol Espargaro after serving it, he finally overtook Espargaro on the final lap - only to go wide a few corners later and hand the position right back, ending up ninth.
Quartararo took 10th as the lead Yamaha while Trackhouse Aprilia rookie Ai Ogura got a pick-me-up result in 11th amid a poor recent run of form, as he overtook Pramac Yamaha rider Miguel Oliveira on the penultimate lap.
Alex Rins (Yamaha), Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) and Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati) completed the points. The younger Marquez crashed early on, but was able to score two points thanks to attrition - while Di Giannantonio had to pit after the warm-up lap with an issue on his primary bike, so started from the pitlane and spent much of the race riding around behind his Ducati stablemate.
Fermin Aldeguer capped off a fruitless race for Gresini by crashing while in pursuit of Morbidelli in the early stages, which will have been made extra galling by the fact that while riding around after the crash he was the only rider to dip into 1m37s besides Marquez.
In addition to Bastianini, the other riders to retire from the race were Johann Zarco (crashing under pressure from Ogura), Jack Miller (who actually fell twice before parking his Yamaha in the pits), Raul Fernandez and Joan Mir. Fernandez and Mir had fallen in quick succession at the same corner.
Results
1 Marc Marquez (Ducati)
2 Pedro Acosta (KTM)
3 Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia)
4 Jorge Martin (Aprilia)
5 Luca Marini (Honda)
6 Franco Morbidelli (VR46 Ducati)
7 Brad Binder (KTM)
8 Pol Espargaro (KTM)
9 Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati)
10 Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha)
11 Ai Ogura (Trackhouse Aprilia)
12 Miguel Oliveira (Pramac Yamaha)
13 Alex Rins (Yamaha)
14 Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati)
15 Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati)
16 Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Ducati)
DNF Johann Zarco (LCR Honda)
DNF Jack Miller (Pramac Yamaha)
DNF Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Aprilia)
DNF Joan Mir (Honda)
DNF Enea Bastianini (Tech3 KTM)
