Brno Moto3: Foggia wins, Arenas extends points lead

Gresini rider Gabriel Rodrigo muscled his Honda into the lead from second on the grid at the start, though he would be usurped by Arenas from seventh on the grid at Turn 3.

A near-highside for Rodrigo at the Turn 7 left-hander broke the pack up from Arena, who managed to open up a lead of eight tenths by the end of the lap and threatened to break away.

Aspar’s Arenas is carrying some nasty bruising on his left leg following his fast crash from the lead at the Andalusian GP last month and admitted he didn’t expect to be able to race at Brno.

His lead was eaten into by the chasing pack by lap three, with poleman Raul Fernandez attempting – but failing to execute – a pass for the lead on his Ajo KTM at Turn 9.

By lap six, Arenas had been relieved of his lead from Foggia, who fended off all attacks on the position through to the final lap.

Honda Team Asia’s Ai Ogura launched a raid on Foggia on the last lap into Turn 3, but the Leopard rider scythed back through at Turn 4.

Foggia’s hopes were dealt a boost when Arenas carved up Ogura at Turn 12 for the run up the hill to the penultimate corner, giving the Leopard rider enough margin to get through the final turns safely to claim his first win.

It comes after the Italian left Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Academy at the end of last year.

Arenas opened up his championship lead back up to 18 points after taking the chequered flag in second, which he admitted in parc ferme came as a result of “learning to suffer” with his injury.

Ogura moves into second in the standings after claiming third, with Niccolo Antonelli just missing out on the rostrum in fourth on the sole-remaining SIC 58 Honda after Tatsuki Suzuki crashed out on lap 10.

John McPhee came from 18th on the grid after a crash in qualifying to finish fifth on the Petronas Sprinta Honda, which keeps him third in the standings, 19 points down on Arenas.

Fernandez was sixth at the chequered flag ahead of Gresini’s Jeremy Alcoba, while Tony Arbolino (Snipers Honda) was awarded eighth ahead of Max Racing’s Romano Fenati following a photo finish.

Stefano Nepa completed the top 10 on the second Aspar bike. 

Brno Moto3 - Race results:

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Time
1	7	Dennis Foggia	Honda
2	75	Albert Arenas	KTM	0.205
3	79	Ai Ogura	Honda	0.251
4	23	Niccolo Antonelli	Honda	0.381
5	17	John McPhee	Honda	0.509
6	25	Raúl Fernández	KTM	0.808
7	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Honda	0.889
8	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	1.647
9	55	Romano Fenati	Husqvarna	1.648
10	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	8.815
11	27	Kaito Toba	KTM	8.828
12	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	8.849
13	13	Celestino Vietti Ramus	KTM	8.866
14	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	8.986
15	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	9.089
16	11	Sergio García	Honda	9.124
17	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	Honda	9.589
18	99	Carlos Tatay	KTM	9.723
19	2	Gabriel Rodrigo	Honda	12.594
20	71	Ayumu Sasaki	KTM	12.656
21	70	Barry Baltus	KTM	23.720
22	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	23.766
23	50	Jason Dupasquier	KTM	31.955
24	9	Davide Pizzoli	KTM	36.734
25	12	Filip Salač	Honda	47.046
26	5	Jaume Masia	Honda
27	92	Yuki Kunii	Honda
28	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda
29	21	Alonso López	Husqvarna
30	73	Maximilian Kofler	KTM
31	54	Riccardo Rossi	KTM
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