Leopard Racing

Leopard Racing is a Luxembourg–Italian motorcycle racing team competing in the Moto3 class of the FIM Grand Prix World Championship. The team has won two Moto3 Teams' Championships.[1]

Leopard Racing
2022 nameLeopard Racing
BaseHowald, Luxembourg
PrincipalMiodrag Kotur
Rider(s)Moto3:
7. Dennis Foggia
24. Tatsuki Suzuki
MotorcycleHonda NSF250RW
TyresDunlop
Riders' ChampionshipsMoto3:
2015: Danny Kent
2017: Joan Mir
2019: Lorenzo Dalla Porta
Teams' ChampionshipsMoto3:
2019
2020

History

Leopard Racing was founded by Flavio Becca at the end of 2014 with the intention of participating in the Moto3 world championship the following year. Thanks to the sponsor Leopard Natural Power Drink, he makes his debut for the first race of 2015 in Qatar, a season that ends with the final victory of the Moto3 championship.

Danny Kent's bike from 2015

Leopard Racing has three drivers: Danny Kent, Efrén Vázquez and Hiroki Ono. Over the course of the season, the team captured 14 podiums: 9 times for Danny Kent and 5 times for Efrén Vázquez. In the Australian GP, the injured Hiroki Ono is replaced by Joan Mir. Danny Kent is world champion in the last race in Valencia.[2]

During the 2016 season, Leopard Racing also debuts in the Moto2 class of MotoGP with Danny Kent and Miguel Oliveira on motorcycles Kalex. Due to a collarbone injury sustained during qualifying for the Aragon GP, Miguel Oliveira is forced to miss 4 races. The Italian rider Alessandro Nocco takes the place of Miguel Oliveira during the Grand Prix Australia and of Malaysia . Miguel Oliveira ends the season just one point away from winning the best rookie of the year.[3]

In Moto3 he goes from Honda NSF250R to KTM RC 250 GP, the team riders are Joan Mir, the Italian Andrea Locatelli and the French Fabio Quartararo. The riders manage to conquer 5 podiums in total with a victory obtained by Joan Mir in the Austrian GP. At the end of the season Joan Mir wins the rookie of the year award with fifth overall place, Andrea Locatelli ends the season with ninth position, while Fabio Quartararo wins thirteenth place in the general classification.[4]

In the 2017 season, Leopard Racing returns to compete exclusively in the Moto3 category with Honda motorcycles, lining up at the start of the championship with Joan Mir and the Belgian driver Livio Loi, with the Spaniard becoming world champion during the Australian GP. In the 2018 the two Honda NSF250R are entrusted to the Italians Enea Bastianini and Lorenzo Dalla Porta who each win a Grand Prix allowing the Team to place third in the team standings . In 2019 the confirmed Dalla Porta is joined by the Spaniard Marcos Ramírez after two seasons with KTM. Dalla Porta is the Moto3 champion and the Leopard wins the Team classification with five victories in the individual Grand Prix.[5][6]

In the 2020 World Championship the two Honda NSF250Rs are entrusted to the Italian Dennis Foggia and the Spaniard Jaume Masiá who close the season respectively in tenth and sixth place in the standings. The sum of their points allows Leopard to excel in the team ranking.[7]

In 2021 Dennis Foggia is confirmed, and the rookie Xavier Artigas is hired alongside him. Despite a not perfect start, the Roman rider managed to fight for the world title against the KTM Pedro Acosta rider. But the fight ended prematurely during the Grand Prix of Algarve, where Foggia crashed due to a contact caused by the Honda rider Darryn Binder, which also involved the Spanish García. Following the fall of Foggia and the victory of Acosta, the Roman driver loses the chances of being able to fight for the title again. The season ends with the first career victory for Artigas at Valencia,[8] Foggia vice-champion and third place in the team classification.[9]

Results
Year Class Team name Motorcycle Riders Races Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points Pos.
2015 Moto3 Leopard Racing Honda NSF250RW Efrén Vázquez 18 0 5 0 1 155 8th
Danny Kent 18 6 9 5 3 260  1st 
Hiroki Ono 17 0 0 0 0 29 21st
Joan Mir 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2016 Moto3 Leopard Racing KTM RC250GP Fabio Quartararo 18 0 0 0 0 83 13th
Joan Mir 18 1 3 1 2 144 5th
Andrea Locatelli 18 0 2 0 2 96 9th
2017 Moto3 Leopard Racing Honda NSF250RW Livio Loi 16 0 1 0 0 80 13th
Joan Mir 18 10 13 1 3 341  1st 
Aaron Polanco 1 0 0 0 0 0 42nd
2018 Moto3 Leopard Racing Honda NSF250RW Enea Bastianini 18 1 6 1 1 177 4th
Lorenzo Dalla Porta 18 1 5 0 2 151 5th
Manuel Pagliani 1 0 0 0 0 6 34th
2019 Moto3 Leopard Racing Honda NSF250RW Marcos Ramírez 19 2 4 2 1 183  3rd 
Lorenzo Dalla Porta 19 4 11 1 1 279  1st 
Leopard Impala Junior Team Xavier Artigas 1 0 1 0 0 16 26th
2020 Moto3 Leopard Racing Honda NSF250RW Jaume Masiá 15 2 3 1 2 140 6th
Dennis Foggia 15 1 3 0 0 89 10th
2021 Moto3

Leopard Racing

Leopard Impala Junior Team

 Honda NSF250RW Dennis Foggia 18 5 10 0 0 216  2nd 
Xavier Artigas 16 1 1 0 2 72 15th
2022 Moto3 Leopard Racing Honda NSF250RW Dennis Foggia 4 1 3 0 1 74*  1st 
Tatsuki Suzuki 4 0 0 0 0 23* 12th
Notes

* Season still in progress.

    References
    1. "The Leopard Racing Team Wins the Moto3 World Champion". 21 October 2019.
    2. Alessio Brunori (8 November 2015). Motorionline S.r.l. (ed.). "Moto3 Valencia: Vince Oliveira, ma Kent è campione del mondo". motogranprix.motorionline.com (in Italian).
    3. Riccardo Piergentili (28 February 2016). Nuova Editoriale Sportiva S.r.l. (ed.). "Leopard Racing raddoppia: ecco il dream team per Moto2 e Moto3". [tuttosport.com] (in Italian).
    4. Diana Tamantini (27 February 2016). CdM Editore (ed.). "Presentato il team Leopard Racing tra Moto2 e Moto3". corsedimoto.com (in Italian).
    5. Giovanni Zamagni (27 October 2019). CRM S.r.l. (ed.). "Moto3. Lorenzo Dalla Porta campione del mondo 2019: "Per mia nonna e mio papà"". moto.it (in Italian).
    6. Redazione (17 November 2019). Dorna Sports S.L. (ed.). "Moto3 2019 – World Championship Classification" (pdf).
    7. Redazione (22 November 2020). Dorna Sports S.L. (ed.). "Moto3 2020 – World Championship Classification" (pdf).
    8. Diana Tamantini (14 November 2021). Editoriale l'Incontro (ed.). "Moto3 Valencia: Il primo trionfo di Xavi Artigas, contatto Foggia-Acosta". [corsedimoto.com] (in Italian).
    9. Redazione (14 November 2021). Dorna Sports S.L. (ed.). "Moto3 2021 – World Championship Classification" (PDF). resources.motogp.com.
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