After nine laps of this Sunday’s German GP, Fabio Di Giannantonio saw bad luck knocking on his door and was forced to retire due to a problem with the bike, which he explained was due to the loss of rear grip, although it requires further analysis.
The Italian, who everything leads us to believe will have renewed, or will be well on his way to do so, with the VR46 Racing Team, regretted what happened to his bike as he even felt better from a physical point of view, after the many difficulties experienced on Saturday: ‘A pity, the first retirement for me in the Sunday race of 2024. I’m sorry, with my shoulder I was better today [yesterday, sunday], we did a great job with the physiotherapist. The start wasn’t perfect, but I didn’t lose contact with the group and I stayed there’.
DiGia completed only 9 laps, of the 30 total in the race, due to a problem with the Desmosedici, which deserves even more time for analysis: ‘Suddenly then, I started to lose grip on the rear: we are checking the data, we don’t know exactly what happened yet. I lost pressure, I also got an alarm on the dashboard, and it was really dangerous to continue. On the outside the tire seems ok, but we can’t rule out that it’s something on the rim’.
Still, overall and looking at the season so far, the result is good: ‘I’m sorry to have closed the first part of the season like this, but the balance so far is definitely positive’.