Fabio Di Giannantonio (4th) wants to become calmer: “I’ll be doing yoga at home”

Fabio Di Giannantonio put in a consistently strong performance throughout the weekend in Brno. The VR46 rider secured second place on the grid in qualifying. He crossed the finish line in fourth place in both the Sprint and the Grand Prix.

In Sunday’s main race, ‘Diggia’ got off to a good start – he entered the first corner behind pole-setter Ai Ogura (Trackhouse Aprilia). Champion Marc Marquez (Ducati Levono) was closing in from behind. After a few corners, Marquez overtook Di Giannantonio. The Italian then ran into trouble and dropped several places. By the end of the first lap, Di Giannantonio was down to sixth place.

Di Giannantonio then began his comeback. On the third lap, he overtook the strong rookie Diogo Moreira (LCR Honda). On lap 13, he overtook Pedro Acosta (KTM) at Turn 7. Di Giannantonio went on to finish in fourth place. Marc Marquez, Ogura and Pecco Bagnaia were too far ahead; even the fastest lap towards the end of the 21-lap race did not help the Roman rider to threaten the top three. Although he did get dangerously close to Bagnaia on the final lap.

Fabio Di Giannantonio und Diogo Moreira

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Di Giannantonio not satisfied with his performance

“I simply have to be better in certain situations,” Di Giannantonio admitted. “I made a mistake on the first lap when Marc overtook me. I wanted to be ahead of him and everyone else. I wasn’t calm enough, opened the throttle too early in the third corner, and my rear wheel slipped out from under me. Then I didn’t get through corners 4 and 5 ideally and lost a few positions. That’s where I ruined my race.”

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Commenting on his comeback, Di Giannantonio said: “A comeback is always spectacular and puts on a good show. I went on to set the fastest lap of the race, but you don’t get any points for that. I simply have to be better. It was a weekend where I learnt a lot. In terms of results, I could have achieved more. I didn’t manage it, so now I can think about it at home.”

Willkommen zum Rennen in Brünn

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Paddock

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Die Fahrer

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Fans

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Diogo Moreira

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Abkühlung

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Martin und Ogura

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Luca Marini

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Paddock

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Pecco Bagnaia

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Vor dem Start

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Grid Girl

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Start des Rennens

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Jorge Martin

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Enea Bastianini

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Fans

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Francesco Bagnaia

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Ai Ogura

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Di Giannantonio und Acosta

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Verpflegung

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Diogo Moreira

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Marc Márquez und Pecco Bagnaia

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Di Giannantonio und Moreira

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Marc Márquez gewinnt das Rennen

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Sieger Márc Marquez

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Ai Ogura, Marc Márquez, Pecco Bagnaia

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Sieger Marc Márquez

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“In the main races, I always struggle a bit in the opening laps,” the 27-year-old continued. “We’re trying to work out what we can do about it with the bike. The balance changes a lot from the start to the end of the race. I’m much faster towards the end. But this Sunday, it was because I wasn’t calm enough.”

Di Giannantonio was therefore self-critical. How does one learn to stay calmer during a race? “I’ll do some yoga at home,” he laughed. “I need to learn to manage situations like this better. By taking a clever approach on the bike, I need to learn not to lose too much time.”

Third place in the World Championship standings consolidated

Following a poor race weekend in Hungary, where he was knocked off his bike by Jorge Martin in the Grand Prix, Di Giannantonio was able to consolidate third place in the World Championship standings with two fourth-place finishes in Brno. He is now just 23 points behind the leader, Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia). His strength this year is his consistency. Whilst his rivals keep making mistakes, ‘Diggia’ regularly picks up valuable points. “Two fourth-place finishes are good for consistency, but not necessarily brilliant in terms of results. But in such a long championship, fourth-place finishes are important too – if you can’t finish second or first,” he explained. “We’re building on that and continuing to learn. It was a positive weekend; we were able to make up a lot of points.”

At the end of the press conference, Di Giannantonio was also asked about the penalty imposed on Marco Bezzecchi. “My opinion on that isn’t important,” he dismissed. “But I was pleased with the images I saw on Sunday morning.” By this, Di Giannantonio was referring to the scene in which “Bez” apologised to the track marshal for his actions in the sprint race.