Ducati's Marc Marquez smashed the Balaton Park Circuit lap record twice on Saturday to claim pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix as his teammate Francesco Bagnaia endured his worst qualifying session of the season.

Marquez, who leads the championship, will be joined on the front row by Aprilia's Marco Bezzecchi and VR46 Racing's Fabio Di Giannantonio, both of whom had to battle through the Q1 session to reach the pole shootout.

"It's a surprise (to see them on the front row) and at the same time, no, because we cannot forget that we're in a new circuit," Marquez said.

"Every time you put new tyres, you find new limits. So they were coming Q1 and the fact that they already did two timed attacks, they had another reference.

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