Fabio di Giannantonio

In 2024 di Giannantonio remains aboard a Ducati, however, the Italian does so with the VR46 outfit.

One of the best riders to close out the 2023 season, di Giannantonio appeared to be heading back to Moto2 before his results were enough to secure a ride alongside Marco Bezzecchi.

di Giannantonio secured his maiden MotoGP win at the 2023 Qatar grand prix, when he got the better of eventual champion Pecco Bagnaia. 

Fabio di Giannantonio - Route to MotoGP

After race wins in both the Moto3 and Moto2 classes for Gresini, either side of a pair of Moto2 seasons spent with Speed Up, Fabio di Giannantonio moved up to the premier-class with the revised Gresini Ducati team in 2022.

Although the 23-year-old didn't win a world championship in the smaller classes, he finished title runner-up in the 2018 Moto3 series.

di Giannantonio got his MotoGP career off to a promising start by being the fastest rookie on his debut at the Jerez test in November. 

After a mixed debut MotoGP season, Fabio di Giannantonio remains with the Gresini Ducati team for 2023.

While unable to approach the heroics of four-time race-winning team-mate Enea Bastianini, di Giannantonio made the most of tricky weather conditions at Mugello to snatch a shock pole position, only his second in grand prix racing!

The middle stages of the season were certainly his most rewarding, di Giannantonio taking the year-old GP21 to points in five of seven rounds, including an eighth place in Germany.

But the momentum suddenly disappeared and, in a repeat of his difficult start to the season, six non-scores followed.

di Giannantonio made his frustration clear with an emotional social media post before boarding the flight back from the penultimate round at Sepang, then salvaged 15th place at the Valencia finale.

'Diggia' worked with Joan Mir's 2020 title-winning Suzuki crew chief Frankie Carchedi in 2023, where he jumped aboard the GP22 Ducati alongside new team-mate Alex Marquez.