Leopard Racing

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, they made their debut at the Qatar GP, and ended the season with the riders' title.

Leopard Racing has three riders: 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]

For the 2016 season, Leopard Racing also debuts in the Moto2 class with Danny Kent and Miguel Oliveira on Kalex bikes. Due to a collarbone injury sustained during qualifying for the Aragon GP, Oliveira was forced to miss 4 races. Italian rider Alessandro Nocco took Oliveira's place during the Grand Prix Australian and Malaysian GPs. Oliveira ended the season just one point away from winning the best rookie of the year.^[3]

In Moto3 the team changed from the Honda NSF250R to the KTM RC250GP, the team's riders are Joan Mir, Italian Andrea Locatelli and Frenchman Fabio Quartararo. They managed to conquer 5 podiums in total with a victory obtained by Mir in the Austrian GP. At the end of the season Mir won the rookie of the year award with fifth place, Locatelli ended the season with ninth position, while Quartararo finished in thirteenth place in the overall classification.^[4]

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

In the 2020 World Championship the two Honda NSF250Rs are entrusted to Italian Dennis Foggia and Spaniard Jaume Masiá who ended the season in sixth and tenth place in the standings respectively. The sum of their points allowed the team 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 making perfect start, the Roman rider managed to fight for the world title against the KTM of Pedro Acosta. But the fight ended prematurely during the Grand Prix of Algarve, where Foggia crashed due to contact caused by Honda rider Darryn Binder, which also involved Spanish rider Sergio Garcia. Following the fall of Foggia and the victory of Acosta, the Roman rider lost the chance of being able to fight for the title again. The season ended with the first career victory for Artigas at Valencia,^[8] with Foggia vice-champion and third place in the team classification.^[9]

Year	Class	Team name	Motorcycle	No.	Riders	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	F. laps	Points	Pos.
2015	Moto3	Leopard Racing	Honda NSF250RW	7	Efrén Vázquez	18	0	5	0	1	155	8th
				52	Danny Kent	18	6	9	5	3	260	1st
				76	Hiroki Ono	17	0	0	0	0	29	21st
				36	Joan Mir	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2016	Moto2	Leopard Racing	Kalex Moto2	44	Miguel Oliveira	16	0	0	0	0	36	21st
				52	Danny Kent	18	0	0	0	0	35	22nd
				20	Alessandro Nocco	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Moto3		KTM RC250GP	20	Fabio Quartararo	18	0	0	0	0	83	13th
				36	Joan Mir	18	1	3	1	2	144	5th
				55	Andrea Locatelli	18	0	2	0	2	96	9th
2017	Moto3	Leopard Racing	Honda NSF250RW	11	Livio Loi	16	0	1	0	0	80	13th
				36	Joan Mir	18	10	13	1	3	341	1st
				37	Aaron Polanco	1	0	0	0	0	0	42nd
2018	Moto3	Leopard Racing	Honda NSF250RW	33	Enea Bastianini	18	1	6	1	1	177	4th
				48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	18	1	5	0	2	151	5th
				96	Manuel Pagliani	1	0	0	0	0	6	34th
2019	Moto3	Leopard Racing	Honda NSF250RW	42	Marcos Ramírez	19	2	4	2	1	183	3rd
				48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	19	4	11	1	1	279	1st
		Leopard Impala Junior Team		4	Xavier Artigas	1	0	1	0	0	16	26th
2020	Moto3	Leopard Racing	Honda NSF250RW	5	Jaume Masiá	15	2	3	1	2	140	6th
				7	Dennis Foggia	15	1	3	0	0	89	10th
2021	Moto3	Leopard Racing Leopard Impala Junior Team	Honda NSF250RW	7	Dennis Foggia	18	5	10	0	0	216	2nd
				43	Xavier Artigas	16	1	1	0	2	72	15th
2022	Moto3	Leopard Racing	Honda NSF250RW	7	Dennis Foggia	20	4	8	4	2	246	3rd
				24	Tatsuki Suzuki	20	0	3	1	0	130	7th
2023	Moto3	Leopard Racing	Honda NSF250RW	5	Jaume Masiá	18	4	10	6	1	274	1st
				24	Tatsuki Suzuki	12	1	1	0	0	50	19th
				31	Adrián Fernández	8	0	0	0	0	25	22nd
2024	Moto3	Leopard Racing	Honda NSF250RW	31	Adrián Fernández	0	0	0	0	0	0*	—
				36	Ángel Piqueras	0	0	0	0	0	0*	—

Notes

* Season still in progress.

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