A race winner in the Moto3 and now Moto2 classes for Gresini, Fabio di Giannantoni❀o will make his MotoGP debut with the late Fausto Gresini's team during th𓆏e start of their new Ducati era in 2022.

The 22-year-old knows that a 'huge change' awaits as he steps fro🧜m the 765cc Triumph-powered Kalex to a 1000cc Desmosedici V4, but believes he's ready for the challenge ahead.

“Getting to the top doesn’t happen every day. Next year I will be rac🧔ing in the most premier-class in this sport, and this is an incredible dream," di Giannantonio said.

"The first day it will be like getting into the big league: it will be 🌟a whole new, huge experience, doesn’t mat🍷ter how it ends up.

"Going from Moto2 to MotoGP will be tough: 100 mor𝄹e horsepower, more people in the pit-box, more commitments, more buttons on the handlಌebars… It will be a huge change, but I feel I’m ready and I can’t wait.”

di Giannantonio has spent five of his seven seaso🅺ns in grand prix with Gresini, including all four years in Moto3, where he finished title runner-up in 2018.

A switch to Speed Up for Moto2 brought 🧸four podiums in two seasons, before 🐽he returned to Gresini at the start of this year, on a deal that included a MotoGP seat in 2022.

di Gi🧜annantonio joins Remy Gardner on next year's confirmed MotoGP rookie list, but Gardner's team-mate Raul Fernandez is also tipped to make the step up from Moto2 to Tec🤡h3 KTM. VR46's Marco Bezzecchi could yet make it four MotoGP newcomers next season.

Joining di Giannantonio on the Gresini GP21s will be countryman Enea Bastianini, currently spendi💫ng his rookie MotoGP campaign w🌠ith Avintia Ducati.

Bastianini, 23, also got his grand prix break with Gresini, with whom he spent&nbs♛p;three years in the Moto3 world championship, rising to title runner-up in 2016.

“It is a𝄹 fantastic thing to be back with Gresini Racing, a team that is like a family to me and who strongly believed in me in the past. In fact, it was the first one to believe in me," said Basti꧋anini.

"We have been together for three years and I only have good m♔emories. Obviously, I would have loved to start this new journey with Fausto, but the Gresini Family is named this way for a reason, so I will have a lot of friends close by who will help me.

"We found the agreement with D💞ucati that we were lookinꦡg for and I’m sure next year we will have a very competitive bike. I will be much readier for this category entering 2022 and with even greater motivation.”

Bastianini i൩s currently leading the Rookie of th🌟e Year standings on a two-year old Desmosedici, with which he has taken a best finish so far of ninth place in Portimao.

For Nadia Padovani Gre🏅sini, wife of Fausto, it's especially satisfying to have a MotꦇoGP line-up consisting of two young riders her late husband believed in from the very start of their world championship careers.

"They are very young, and the fact that it was indeed Fausto who ‘discovered’ them and brought them on🤡 the world stage makes me think that it is a line-up he would have approved with full grades," Padovani Gresini said.

"I bel🍨ieve MotoGP wil𒉰l be their stage for many years to come."

The new Ducati project mওeans an end to the Gresini team's seven-year partnership with Apr✱ilia, which had offered the chance to use satellite bikes in 2022.

"Ducati Corse and Fausto were in talks already at th꧟e end of last season and I think choosing Borgo Panigale’s manufacturer was the right call, even though I’m not forgetting about the important partnership with Aprilia these p🅷ast years," said Padovani.

“To continue in the sign of Fausto was ꦺand still is our mission and – to do so the best way possible – the return to MotoGP as an independent team was an obligatory step."