Sam Lowes delivered a standout recovery ride to finish sixth in the final race at Balaton Park. The British rider started 14th on the grid but carved through the field with a series of clinical overtakes. Lowes passed Tarran Mackenzie and Alberto Surra late in the race to secure vital points. This result caps off a resilient weekend for the Marc VDS squad.
Yari Montella returned to the podium in Race Two after capitalising on early race drama. The Barni Spark rider moved into third place on the opening lap when Lorenzo Baldassarri forced Alvaro Bautista wide at turn 15. Montella maintained a steady gap to the leaders to secure his second trophy of the weekend. This result marks a significant boost for the Independent rider.
Iker Lecuona secured his ninth consecutive second place finish in a lonely Race Two at Balaton Park. The Spaniard tracked teammate Nicolo Bulega for the entire distance but could not find a way to bridge the gap. Lecuona remained within one second for ten laps before the leader pulled away. His consistent podium run keeps him second in the overall standings.
Nicolo Bulega completed a perfect weekend at Balaton Park by winning Race Two in dominant style. The Italian led every lap to secure his 16th consecutive victory across two seasons. This result confirms the best start to a WorldSBK campaign in history with 12 straight wins. Bulega finished two seconds clear of the field to extend his massive championship lead.
Miguel Oliveira was ruled out of the Hungarian WorldSBK Round after crashing at Turn 5 on lap one of the Superpole Race at Balaton Park, with Andrea Locatelli also going down in the same incident and both riders ending up in the middle of the track, triggering an immediate red flag. Oliveira had taken third in Race 1 on Saturday for BMW’s best result of the 2026 season. Race 2 will run without him.
After the Superpole Race at Balaton Park, Nicolo Bulega extended his championship lead with 16 wins from 11 race weekends across 2025 and 2026 combined. Lecuona sits second in the standings, with the gap now 86 points after the Superpole Race. Bautista, Montella and Baldassarri have emerged as the most consistent performers behind the factory Ducati pairing, with Race 2 at Balaton still to come this afternoon at 15:30 local time.
Lorenzo Baldassarri put Team GoEleven second on the grid at Balaton Park for his first ever WorldSBK front row start. The Italian then backed that up with third in the Superpole Race, giving him two of the best results of his WorldSBK career across the same weekend. Baldassarri was in the podium fight from early in Race 1 before Oliveira got clear, eventually finishing fourth. A breakthrough weekend for the GoEleven Ducati rider.
Nicolo Bulega became the Italian rider with the most victories in WorldSBK history after his Superpole Race win at Balaton Park on Sunday. Bulega won the Superpole Race from pole ahead of Lecuona, with Baldassarri third as Ducati locked out the podium. Bautista, Montella and Surra completed an all Ducati top six with Alex Lowes the top non-Ducati in seventh. The record books keep rewriting themselves every time Bulega takes the flag.
Nicolo Bulega said achieving the consecutive wins record feels like a dream, adding he is proud and hopes to continue but that he did not go into Race 1 thinking about the record, just the 25 championship points. The Italian added that to achieve all of this in just his third WorldSBK season, winning 30 races in total for an Italian brand, is simply fantastic and something he could not have imagined.
Nicolo Bulega took the Superpole Race win over Lecuona at Balaton Park, with Lorenzo Baldassarri completing an all Ducati podium. Bautista, Montella and Surra completed an all Ducati top six, with Alex Lowes the top non-Ducati in seventh. The win extends Bulega’s record streak to 15 consecutive victories, a number that was unthinkable even at the start of this season. Nobody in WorldSBK history has ever come close.