Di Giannantonio is the unfortunate victim of Marquez’s will to quit Repsol Honda in favour of teaming with his brother Alex Marquez in ܫ2024 in the Ducati satellite team.

He spent weeks🌠 hearing rumours of his inevitable axing before it was con🦋firmed.

“I was so sad! So sad,” di Giannantonio told .

“I really put everything into 𒅌this team. Because I really wanted to achieve the main goal with this team.

“Bu🦩t, then, the other side?🐼 Marc Marquez is the game. We are perfectionists so this can happen.

“It is normal that [there is] a market.

“I didn’t like how the t🌳eam manageඣd the situation, honestly.

“They could have had more trust in me, honestly.

“In m🔴e, and [crew chief Frankie Carchedi], and our work. And they could have waited a little bit more, honestly.

“Ma👍rc is📖 coming. He’s the best here. Eight-time world champion.

“It’s fine. It is what it is…”

"It's a risk" to ignore other offers

Di Giannantonio, since his exit from Gresini was confirmꩲed, has enjoyed a fine run of form.

H🅘e was fourth in India then on the podium for the first time in Australia last weekend.

Those performances give di Giannantonio hope that he could snatch a last-gasp second-chance to keep his MotoGP career alive.

Marquez’s Repsol Honda is the only available bike in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2024 MotoGP rider line-up but, should they recruit𝕴 Miguel Oliveira, th𒊎en an opportunity crops up at RNF.

Di Giannantonio hasn’t thought about Moto2 or World Superbikes yet: “At this moment, we just h꧂ad to [get] results because we don’t have anything for next year. Nothing for the future.

“Let’s focus on the results then we’ll see. If we do good things, the🔯n good things will come. No?

“It’s what we’re trying to do, at the moment.

“At the moment, I never took into consideration other options in other clไasse﷽s because the goal is to stay in MotoGP.

“Once I am 100% sure that I c💛annot be in MotoGP, I will consider other things.

💧“It’s a risk but I want to take this risk for MotoGP.

“At the moment, I don’t have a clear plan.”

ꦆThe past few weeks, caught up in the frenzy around Marquez, have been horrible for di Giannantonio.

“This period has been tough, in a way,” he said.

“On-track I am super happy aboutಌ what I’m doing this year.

“I’m growing so much, doing thin🍬gs that last year I was not capable of.

“To improve like this, to arrive step-by-step…

“Outside of this? Everything about kicking ꦇme off for next season.”

In India he broke 🙈down in tears after finishing fourth and was consoled by Ducati’s Paolo Ciabatti.

“I saw my dreams [going] away,” he reflected.

“I reached a little goal, to be closer to the front. In parc ferme in that moment, it waౠs ♑revenge.

“But on my🐼self. Not to anyone. Just to myself. ♋With some tears!”

'Frankie Carchedi one of the best and most professional'

His crew chief, Frankie C𝕴archedi, who won the 2020 championship with Joan Mir at Suzuki, will work ꦏalongside Marquez next year.

“I worked �𝓡�with a few crew chiefs in my life,” di Giannantonio said.

“Frankie is one of the best and most professional guys 💦that I have worked with.

“Sometimes we think♑ the same thing. It helps a lo൩t.

“I was on trac🧜k thinking ‘maybe I need this’. I came to the box⭕ and said ‘Frankie, I need this…’

“‘Perfect, let’s try…’

“It makes faster steps.”

Last year was di Giannantonio’s first in the ♛premier class, a season where snatching pole position at his home race, the Italian MotoGP,♛ was a highlight.

“It was an amazing, a pole𝔍 position in my rookie year in front of a home croꦯwd,” he said.

“We built the team, honestly, together from zero.

“It was a☂ [big] step. The team was completely new.

“I🎃t ruined the year! I was a rookie, my technicians were rookies. So it was di🦄fficult to be against the best in the business with a full rookie team.”