Fabio Di Giannantonio closed his first season in MotoGP with a pole position and a top 10, but what he will remember most is his coexistence with Enea Bastianini.
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From the sun of Dubai to the snow of Madonna di Campiglio, the winter break of Fabio DiGiannantonio continues after its first season in MotoGP. The pilot Gresini Racing took his first pole position at Mugello and an eighth place at Sachsenring as his best result in the 2022 World Championship. He missed out on the "rookie of the year" title, which ended up in the hands of Marco Bezzecchi, but he learned as much as possible from his teammate Enea Bastianini, author of a breathtaking championship.
Next season he will try to raise the performance bar on the Ducati GP22. It will not be a very different bike from the Desmosedici GP21 with which he faced his first year in MotoGP, but it will certainly be a small step forward that will add to the experience he has accumulated. The 2023 World Championship will also be a bit of a “year zero”, with the introduction of sprint races and a few new tracks on the calendar unknown to the World Championship, namely India and Kazakhstan. Nevertheless Di Giannantonio will forever remember the “coexistence” in the stands with bastianini, third in the final ranking. “ I tried to 'steal' as much as possible from Enea and her team », confessed the 24-year-old Roman pilot to 'Fanpage.it'.
The last part of the championship did not give Fabio much joy, his confidences on social networks after the race in Malaysia made the headlines. He even gave the false impression of wanting to leave MotoGP, but that was just a matter of minor discontent within the team. From the Valencia test he began to collaborate with the new team leader Frankie CarchediEx Suzuki, who until this year collaborated with the world champion Joan mir.
Di Giannantonio: “ I tried to learn from Enea Bastianini and what was done in her box«
A great technical and experienced figure who will help speed up the process of adaptation to the Ducati Desmosedici and will be able to untangle many knots during the season. “ He has experience, so he has already experienced a lot of things that I still have to discover and so that will make my job easier. », added 'Diggia'. In 2022, his team was made up of people in their first year in MotoGP, a pitfall which required more time to resolve certain situations.
In the other corner of the box, he could count on the data fromEnea Bastianini, then in its second year in the premier category, and its already well-established team. Alongside “Bestia”, the team leader Alberto Giribuola, an environmental expert Ducati and which already boasted of a long collaboration with Andrea Dovizioso, three-time MotoGP runner-up in previous years. “ I tried to learn from Enea and what was done in her box - concluded Fabio Di Giannantonio - because they were very good. In short, I tried to “steal” them as much as possible ». For 2023, the objective is to “ do better than 2022 ". " Next year we could make a big move because Frankie will make everyone's life a little easier ».
