Fabio di Giannantonio’s Austrian MotoGP ended with a dramatic engine failure on his Ducati GP25.
It marked a 3rd successive grand prix non-score for the VR46 rider, who had solely been circulating in 14th on the time.
The Italian’s 2025 kind has been one thing of a rollercoaster, with qualifying outcomes swinging wildly from 2nd to seventeenth and race finishes from third to sixteenth.
Manufacturing facility rider Francesco Bagnaia has additionally struggled for consistency on the newest GP25, his outcomes oscillating between 1st and twelfth within the dry this season.
Against this, team-mate and title chief Marc Marquez has notched up a 12-race win streak, reaching the rostrum in each race he’s completed this season, barring a restoration trip at Jerez.
No doubting Ducati GP25 potential
Di Giannantonio rode a ’23-spec Ducati final 12 months, like Marquez. However Di Giannantonio additionally now has a manufacturing facility bike.
Regardless of the newest disappointment, di Giannantonio stays satisfied of the GP25’s potential.
“We try to push each weekend as a workforce, the bike is an unbelievable bike however for positive it wants a couple of issues to go that quick. And generally we have been capable of finding them and generally not,” he mentioned.
“However nonetheless, it’s one of the best bike that I’ve ever ridden in MotoGP. I have already got three podiums. Final 12 months I obtained zero podiums. So I don’t see it actually unhealthy.
“In case you see my season, within the Qatar GP we have been fairly robust and I obtained kicked out [wide]. And with out my mistake in Germany [while second], the standings could be completely different.”
At the moment tied on factors for fifth on this planet championship with team-mate Franco Morbidelli (GP24) and KTM’s Pedro Acosta, di Giannantonio feels he’s nonetheless paying the worth for lacking pre-season testing on account of harm.
“The [set-up] window for a motorcycle is kind of the identical. The tough factor is to be at all times within the window,” he defined.
“Constructing the set-up on race weekends, not having exams, has at all times been tough.
“In case you suppose which you could combat for the championship with out having any exams originally of the season, it’s not that simple whenever you’re in opposition to Pecco, Marc and different champions that now we have within the grid.
“So we’re simply doing our greatest once we can.
“Alex [Marquez] with the 24 bike is doing a tremendous job. Franky [Morbidelli] goes good. Fermin [Aldeguer] is doing nice in his first 12 months.
“I believe it’s only a matter of the rider and the workforce discovering one of the best stability for the rider.”
Turning to his spectacular Crimson Bull Ring retirement, Diggia mentioned he had no warning of an engine subject:
“I used to be attempting to handle [the rear tyre] as a result of ranging from simply fifteenth, our solely weapon was to combat on the finish of the race with a greater tyre.
“I needed to be affected person and wait, however then it was not potential to complete the race.
“The bike was feeling fairly regular. Our energy on the straight was not improbable nevertheless it was feeling fairly okay… after which it occurred, so fairly sudden, actually.”
Morbidelli completed in eleventh place on the Crimson Bull Ring.
