{"id":266,"date":"2026-06-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/balaton-park-debut\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T21:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:55:54","slug":"balaton-park-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/balaton-park-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Balaton Park: seventeen corners in 4.075 kilometres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The newest circuit on the calendar packs more corners into each kilometre than anywhere else the championship visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Balaton Park is 4.075 km long with 17 corners \u2014 ten left, seven right \u2014 and a longest straight of just 665 m. That works out at 4.2 corners per kilometre, the highest ratio of the 22 venues on the 2026 calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grand Prix racing arrived here in 2025, and the lap record is already Marc Marquez&#8217;s: a 1:37.699 set that year. He won again in June 2026, from pole, having also taken the sprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Grand Prix runs to 26 laps, which on a lap this busy means well over four hundred corner entries for every rider who finishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest circuit on the calendar packs more corners into each kilometre than anywhere else the championship visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[88,58,84],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-circuits","tag-hungary","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}