RiderTua.com – Fabio Di Giannantonio wants to amaze MotoGP fans again, this time he wants to fulfill his mission at the VR46 team. The VR46 team welcomes another great season and in 2024 aims to ensure itself among the best teams in MotoGP. Apart from the new main sponsor Pertamina Enduro, another big news is the arrival of Fabio Di Giannantonio who replaces Luca Marini. A solution that allows the team from Tavullia to have a squad that is ready to break away from the Ducati family and experience exponential growth at the end of the last championship. A win and two podiums as well as other good results from the Motegi GP onwards.
Fabio Di Giannantonio Challenges Bezzecchi: Who is the Best in VR46?
This time Fabio Di Giannantonio in quotes “challenged” Bezzecchi.. Unlike his teammate Marco Bezzecchi, he immediately felt comfortable with the Desmosedici GP23. Even though last year Pecco Bagnaia explained to him that he had to make some changes to adapt, considering the differences with the GP22, in fact the Roman rider only noted positive changes compared to his old bike and managed to express his racing style effectively.
Obviously, two tests were not enough to make him overly excited and overconfident. Diggia knows that racing is important and it is on this occasion that he must show his strength. In 2023, Diggia’s soaring performance was also driven by the fact that he had no team after being evicted by Marc Marquez. This must have given him further motivation, because without results he risks being knocked out of the MotoGP grid. Now he has to make sure he becomes a popular rider like in the last six or seven races of 2023 so that in 2025 he can still be in MotoGP. Many expected Bezzecchi to be number 1 for the Pertamina Enduro VR46 team, but he didn’t want to lose.
Last season, the decisive change was also an improvement in qualifying, as starting too far back in the pack was a big obstacle for Di Giannantonio. His former crew chief Frankie Carchedi, who remains in Gresini with Marc Marquez, spoke about it.. “When a rider starts a race from behind, a rider cannot be at the forefront in MotoGP at the moment. He (Diggia) himself knowing that, in the end this was the key. It was a problem (of riders being bunched up and difficult to overtake) all weekend. After never making it through to Q2 in the first ten races, we started doing it (qualifying to Q2) regularly. Then the weekends became very different (the results),” he said.
Doing well in qualifying is crucial, even if a rider has a bike that on paper could allow them to catch up. The overall level of drivers is currently so high and the scores are so close that drivers cannot be too far behind on the grid if a driver wants to finish the race in the most important position. We’ll see if the 25-year-old rider from Rome can prove he’s that fast, both in qualifying and the race. In 2023 he is mature, now is the time to reconfirm, and even beat Bezzecchi?
