Major development tipped for Hungary MotoGP track

Reports suggest Balaton Park will see MotoGP bi♌kes for firs🐎t time in June

Balaton Park Circuit, Hungary, joins 2025 MotoGP and WorldSBK calendars
Balaton Park Circuit, Hungary, joins 2025 MotoGP and WorldSBK calendars

The new Balaton Park circuit, which will host the 2025 MotoGP Hungarian Grand Prix, is set to stage a test in June prior to its premier c🥃lass race debut.

The Hungarian GP was due to return to the calendar last year at the Balaton Park track, but was struck from the calendar owing to the facility not being ready in time to host MotoGP.

It was also set to stage a round of the World Superbike Championship, with that scr🗹ubbed for the same reason.

Balaton Park is set to make its Moto꧙GP debut on the weekend of 22-24 August, with the circuit undergoing numerous layout modifica👍tions to make it safer.

World Superbikes is due to stagꦏe its Hungarian round at the venue a month prior, 🙈on the weekend of 25-27 July.

However, according to Italian publication GPOne, MotoGP will complete its first laps at Ba꧃laton Park in June with a test day.

💞Though no date hඣas been confirmed, the day of running will be open to test riders to allow the manufacturers and Michelin to better prepare for the Hungarian GP in August.

It’s not clear how concession regulations will apply in this scenario, as the current rules st♈ate that ♛Yamaha and Honda are able to test with its race riders during a season.

The rules state D rank concession manufacturers - in this case Yamaha and Honda - are not allowed to test at an circuit on the calendar within two weeks of a grand prix taking place at that ven🐟ue.

In this scenario, Yamaha and Honda would be within the regulations to field 𝔉i🏅ts race riders.

MotoGP has only 🌠raced in Hungary twice, in 1990 and 1992, at th🥀e Hungaroring.

Honda won the first editio💯n in 199ꦅ0 with Mick Doohan, while Eddie Lawson took his Cagiva to the top step of the podium in 1992.

MotoGP attempted to return to Hungary i🐬n 2010 at the Balatonring, though financ🎶ial problems during the construction of the venue meant it never took place.

The series replaced it with another Spanish round at Aragon, which has been a mainst🔯ay on the calendar - 2023 aside - ever since.

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