So how do the riders feel about the Balaton Park Circuit now they’ve had a chance to ride it? “It’s not bad at all,” Brad Binder said. “It’s a pretty sick layout to be honest. I think once you figure it out, it will be really nice. It’s just the chicanes are super mickey mouse. That’s the only thing I can’t say I enjoy too much.”
That was a fairly widely shared opinion. “The track is fun, for me it’s fun,” Jorge Martin said. “For sure it’s strange, because there are some corners in first gear that are really tough, physical, a lot of changes of direction, a lot of braking points. And I still struggle a bit physically. I felt after the last time attack I wasn’t at my 100%. I was a bit tired. So I think if I have a good dinner, tomorrow I will be much stronger…” he joked.
It is completely different to other tracks, much tighter than elsewhere, but that is part of what a world championship means, Fabio Di Giannantonio insisted. “The track is fun. And as I said, it’s cool to have Phillip Island and this kind of track. At the end we are a world championship, a world champion should win with all different tracks, and having a smaller, tighter track, it’s part of the calendar, it’s good.”
