A big dilemma for the top three order in Val Khorounzhiy's Hungarian Grand Prix MotoGP rider rankings - and unsurprisingly the first corner chaos has a big bearing on the make-up of the bottom places.
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Qualifying: 1st Sprint: 1st Grand Prix: 1st
Almost-dominant, and certainly comfortable enough to where you'd hardly know he was physically limited at all.
He seemed to distribute his stamina resource perfectly through the weekend, albeit perhaps slightly overplayed those worries in order to deflect some pressure - as the laptimes never betrayed any signs of fatigue from Marquez in neither the sprint nor the grand prix.
A Turn 1 "rookie mistake" in qualifying that could've been a lot more costly had the bike shut off in that moment (forcing him to sprint for a spare) is handily offset by his injury status and clear buffer over the other Ducatis.
Qualifying: 11th Sprint: 7th Grand Prix: 6th
He's unlikely to get to use it much in the future, but Diogo Moreira clearly has an affinity for Balaton Park. This looked like his 'fastest' weekend in MotoGP yet, even if he'd made more of a splash at Mugello.
Friday was good, Q1 a little rough, then the sprint utterly fantastic - set up by a great start and good positioning.
Moreira is proving very capable off the line (though the Honda itself seems to help) and was again effective in this regard on Sunday, but a 'smoother' approach to Turn 1 meant a failure to disengage the start device and the loss of crucial positions.
Being stuck behind Jack Miller afterwards complicated his race, though he was more bothered in hindsight by choosing the medium rear tyre over the soft.
Qualifying: 7th Sprint: 4th Grand Prix: DNF
Raul Fernandez was worried coming into the weekend but was "comfortable" and "in control" from lap one on Friday.
Bezzecchi seemed to steal a march in the intra-Aprilia fight come qualifying (both ultimately made mistakes that denied them better grid slots), but Fernandez looked in good shape to keep the other RS-GP riders behind him - and did just that in a solid sprint.
He got a really neat start on Sunday and immediately paid for it, as it put him in the path of the Jorge Martin cannonball.
Qualifying: 9th Sprint: 12th Grand Prix: 5th
Luca Marini's slightly dejected verdict over his Friday laptime was that it was "impossible to do better than this". But he proceeded to 'do better than this' on Saturday morning, laying the groundwork for a fruitful weekend.
The sprint was a disappointment, a combination of a poor start (he’d "forgot" to do a practice start earlier) and being extra cautious into Turn 1.
But the opportunity presented by Sunday's unfortunate early pile-up was taken well (especially in clearing Miller and building a buffer), even if his favoured soft rear tyre ran out of grip in the end and he was powerless to resist Ai Ogura.
Qualifying: 10th Sprint: 11th Grand Prix: 4th
Outside of the five who went down, Ogura was probably the worst-affected by the Turn 1 calamity on Sunday. He did genuinely great work from there, picking his spots and making his moves, despite struggling with the bike in the slipstream - due to the heat impacting the tyre and brakes, and the air disturbance into corners.
But I can't ignore the rest of the weekend in my assessment here. Friday was basically fine but unspectacular, ditto for qualifying on Saturday morning, but the sprint was a disappointment and this was partially self-inflicted - he laboured to find a pocket of space to exploit through the first few corners, but also lost a puzzling amount of ground through Turn 4 and had little chance from then on.
Qualifying: 4th Sprint: 10th Grand Prix: 12th
As Fabio Di Giannantonio pointed out post-race, he was 20 seconds back after lap one and 28 seconds back at the finish - so the evidence is that he would've been in the podium hunt without the crash.
Further evidence to this is the rest of his weekend - when things were going right, he was fast, despite continued irritation at an injured pinky finger.
He was really quick on Friday despite sacrificing a chunk of the day to seemingly fruitless set-up experiments, but had a crash and another botched corner entry in Q2 that messed with his grid position, then laboured on the opening lap of the sprint.
But he'd put himself in a good position on Sunday before being taken out.
Qualifying: 22nd Sprint: 22nd Grand Prix: 16th
Soldiered through in good spirits, with no shortage of enviable one-liners and model enthusiasm despite the apparent muscle tear from Mugello - and without shunting the bike.
Could he have put himself in a position to pick up a point by staying within the requisite 16 seconds of Maverick Vinales on Sunday? It would've been a tall order, but he anyway wasn't to know and isn't here to score points - yet, at least.
Qualifying: 15th Sprint: 17th Grand Prix: DNF
After two weekends in which he was running laps around his fellow Yamahas, here came two weekends in which Fabio Quartararo looked distinctly ordinary even within the M1 context.
Ignore the grand prix, which looked like racing with a technical failure and was confirmed to be exactly that - and also note that there were technical gremlins here and there earlier in the weekend that held him back.
The Q1 lap was good, though not 'wow', and the sprint underwhelmed.
Qualifying: 20th Sprint: 21st Grand Prix: 13th
Perhaps the grid's least noticeable rider this weekend - which can be a byproduct of being in the Yamaha 2026 roster, but in this case also reflected a general lack of performance.
Alex Rins was way too far off his fellow Yamaha riders on Friday, and didn't make enough of a dent in the gap in Q1.
He hobbled to the end in a sprint made pointless by a clutch issue, but believed a genuine step forward was made on Sunday - though ultimately his race was still "very long" and unremarkable.
Qualifying: 17th Sprint: 16th Grand Prix: 10th
A curious Mugello pattern continued here: Binder seems a lot better over one lap but it's arrived hand-in-hand with a serious erosion in race pace.
And he didn't put in the peak laptimes here anyway. He crashed in Friday's 'Q0' while trying to chase after the different-league Acosta, then fell in Q1 - racking up his second crash of the weekend before any other MotoGP rider had even crashed once. "I feel really fine, and then all of a sudden it's not," was his explanation of the crash dynamics.
He overshot Turn 1 in the sprint, nearly causing a milder version of the next day's Martin crash - then struggled anyway afterwards, and again on Sunday. He described himself as "just missing pace" and admitted he "thought I'd be a hell of a lot stronger".
Qualifying: 19th Sprint: 20th Grand Prix: 14th
"We need to work together with Ducati to take out a normal grip from the bike," summed up Franco Morbidelli, whose weekend could only be described as humiliating - and whose mission in MotoGP now appears to be to recover a respectable level of pace before he inevitably leaves the grid at the end of the year.
After how the Mugello weekend unfolded he admitted he was "fearing" the prospect of being beaten by stand-in Lecuona here, and in the end Lecuona didn't just beat him but beat him handily in every session but the first.
Morbidelli isn't too forthcoming on what's limiting him so, but it's no mechanical fault nor set-up error. The only way to interpret his messages is that the 2025 Ducati he's riding disagrees with him at a truly fundamental level.