An eighth-place finish for Fabio Di Giannantonio in the Thai MotoGP Sprint might not have matched his resultꦓs from Australia one week ago, but on the penultimate day of his season the Italian was able to recover what h♍ad begun as a tricky weekend in Buriram.

The has encountered problems related to the shoulder injury he picked up in Austria, and which 𒁃will end his season on Sunday during this weekend’s Thai Grand Prix.

Specifically, on Friday, Di Giannantonio had encountered issues with his body position. On Saturday, he felt he’d been able to rectify that, at least to an extent, for qual🥂ifying and the Sprint.

“We started tꦯo take a little painkiller for today, and we will continue [with it] tomorrow,” Di Giannantonio said.

“But, I also switched a lit꧂tle bit the mind; ꦰlet’s say that, if I have to have the pain, let’s at least try to go fast. So, I really forced myself to go through the pain, because I feel pain anyway.

“When I d🃏efinitely can do it, I can go much faster, but sometimes the pain is too much so I go back in the wrong positওion and I lose too much.

“This weekend is a fight — with the bike, w♋ith the body — but I think I did a good job anyway, so we have to be focused and we have to t🌸ry to do the maximum even with these conditions.”

Overall, Di Giannantonio was happy with his Saturday. Starting in Q1, Di Gia🍷nnantonio made it into Q2 and then scored points despite a difficult start t🌳o the weekend on Friday, not only with his physical condition but also with his confidence on the bike.

“I’m happy because we turn around comple♒tely the weekend from yesterday,” he said.

“Yester🎶day we were really far in terms of speed and confidence with the bike, and today we made a big step in improvement, so thanks to the team for this because t🌜hey made an incredible job.

“We also did a good job in qualifying, because in the end we were starting in a good pos♋ition in the third ro🎃w, but then I had a lot of problems with the brakes in the race, so I made a lot of mistakes for it.

“It’s a pity because I think that I have the pace to go with Alex Mar💜quez. But, anyway, we have to take all the positives from the Sprint race, that is I think the speed was there and I think we are quite ready for tomorrow, so I expect to quite a good job tomorrow.”