{"id":284875,"date":"2025-11-14T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284875\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:37:09","slug":"fabio-di-giannantonio-identifies-area-for-ducati-to-improve-2026-motogp-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284875\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Di Giannantonio identifies area for Ducati to improve 2026 MotoGP bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">After a season marred by inconsistency, Fabio Di Giannantonio is clear about what needs to be improved on the 2026 Ducati MotoGP bike.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Italian has been able to battle for podiums at times this year, but on other occasions has struggled to be in the top-six, and in Brno was unable to score a point.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His difficulties have been overshadowed by those of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911999\/francesco-bagnaia\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francesco Bagnaia<\/a>, but Di Giannantonio\u2019s up-and-down pattern this year has been comparable to his compatriot\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Looking to next year, it is front feeling that Di Giannantonio wants to find more of in the 2026 version of the Desmosedici GP.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe area we have to work is on the front because the bike is a super-fast bike but we have to improve the front to have a more sincere feeling where we can push,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/995149\/fabio-di-giannantonio\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabio Di Giannantonio<\/a> said on Thursday at the Valencia MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe MotoGP bike has a super-high potential, you can really go very fast, but if you don\u2019t feel it sometimes it\u2019s difficult to extract the maximum potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Di Giannantonio added that the poor front feeling he finds on the 2025 Desmosedici makes it difficult to find speed during a weekend when riding naturally is not generating lap time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLet\u2019s say that the general feeling is there is low feeling on the front,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo, when you go fast in a natural way, everything comes easier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhen you are not super-fast in a natural way and you have to find the speed from the bike, from the trust of the bike, it\u2019s really tough this year because you don\u2019t get that feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSolid\u201d Friday<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If Di Giannantonio\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> season has been one of inconsistency, it was a higher moment for him at the start of the Valencia weekend, finishing seventh in Practice to advance directly to Q2.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Di Giannantonio was also pleased with his pace on used tyres, and felt that he had more to give over one lap.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a solid day,\u201d he said after Practice on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cRace pace was pretty good today, we were quite strong with the race tyres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAlso, the time attack was good at the end; it was not the best lap of my life because I think I left a few tenths here and there in a few corners, but it was enough to be inside Q2. So, that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite the good start in Valencia, Di Giannantonio is anxious to see if that positive feeling is still there on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe took what was good from two years ago that was the last time that we arrived here and it seems that the bike is working quite good,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/pertamina-enduro-vr46-racing\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VR46 Racing Team<\/a> rider said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m always a bit scared from Friday, because we experienced many times that the feeling from Friday to Saturday is changing, but I\u2019m confident this time that we will be good also tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a season marred by inconsistency, Fabio Di Giannantonio is clear about what needs to be improved on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,15118,806,805,803,804,15119,85],"class_list":["post-284875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati","tag-fabio-di-giannantonio","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-pertamina-enduro-vr46-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}