VR46 MotoGP rider Fabio Di Giannantonio admits that Ducati’s 2025 package deal “may have been higher” as “our rivals are working in an effective way”.
Ducati will finish the 2025 season as treble winners after Marc Márquez and the manufacturing facility group dominated a lot of the marketing campaign.
With three races remaining, Ducati has achieved 16 Grand Prix wins in GP25 and GP24.
Nevertheless, Ducati didn’t have a simple pre-season for the 2025 bike. Resulting from uncertainty over the brand new engine’s efficiency forward of a two-year growth freeze, it was determined to put in the most recent 2024 specification as a substitute.
And whereas Marquez has been dominant, each Pecco Bagnaia and Fabio Di Giannantonio have been far much less constant in GP25.
All this comes as Aprilia closes the hole to Ducati on the high and threatens to finish 2025 with the most effective bike on the grid.
Di Giannantonio acknowledged the rising menace to Ducati, however stated this was “a part of racing”.
“I feel our rivals are undoubtedly working in an effective way,” he stated after ending second on the Australian Grand Prix.
“We discovered that each one producers are closing the hole with us.
“We knew that Ducati had an enormous hole in opposition to different producers, however now Ducati is both nearer to us or forward of us.
“Each Honda and Yamaha are shut, as you may see from Quartararo’s 5 pole positions this 12 months.
“So, actually, now we have to work. Actually, the work we did this 12 months may have been higher.”
“But it surely’s a part of racing, it’s a part of the sport.
“We, VR46 and Ducati are an enormous group and we’re all the time working exhausting to make our bikes higher, higher and higher.
“I can’t wait to work on the ’26 bike and see if we are able to enhance it and maintain it other than the remainder.”
