{"id":16668,"date":"2025-07-23T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16668\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:06:08","slug":"scott-ogden-names-the-surprising-motogp-underdog-whos-been-his-main-inspiration-in-moto3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16668\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Ogden names the surprising MotoGP ‘underdog’ who’s been his main ‘inspiration’ in Moto3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scott Ogden is currently enjoying the best season of his Moto3 career so far. As the season pauses for the summer break, he\u2019s already accumulated 39 points, a new high.<\/p>\n

Ogden sits 16th in the championship, having never previously finished above 20th. Most notably, he picked up his first Grand Prix pole position at the Sachsenring earlier this month.<\/p>\n

For the Englishman, who\u2019s qualified inside the top five three times this season, the next target must be a first podium. His best result so far is a P5 at the 2023 Argentine GP. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Speaking to talkSPORT, Ogden said he\u2019s targeting a spot in Moto2 for the 2027 season. To get there, he knows he must climb into the top bracket of riders in the lightweight class.<\/p>\n

Scott Ogden explains why Alex Marquez inspires him<\/p>\n

In the same interview, Ogden was asked which MotoGP<\/a> riders he looked up to. He says his biggest inspiration is Gresini\u2019s Alex Marquez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The younger Marquez brother is perhaps a surprising choice. The Spaniard only won his first premier-class Grand Prix in April, nearly 100 races into his career.<\/p>\n

Even Ogden acknowledges that he\u2019s always been an \u2018underdog\u2019. He\u2019s raced in the \u2018shadow\u2019 of Marc for so long. <\/p>\n

But Alex has found another level in the 2025 season, amassing a total of 17 podiums. He\u2019s on course to finish runner-up in the championship, far exceeding winter expectations.<\/p>\n

\"AUTO:Photo by Hazrin Yeob Men Shah\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it was Alex Marquez,\u201d Ogden said. \u201cHe was a super big inspiration, mainly because he was in his brother\u2019s shadow a little bit. <\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of like the underdog, and he was such a good rider in himself, but he was never really published the same as Marc because Marc was doing such a good job. But now he\u2019s finally got to the front of MotoGP, just behind his brother. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a super big inspiration, because mentally it\u2019s quite tough to be in the shadow of somebody else, so I look up to him a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about his encounters with the brothers, he added: \u201cThey\u2019re actually very friendly people. They come and train close to where I live in Spain, so I\u2019ve trained with them a few times. I\u2019ve spoken to them a few times, they\u2019re really great people and happy to try and help everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fabio Quartararo\u2019s praise for Alex Marquez after breakout season at Gresini<\/p>\n

Alex Marquez pushed Marc to leave Honda<\/a> in 2023 before they linked up at Gresini. While that proved to be perfect advice, he may now regret supplying it. <\/p>\n

Hypothetically, Alex would be bound for the championship right now if his brother wasn\u2019t riding a Ducati. But the 29-year-old has still performed well enough this season to suggest he can contend in the future.<\/p>\n

For this year at least, he\u2019s ruled himself out. A rare error at Brno saw the gap increase to 120 points, and now the only question is when Marc will become champion.<\/p>\n

Still, Alex Marquez has gained a newfound respect from Fabio Quartararo<\/a> and the other elite riders on the grid. That\u2019s a testament to both his talent and his fortitude.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Ogden is currently enjoying the best season of his Moto3 career so far. As the season pauses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[8454,64,63,17924,806,805,803,804,17925,85],"class_list":["post-16668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alex-marquez","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-moto3","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-scott-ogden","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}