Fabio Di Giannantonio refuses to let Marc Marquez dash blunder get him down

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 the primary lap.

Marquez will face a protracted 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 honest,” mentioned the seven-time world champion. “I did a mistake and I must have a penalty. Tomorrow I’ll do this penalty.”

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Di Giannantonio’s dash misfortune couldn’t be undone by any penalty, in fact, however he was decided to maintain the larger image in thoughts forward of the US GP.

“There are too many positives,” mentioned the Roman rider, who will line up first once more on Sunday. “I haven’t got time to be offended…”

“I am at among the best tracks on the earth, using towards the perfect and ranging from pole place, [breaking] the monitor document only a few hours in the past. So how can a bit episode destroy all that, you recognize?

“It is just a bit impediment on our solution to attempt to win races. Tomorrow, we’ve one other likelihood, so the main focus is actually on that.

“I believe we have executed [too] many optimistic and nice issues on monitor to focus solely on that specific second of the dash.”

Marquez and Di Giannantonio traded just a few phrases in between their press briefings

One other optimistic Di Giannantonio will likely be comfortable 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 tough 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. “You realize, it isn’t a simple move on anyone [there]. You go from the suitable to the left, it’s important to be actually exact as a result of there are a number of bumps and totally different inclination of the monitor. So I am pleased with that one, above all.”

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