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Next August, the World Motorcycle Speed Championship and in July the Superbike World Championship will be held at the Balaton Park Circuit near Balatonfőkajár (eastern shore of Lake Balaton).
At a press conference held at the facility on Thursday, it was announced that the Superbike World Championship field will visit the track on July 25-27, while the MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 World Championship categories will visit the track on the weekend of August 22-24.
MotoGP will return to Hungary after 33 years and Superbike after 35 years, while the Balaton Park Circuit will undergo some additional improvements to ensure that the track meets the so-called “Grade A” license required to host the event.
The contract has been signed for 10 years from 2025 to 2034, while Balaton Park Circuit has a three-year cooperation with HUMDA Hungarian Mobility Development Agency, responsible for promotion and organization.
Carmelo Ezpeleta, CEO of the promoter company Dorna, recalled that after the 1992 race they were unable to return to Hungary, but they kept in touch with Hungarians throughout. He said that the country was “extremely important” to them and that it was the wish of all of them that the World Championship team would return here at some point. “We were sure that with the help and cooperation of the Hungarian government and HUMDA, this would happen. The race calendar will be published soon, and here we hope that the track approval process will go well and we are confident that the races will be a success in terms of spectator numbers,” noted Ezpeleta.
Adrienn Walterné Dancsó, Operations Director of the Balaton Park Circuit, stressed that it is a great honor for them to have the Superbike World Championship and MotoGP teams returning to Hungary next year. “We have to adapt the track for these races, so we have to change the track in three places to enlarge the pit lane and we will also have new pit lane areas in other parts of the track.
We will start work in October and hope to have these completed by the end of March or early April,”
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Henrik Hermann, president of the Hungarian National Motorsport Association, said the organization would provide all the support needed to make the races a reality next year. “Hungarian speed motorsport has already proven itself on the international scene, but in the life of the sport, the arrival of a world event is always a great motivation and can put the sport’s future on a different footing,” he added.
The first MotoGP race in Hungary was held in 1990 and the second in 1992. In the years that followed, Hungary also celebrated Gábor Talmácsi who, in 2007, became the first Hungarian rider to win the world title in the 125cc category. The Superbike World Championship also came to Hungary between 1988 and 1990.
Tickets for the 2025 Hungarian MotoGP and Superbike races are scheduled to go on sale later this year, reported GP One. HUMDA’s goal is to make motorcycle racing accessible to as many fellow citizens as possible.
Via MTI GP One; Featured image via Pixabay