Coming off an incredible weekend for the team at Jerez, MP Motorsport entered the penultimate round of the 2026 Eurocup 3 season at the Hungaroring circuit. After a win in Jerez, René entered the weekend P1 in the rookie championship and P2 overall, in a great position for the end of his season, with the race weekend up ahead in Hungary providing him more opportunity to close his gap to the leader, Egozi. For the team overall, Ean sat behind René in the rookie championship coming into the weekend and P4 overall with MP Motorsport overall holding 322 points coming into the weekend and sat P2 behind Palou Motorsport. With great pace closing the season, Hungaroring only provided more opportunity to close the year on a high note.
Starting off the penultimate weekend of Eurocup 3 for 2026, the teams got on the track for the first practice session ahead of qualifying.
In a great start to the weekend, Gianmarco topped the timesheets with the fastest time of the session of 1:35.564, produced on his 16th and final lap.
Continuing, René trailed behind in P3 with his fastest time of 1:35.747, set on his 15th of 18 laps.
Following, Ean came out of the session having completed 16 laps, with his final flying lap of 1:36.654 being his fastest, which placed him P15.
Finally, Alceu finished FP1 in P20 with a best time of 1:36.824 set on his 14th lap of 18.
Free Practice 1 Results:
Not long after the first free practice session, the second and conclusive free practice session before Qualifying took place.
René this time topped the time sheets with his fastest time of 1:35.351, which put him P1.
Not that far off him, Ean came out of FP2 in P3 with a best time of 1:35.482, which he logged on his 14th of 18 total laps.
Only +0.008 seconds off Ean, Gianmarco came out of the final session in P4. He did this with a fastest time of 1:35.490 on a final flying lap, which exhibited great improving pace for the weekend ahead.
Finally, Alceu concluded free practice with a fastest time of 1:36.415 to come out P17 after he ran 19 laps of the circuit.
Free Practice 2 Results:
Qualifying 1 went ahead on Saturday morning at the Hungaroring.
For MP Motorsport, Ean snatched up P1 on the timesheet with a phenomenal 1:35.152 lap time on his seventh lap of ten.
Following his promising performance in the free practice sessions, Gianmarco qualified in P4 with his fastest time of 1:35.503 produced on his ninth lap of 11.
Continuing, René qualified in P6 with a fastest lap time of 1:35.730 produced on his ninth lap of 11.
Finally, with a best time of 1:36.434 produced on a tenth and final flying lap to some pit P22
Qualifying 1 Results:
Starting off racing for the Hungaroring weekend for the penultimate round of the 2026 Eurocup season, Ean started on pole with Gianmarco in P4, René in P6, followed by Alceu in P19.
At the start of the race, Egozi overtook Gianmarco, who dropped to P5. During this, Ean was pushed down to third by Al Azhari and Dall'Agnol before being overtaken by Egozi and fell to P4. Continuing, René also lost out on the launch and dropped to P10 when braking for turn 2 he was forced to avoid an incident ahead of him, while Alceu made up 4 positions to P15.
As the race progressed, René on lap 3 overtook Strauven around the inside to take P9. Later, at the midway point of the race, Alceu overtook Fiorentino and took P14 to continue his climb.
Unfortunately, on lap 13 with eight minutes remaining, Bustamante stopped, which brought out a safety car which remained until lap 17.
The MP Motorsport drivers benefitted from the restart, with Ean overtaking Egozi and moved up to P3 for a provisional podium spot. Meanwhile, Alceu shot ahead of Perard to P14, followed by René also made up positions ahead of Tarnvanichkul to P8.
On the following lap, Pérard snatched P14 back from Alceu, before Alceu tragically dropped all the way down the grid to P29, unfortunately undoing his progress.
The track positions did not change for the final two laps, with Ean redeeming his less-than-satisfactory start, to then finish on the podium in P3. Meanwhile Gianmarco and René scored solid points in P5 and P8.
Race 1 Results:
Succeeding a solid first race of the weekend, the drivers got on track for one final qualifying session to determine their grid placements for the final race of the weekend.
Fastest of the team was Gianmarco, who locked in P4 on his ninth final flying lap, where he set a time of 1:34.979.
Following him, René set his fastest time of 1:35.075 on his tenth penultimate lap of 11 to come out P6.
Further down with a P9 qualifying, Ean ran a fastest lap of 1:35.186 on his seventh of nine laps.
Finally, with his best time of 1:36.311, Alceu qualified in P24 with his time from his ninth and penultimate lap of qualifying.
With the drivers scattered across the grid and a full race ahead, anything was possible for the final race at the Hungaroring.
Qualifying 2 Results:
Wrapping up the penultimate weekend of Eurocup 3, the final race went ahead at the Hungaroring.
For MP Motorsport, Gianmarco started in P3 with René in P5, Ean in P9, and finally Alceu in P24.
On the launch, René propelled up two places to P3 however, it was later found to be a jump start and he was given a ten-second penalty post-race. Following, Gianmarco unfortunately dropped back to P5, while Ean rose up two positions to P7, followed by Alceu, who dropped back to P29.
All in the same opening lap, René overtook Dall’Agnol around the outside of turn 1 and propelled himself behind race leader Egozi to P1. Meanwhile, Ean was also making moves and overtook Sztuka to sit behind his teammate in P6.
The following lap saw René closing in on Egozi more, despite his pending penalty.
Throughout the course of laps 3 to 9, Alceu teetered between P27 and P28. A safety car came out on lap 9, midway through the race, after an Alibhai was out at turn 4, and on the restart on lap 12, Alceu was able to make up another position to P26. Unluckily, not much racing was able to occur with another yellow flag and safety car having come out on lap 14 for Bostandiev who was out after contact with El Feghali, as well as a separate incident involving Daryanani was also out. As a result, Alceu was promoted to P22.
Unfortunately, in an anticlimactic close to the weekend, the race ended under the safety car. Crossing the line, René finished P2; however, his penalty pushed him down to P25. Gianmarco had a solid finish to a good weekend finishing in P4, with Ean right behind him in P5 followed by Alceu after penalties were distributed finished in P19.
Race 2 Results:
Despite an anticlimactic conclusion to the race, Hungaroring saw the team exhibiting solid performances across the board.
Gianmarco had consistently great pace on the weekend, with P1 in Free Practice 1 followed by keeping himself within the top five for both races on the weekend.
Continuing, Ean came home with a podium position with P3 in Race 1, and despite his penalty in the final race, René had great pace, keeping his racing in the top five.
With only one weekend remaining of the Eurocup 3 season, racing for 2026 will come to a close in Barcelona at Montmeló in two weeks in November.
Driver Standings after Round 7:
Team Standings after Round 7:
