MotoGP Le Mans: Foggia undefeated in Moto3 FP3

Leopard’s Dennis Foggia maintained his command on the Moto3 times after FP3 at Le Mans on Saturday morning.

The Italian’s Friday time was unchallenged, even by himself as he topped the final free practice with a 1’41.710, Gaviota GasGas Aspar’s Izan Guevara coming within 0.066s of the session best and 0.09s of the outright pace. Tatsuki Suzuki completing the successful showing fro the Leopard outfit in third.

Final practice welcomed a cool Bugatti track as the lightweight class fired up on Saturday morning. Suzuki led the early times with Guevara and Mario Aji for company as the Leopard rider circulated two seconds adrift of his teammate’s target time.

John McPhee was running top four after the opening ten minutes, just 0.08s behind KTM’s Jaume Masia. The Scot’s Sterilgarda Husqvarna teammate four places back as the times continued to refine towards Friday’s best with VisionTrack’s Scott Ogden rounding to the top ten - eight-tenths off the session’s pace.

Friday hero Dennis Foggia began day two from fifth, trailed by Carlos Tatay, Deniz Öncü, Ayumu Sasaki and Andrea Migno with Ogden the only rider so far to have improved on their individual pace overnight. The halfway stage found the Italian up to third but still one second off his leading pace with Migno and the CF Moto pairing of Tatay and Artigas joining the front running pack as the second half played out. The latter securing his initial place in Q2 contention, from tenth, with his 1’42.668 lap.

The impressive stand-in ride from Jose Rueda continued on the Rivacold Snipers as the Spaniard claimed seventh in the session, narrowly adrift of the promotion zone overall. Öncü suffering the first highside of the morning with the Turk crawling away from his stricken Tech3