Aragon Moto3: Foggia wins as title rivals Acosta, Garcia crash

A late crash for runaway points leader Acosta offered Garcia a major chance to take a massive chunk out of his championship advantage, but he too fell on the final lap while running third, while Foggia won the race with a last-corner move on Oncu.

Darryn Binder converted pole to the holeshot off the line, while Garcia moved into second ahead of the Gresini Honda of Gabriel Rodrigo.

Rodrigo would briefly hold the lead after moving ahead of Binder at the end of the opening lap, but the Argentine’s race would end on lap six when he highsided out of the final corner.

On lap three Andrea Migno moved his Snipers Honda to the front of the pack, though Binder soon retaliated at the end of the tour. before Tech 3 KTM’s Oncu took the first of his stints leading the race into Turn 1 on lap four.

Oncu would keep the chasing pack at bay until lap 10, when the Leopard Honda of Xavi Artigas  slid up the inside of the Turkish rider at the Turn 5 left-hander.

Artigas would have the favour returned on him by Oncu at the same corner on the following lap, with the Tech 3 rider holding onto the lead until lap 13.

It would be the second Leopard Honda of Foggia who would demote Oncu at the first corner on the 13th tour of 19 – though once again the Tech 3 rider retaliated at the end of the lap.

The battle in the lead group for the podium spots was fierce, and it would ultimately lead to a major drama in the championship battle.

Points leader Acosta lost the front-end of his Ajo KTM while trying to pass Artigas at Turn 5 and took the pair of them down, registering the first DNF of his stunning rookie season.

This gave Garcia a massive opportunity to reduce Acosta’s championship lead from 46 points to at least 30.

But the Aspar GasGas rider fell while running third into the Turn 12 left-hander, which means Acosta’s championship lead remains intact going to Misano.

In the battle for the lead, Foggia positioned his Leopard Honda perfectly in Oncu’s slipstream down the back straight and launched a successful raid into the penultimate corner.

Foggia kept his line tight through the long double left to finish the lap and keep Oncu behind by 0.041s to claim the third win of his 2021 season.

Oncu headed Tech 3 teammate Ayumu Sasaki at the chequered flag, with Izan Guevara equalling his season-best result of fourth on his Aspar GasGas.

Niccolo Antonelli completed the top five on the sole remaining Avintia KTM at the finish after an early crash for teammate Carlos Tatay, with Migno heading Binder, Stefan Nepa (BOE Owlride), SIC58 Honda’s Tatsuki Suzuki and Ajo KTM’s Jaume Masia. 

Race results:

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Gap
1	7	Dennis Foggia	Honda
2	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	0.041
3	71	Ayumu Sasaki	KTM	0.644
4	28	Izan Guevara	GASGAS	0.708
5	23	Niccolo Antonelli	KTM	0.878
6	16	Andrea Migno	Honda	1.180
7	40	Darryn Binder	Honda	2.133
8	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	2.685
9	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	2.786
10	5	Jaume Masia	KTM	4.714
11	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	KTM	8.275
12	31	Adrian Fernandez	Husqvarna	9.499
13	63	Syarifuddin Azman	Honda	9.645
14	55	Romano Fenati	Husqvarna	14.797
15	54	Riccardo Rossi	KTM	18.880
16	27	Kaito Toba	KTM	18.894
17	92	Yuki Kunii	Honda	19.272
18	11	Sergio García	GASGAS	19.888
19	73	Maximilian Kofler	KTM	19.933
20	19	Andi Gilang	Honda	38.640
21	67	Alberto Surra	Honda	38.744
	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Honda
	20	Lorenzo Fellon	Honda
	43	Xavier Artigas	Honda
	37	Pedro Acosta	KTM
	99	Carlos Tatay	KTM
	2	Gabriel Rodrigo	Honda
	12	Filip Salač	KTM
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