
Regardless of being taken out of the Austin dash race by Marc Marquez on Saturday, in-form VR46 Ducati man Fabio Di Giannantonio had zero curiosity in dwelling on the incident afterwards.
The Italian had certified on pole place for the second straight weekend, solely to be punted out of third place by a crashing Marquez halfway by way of the primary lap.
Marquez will face an extended lap penalty in Sunday’s grand prix because of the incident. He was clearly responsible and admitted as a lot.
“I all the time attempt to be truthful,” stated the seven-time world champion. “I did a mistake and I have to have a penalty. Tomorrow I’ll try this penalty.”
Di Giannantonio’s dash misfortune couldn’t be undone by any penalty, after all, however he was decided to maintain the larger image in thoughts forward of the US GP.
“There are too many positives,” stated the Roman rider, who will line up first once more on Sunday. “I haven’t got time to be indignant…”
“I am at among the best tracks on this planet, using in opposition to the perfect and ranging from pole place, [breaking] the monitor file only a few hours in the past. So how can somewhat episode destroy all that, ?
“It is just a bit impediment on our approach to attempt to win races. Tomorrow, we have now one other probability, so the main target is basically on that.
“I believe we have executed [too] many optimistic and nice issues on monitor to focus solely on that exact second of the dash.”
Marquez and Di Giannantonio traded a couple of phrases in between their press briefings
One other optimistic Di Giannantonio can be completely satisfied to dream about was his move on Marquez only a few moments earlier than the race-ending incident. That got here at Flip 7, within the coronary heart of the troublesome sequence of S-bends early within the lap. It additionally had echoes of his satisfying transfer on Marquez in Brazil every week earlier.
“I am tremendous pleased with that one,” he grinned. “, it is not a simple move on anyone [there]. You go from the proper to the left, you need to be actually exact as a result of there are a variety of bumps and totally different inclination of the monitor. So I am pleased with that one, above all.”
Photographs from United States GP – Saturday
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