Mugello Moto3: Foggia fends off Masia to take narrow win

Following the horrible incident which has left Jason Dupasquier in a serious condition in hospital in Florence, the Prustel GP team elected to withdraw Ryusei Yamanaka from Sunday’s Italian GP.

Drama erupted on the opening lap of the race when Max Racing’s Adrian Fernandez ran into the back of VR46 Academy wildcard Alberto Surra at Turn 1, taking both down.

Further round the lap at the Casanova/Savelli section, Tech 3 KTM rider Deniz Oncu highisded out of the race while behind him a similar crash for CIP’s Max Kofler ended up collecting Andrea Migno (Snipers Honda) and Avintia’s Carlos Tatay.

The marshals managed to clear the scene by the time the field came round on lap two, the battle for the lead typically chaotic at Mugello.

Across the first 16 of 20 laps championship leader Pedro Acosta, Leopard’s Foggia, Romano Fenati on the Max Racing Husqvarna, poleman Tatzuki Suzuki (SIC58 Honda) and Petronas Sprinta Honda pair John McPhee and Darryn Binder all took turns heading the field.

The lead group onto the final two laps stood at 14 riders, with Jaume Masia on the Ajo KTM outdragging the pack into San Donato at the start of the penultimate tour.

But the Spaniard ran wide and allowed Fenati and Foggia to come through, while Acosta found himself down in 11th.

Fenati managed to eke out a handful of bike lengths over Foggia across the penultimate lap, but was powerless to stop Foggia blasting through into the lead at the start of the final tour.

Foggia was given crucial breathing space when Gresini’s Gabriel Rodrigo scythed past Fenati at Savelli.

Masia came through on Rodrigo into the Scarperia right-hander and managed to close the gap to Foggia into the final corner.

But Foggia was able to use the power of his Honda to keep the charging Masia at bay for his first win since Brno last year.

Rodrigo completed the podium for his first rostrum since Barcelona 2018, with Ayumu Sasaki – who was involved in the Dupasquier incident – was fourth on his Tech 3 KTM ahead of Binder.

Fenati was sixth in the end ahead of McPhee, who was promoted two spots due to Acosta and Sergio Garcia (Aspar GASGAS) being demoted a place for exceeding track limits on the last lap.

Poleman Suzuki completed the top 10, with the remaining points going to Snipers’ Filip Salac, CIP’s Kaito Toba, Niccolo Antonelli (Avintia KTM), Stefano Nepa (BOE Owlride KTM) and Gresini’s Jeremy Alcoba.

Acosta holds onto a sizable championship lead over teammate Masia of 52 points, with Sasaki moving up to third a further two points adrift. 

Race results:

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	7	Dennis Foggia	Honda	-
2	5	Jaume Masia	KTM	0.036	0.036
3	2	Gabriel Rodrigo	Honda	0.145	0.145
4	71	Ayumu Sasaki	KTM	0.240	0.240
5	40	Darryn Binder	Honda	0.499	0.499
6	55	Romano Fenati	Husqvarna	0.711	0.711
7	17	John McPhee	Honda	0.918	0.918
8	37	Pedro Acosta	KTM	0.745	0.745
9	11	Sergio García	GASGAS	0.861	0.861
10	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	0.963	0.963
11	12	Filip Salač	Honda	1.080	1.080
12	27	Kaito Toba	KTM	1.351	1.351
13	23	Niccolo Antonelli	KTM	1.429	1.429
14	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	4.472	4.472
15	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Honda	12.491	12.491
16	43	Xavier Artigas	Honda	23.493	23.493
17	28	Izan Guevara	GASGAS	23.499	23.499
18	54	Riccardo Rossi	KTM	23.609	23.609
19	20	Lorenzo Fellon	Honda	23.774	23.774
20	22	Elia Bartolini	KTM	39.959	39.959
21	19	Andi Gilang	Honda	40.023	40.023
22	32	Takuma Matsuyama	Honda	40.035	40.035
	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM
	16	Andrea Migno	Honda
	67	Alberto Surra	KTM
	31	Adrian Fernandez	Husqvarna
	99	Carlos Tatay	KTM
	73	Maximilian Kofler	KTM
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