Will Dennis Foggia be the one to deprive Pedro Acosta of the Moto3 crown? We had initially bet on Sergio Garcia, but a kidney injury pushed the Spaniard back to 50 points behind his young compatriot with three games remaining. The Italian, for his part, has been showing his claws within his Leopard Honda team for four races, trailing the young prodigy and rookie from Red Bull KTM by 30 lengths. The mission to take away a title that many have given him for granted is not impossible...
And for good reason: to win the title Moto3, and become the third youngest world champion after Loris Capirossi, Peter Acosta just needs to get on the podium in the final three races. But it is apparently not so obvious since the Spaniard in KTM has not managed to do so since the last Styrian Grand Prix. Furthermore, he only scored 35 points from Austria. In the same period, Dennis Foggia took two victories, a second and two third positions. This is why the twenty-year-old Roman firmly believes in his chances of success…
In 15 Grands Prix, Dennis Foggia boasts nine podiums but also six races completed without taking points. And it costs him dearly. However, he is no longer the same animal that started this 2021 campaign. Moto sprint, he says : " I'm very happy, because people said I was inconsistent, and I suffered, but now I have four podiums in a row. I made the real leap in quality this year. I grew up and showed that I was strong in the head. If I hadn't been mentally strong, I would have collapsed. It's the year of the mental 'click' ».
Dennis Foggia However, he has just come out of a major period of doubt which made him declare that he no longer wanted to be with his current team any more than with Moto3. And then everything changed to give way to a synergy so positive that he warns with confidence: “ during the last Grands Prix, I closed the gap with Acosta: I made the qualitative leap at the mental level and now I want to finish the job ". And he adds: “ I also benefit from the advice of my friend Quartararo”.
Dennis Foggia: “ Quartararo is waiting for me in MotoGP«
Foggia is happy to clarify this relational point with the French: “ with Fabio Quartararo we are friends: in 2012 we were in the same team, in RMU, he raced in PréMoto3, I raced in 50. His story, with the difficulties in Moto3 after the triumph in CEV, I reviewed them a little in me. He was considered the best. When he arrived at the world championship, they also created the "Quartararo law" to make him start before the age of 16. I greatly admire, because he knew how to climb and today he is very fast ».
« Then, my father and his father, Etienne, have a good relationship. Quartararo and I talk often: in Misano, Fabio congratulated me on the success. From time to time, I say: “In a few years, we will see you in MotoGP”. He's waiting for me ».
In fact, we will remember that this is the VR46 who set foot in the stirrup Dennis Foggia. An academy that he decided to leave, but for which he remains grateful: “ If I had not entered the Academy, I would not have had the means to race in the World Championship. The VR46 was a great springboard. I improved as a pilot, in this experience » specifies the Italian who will do it again in 2022 under the same Leopard colors and in Moto3.
