{"id":678325,"date":"2026-05-18T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:25:09","slug":"fabio-di-giannantonio-to-miss-catalunya-motogp-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678325\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio di Giannantonio to miss Catalunya MotoGP test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabio di Giannantonio will miss Monday\u2019s official Catalunya MotoGP test following his dramatic grand prix victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian secured his and VR46&#8217;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> win since 2023 despite a hand injury sustained during the initial start.<\/p>\n<p>The injury occurred when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/995149\/fabio-di-giannantonio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">di Giannantonio<\/a> was struck by debris &#8211; including the front wheel and suspension &#8211; from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/935450\/alex-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Marquez&#8217;s<\/a> destroyed Ducati.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1317022_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Fabio di Giannantonio hit by debris from Alex Marquez's bike, 2026 Catalan MotoGP.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Fabio di Giannantonio hit by debris from Alex Marquez&#8217;s bike, 2026 Catalan MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>di Giannantonio defied the pain to take the race lead with three laps to go in the final restart.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/pertamina-enduro-vr46-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> VR46<\/a> statement read:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter yesterday\u2019s crash at the #CatalanGP, the Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team and Fabio Di Giannantonio have agreed not to participate in today\u2019s test day at Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya and to focus on recovery ahead of the next GP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1316810_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Fabio di Giannantonio, 2026 Catalan MotoGP.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Fabio di Giannantonio, 2026 Catalan MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>di Giannantonio joins Alex Marquez, Johann Zarco and Marc Marquez in missing the final official test of the 1000cc era.<\/p>\n<p>Team-mate Franco Morbidelli will be VR46&#8217;s only rider on track, with his satellite-spec GP25 machine.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The next round of the 2026 season is the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello from 29-31 May.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabio di Giannantonio will miss Monday\u2019s official Catalunya MotoGP test following his dramatic grand prix victory on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,15118,806,805,803,804,15119,85],"class_list":["post-678325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","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\/678325","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=678325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}