Amid the continued intrigue over the modifications Ducati made to Francesco Bagnaia’s manufacturing facility machine, fellow GP25 rider Fabio di Giannantonio insists his major focus is on a extra primary aim.
Like Bagnaia, di Giannantonio – promoted to a 3rd factory-spec machine at VR46 this season – has struggled to match Marc Marquez’s heroics on the 2025 bike.
It actually hasn’t been a catastrophe, Diggia surpassing his finest MotoGP season factors complete a number of rounds in the past and combating for a profession excessive of fifth on the earth championship towards Pedro Acosta and team-mate Franco Morbidelli.
Unable to crack the highest three final season, di Giannantonio has additionally made six rostrum appearances in Dash and GPs.
However the frustration for the Italian centres on the truth that he’s unable to maintain that type, even from at some point to the subsequent.
“Me, Ducati and the staff are working actually exhausting to try to perceive what occurs with the bike, to grasp why the bike is just not working continually in the identical method,” di Giannantonio mentioned in the course of the Mandalika weekend.
“Nonetheless, we’d like extra time to analyse all the things and discover a clear reply to this. I’m making an attempt to maintain the suggestions as exact as doable.”
An apparent distinction between newly topped champion Marquez and the opposite GP25s is that the Spaniard runs the most recent aero, whereas his Italian ‘team-mates’ choose the older model.
“I feel Marc is on his method. Nevertheless it’s at all times been like this all yr. Pecco and me, we at all times seemed for one thing totally different. And the bundle, too has been fairly totally different all year long,” di Giannantonio mentioned.
“Ducati has numerous components and we are able to customise the bike as we would like, let’s say. All people is looking for one of the best combo to go quicker… We’re doing loads of work.”
That brings up discuss of Bagnaia’s rumoured change to a GP25-powered GP24 on the Misano take a look at after which Motegi, the place he spectacularly gained each races from pole… solely to sink to a brand new low per week later in Indonesia.
Fabio di Giannantonio, 2025 Japanese MotoGP
“I’d like to attempt once more my bike from Friday in Japan…”
Would di Giannantonio, who mirrored Marquez in leaping straight from a satellite tv for pc GP23 to manufacturing facility GP25 this season, prefer to attempt a GP24?
“You realize what? I’m using the most recent model of the bike, that Ducati brings to us. And when it’s working good, the bike is f**king good!” he mentioned.
“For instance, I’d like to attempt once more my bike from Friday in Japan. However sadly, it’s the identical bike I did the race with in Japan!”
di Giannantonio started the Motegi weekend with fifth, two locations forward of Bagnaia, in Friday follow.
But the next morning, he sank all the way in which to twenty second in last follow. Twelfth and final in Qualifying 2 then grew to become a distant thirteenth in each races.
It summed up the yo-yoing type that di Giannantonio has battled all season as he tries to remain inside the GP25’s hard-to-gauge efficiency window.
“I simply wish to discover a method with the staff to have a constant feeling,” he confirmed. “One thing that works for positive.
“That’s what I want from the staff and Ducati. It’s not, ‘I need this half, with this half, from no matter yr bike’.
“I simply wish to discover the sensation [consistently] as a result of when we’ve it, we’ve proven we’ve unbelievable potential.
“Just like the file lap time in Sachsenring, or the race in Sachsenring, or the podiums we made this yr.
“I simply wish to discover a method with the staff to have a relentless feeling with the bike.”
Fabio di Giannantonio, 2025 Indonesian MotoGP
“It’s powerful to just accept”
The 2023 Qatar MotoGP winner admits the inconsistency has examined his endurance.
“I’m rising so much on this aspect this yr as a result of I’m being actually affected person, affected person, affected person,” he mentioned.
“To not anybody specifically, simply on this case, as a result of the behaviour of the bike modifications.
“It’s powerful to just accept as a result of, truthfully talking, on Friday in Japan I assumed I may very well be one of many guys on Saturday and Sunday.
“After which ten hours later, I used to be under no circumstances.”
di Giannantonio begins the ultimate 4 rounds of this season with a 16-point deficit to team-mate Franco Morbidelli, and with a 24-point hole to bridge to Acosta.
