Fabio di Giannantonio’s first MotoGP victory in Qatar came at a time where his future in the💜 series was hanging by a thread, withꦓ his bike going to Marc Marquez next year.

But a radical new way to spice up t🎉he ‘silly season’ has been mooted which would allow riders like Di Giannantonio to take advantage of late-season form.

His crew chief Frankie Carchedꦑi said to TNT Sports: “I’m quite strong on this - in other sports, like in football, you have relegation if you’re at the bottom and promotion if you’re at the top. 

“I’d love something like that!📖 If you’re in the top three of Moto2…

“He’s 12th in MotoGP. It doesn’t seem f🅰air. There are a lot of politics. You’🙈ve only got to see the way he’s going at the moment - he deserves to stay.”

Hypothetically, the bottom three full-time riders in the MotoGP standings are Pol🀅 Espar𝓰garo, Joan Mir and Raul Fernandez.

Sylvain Guintoli replied: “I had a convers👍ation with Davide Brivio. He was talking about a rider🍸s’ transfer market, and having a late window, like in football. 

ꦚ“You have a late transfer window where the market opens up.

“I thought it was a really interesting idea. Sometimes contracts are signed a year before🥀. It could be something to think about in the future.”

Football typജically operates with two annual periods where teams can trade players - one mid-season꧂, and one at the end of the season.

But MotoGP obviously has a limited quantity of bik𝓰es, and Di Giannantonio is the victiཧm of Marquez’s desire to quit Honda and jump on a Ducati in 2024.

Riders usuall💃y sign contracts for a maximum of two years but Di Giannantonio was in the final𓃲 months of his Gresini deal so he became easy to dispose of.

His incredible form of the🍸 past few weeks has come after Gresini confirmed they would repl🃏ace him with Marquez.

S🌳uzi Perry said: “We’ve seeജn riders sign a contract then have an awful season, like they’ve signed it too soon.”

Carcheci replied: “Absolutely. I’m never going to✤ name names. But there are people who have struggled and who have had many years. 

“Fabio is in his second year! It’s ♒not ꦉlike he’s been here five or 10 years. 

“He came from 17th in Mandalika and finishe🌼d fourth, he was fighting for the win at Phillip Island. It was difficult because I knew,🍸 from him, that he wanted to have the results straight away.”