Fabio Di Gianna🀅ntonio’s 2024 MotoGP season presented a bit of a mixed bag, but the Italian still reckons it was a solid year.

Di Giannantonio ended the 2023 season with a victory in Qatar 🔯and a podium finish in Valencia, at least before the latter was taken away for a tyre pressure violation.

He’d seemed to be out of MotoGP before those end-of-year results, which earned him a ride with the VR46 Ducati teamꦚ for 2024 alongside Marco Bezzecchi.

Although it was Bezzecch🀅i who scored the team’s only podium in 2024, Di Giannantonio was much more consistent, finishing between fourth and seventh in all but one race in the first half of the season, before ending his season with two fourths in Australia and Thailand.

His early departure from the 2024 season was brought about by a practice crash in Austria. He was forced to withdraw from the race at the Red Bull Ring due to a shoulder injury, and later it was deemed that ending his season with two rounds to go in order to have surgery on that shoulder would allow him the best opportunity of starting 2025🥂 as close to full fitness as possible.

When he was fit enough to race, Di Giannantonio’s performances were strong enough on a frequent enough basis to earn himself a factory-spec Desmosedici GP25 for next season, making him the only satellite rider to have a Ducati of the same specification as the ꦍfactory team’s Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez in 2025.

As a result, Di Giannantonio said he’s “going to give 8/🎉10” as a score for his season, in a video posted to social media by the VR46 🎉Ducati team.

“I t꧅hink my level of riding this year has been quite high,” he explained.

“I’ve been really strong and consistent through all the season. But we al༒ways missed something to be on t꧙he podium, so 8/10.

His best race, he said, came at the 𒅌same place as his first podium, scored in 20💧23: Phillip Island.

“Phillip Island, P4, because we ga♍ve a great show,” he said. “We were𒀰 really fast, we had a strong pace, and we were really close to be on the podium.”