Marco Bezzecchi
Fabio Di Giannantonio hit the summer break after a weekend he will want to forget at Brno as the VR46 rider failed to earn any points in the Czech Grand Prix or Sprint Race.
MotoGP’s first visit to Brno since the 2020 campaign yielded one of the 26-year-old’s worst weekends in a long time. Di Giannantonio had a miserable time in the rain on Friday, and his efforts did not improve with P13 in qualifying, a crash in the Sprint and P16 in the Czech GP.
A clutch issue put Di Giannantonio further on his back foot at the start of the Sprint, before he crashed with six laps to go. The Czech GP would then prove to be another sorry event, as Di Giannantonio slipped to P17 and only gained one spot back after Enea Bastianini crashed.
Fabio Di Giannantonio thinks MotoGP may have created a problem with four races in five weeks
Di Giannantonio even finished the Czech GP 24.729 seconds from Ducati ace Marc Marquez, who did the double for the eighth time this season using the same GP25 that the VR46 rider races. Marquez also leads the standings on 381 points, while Di Giannantonio is fifth on 142.
But while Di Giannantonio crashed out of P2 in the German Grand Prix and then had a Czech GP to forget, he does not want to blame his recent poor form on the 2025 MotoGP calendar boasting four rounds in five weeks before the summer as ‘everyone’ is in the same situation.
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Instead, with rival riders still delivering, Di Giannantonio wants to look at himself and what the Italian can do to improve his results. Yet he admits that MotoGP may have created a problem with the busy calendar, which will not resume until the Austrian Grand Prix on August 15-17.
Di Giannantonio stated, via SPEEDWEEK: “It could be, but I never blame things outside my control because I can’t control that. I want to focus on myself. Everyone else is in the same boat. I simply have to be better, which I haven’t managed.
“I have to work on myself and be more precise, like at the Sachsenring, Assen or Mugello. I have to continue giving the team the right feedback.”
Fabio Di Giannantonio is right to look at himself after a Czech Grand Prix to forget
Di Giannantonio will hope he can chalk his struggles at the Czech GP up to a lack of data on the resurfaced track at Brno, where he won in Moto3 in 2018 and came second in Moto2 in 2019. But, just like with the calendar, every rider was ‘in the same boat’ in that regard, too.
So, the Italian is right to look at himself for a way to respond to a Czech GP to forget over the summer break. But Di Giannantonio will likely also wish the first event back was at a happier hunting ground than at the Red Bull Ring, having rarely enjoyed his trips to the Austrian GP.
Di Giannantonio has never enjoyed a podium finish at the Austrian GP in any class and only has two top-10 finishes with P8 and P6 from the Moto3 races in 2016 and 2017. The VR46 rider took P11 in his first MotoGP Austrian GP in 2022, P17 in 2023 and did not start in 2024.
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