The Gresini Ducati rider at the moment finds himself and not using a place on the 2024 grid when the staff confirmed in October that it had signed Marc Marquez, after he elected to give up Honda on the finish of the yr.
Simply as this occurred, Di Giannantonio burst into the very best type of his two seasons in MotoGP, scoring a maiden podium in Australia earlier than profitable the Qatar Grand Prix final week.
After that Qatar race, Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti advised motogp.com it was “unacceptable” that Di Giannantonio could possibly be left and not using a trip for subsequent season.
Nevertheless, with Luca Marini set to hitch Honda subsequent yr as Marquez’s substitute, Di Giannantonio appears to be like set to take the Italian’s place at VR46 Ducati.
Commenting on the state of affairs on Thursday on the season-ending Valencia GP, Di Giannantonio mentioned: “Yeah, I used to be tremendous proud concerning the phrases of Paolo.
“He has been so good with me. For example that I got here right here with an helmet and a go well with to attempt to check on Tuesday.
“We’re engaged on one thing cool and we have now good possibilities to check on Tuesday, and we have now additionally now some somewhat extra likelihood to be on the grid subsequent yr.”
He added: “Yeah, for instance that since that bike is the one bike out there – as soon as Luca decides to make the announcement (he mentioned jokingly) – for certain it is an amazing staff.
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Fabio Di Giannantonio, Gresini Racing
“I by no means hid that their work behind the scenes is wonderful, all of the work they do collectively, all the blokes, all of the workers they’ve.
“They’ve at all times been tremendous good. They joined MotoGP from Moto3, to Moto2 after which step to MotoGP.
“They usually’ve at all times been tremendous good in each class. So, meaning it is a actually good staff. It might be a very good expertise, a very good problem for me and a very good alternative to study issues.”
Marini had nothing new to supply on his future plans, stating: “I believe information will come quickly. So, there may be not many issues I can say in the intervening time. So, we’ll see within the subsequent few days.”
