VR46 team director Alessio Salucci has chosen four options for the team amid uncertainty over Fabio Di Giannantonio’s future.
By Giantantonio27, has been at VR46 since his transfer from Gresini to 2024. However, the Italian’s contract expires at the end of this year.
Di Giannantonio is currently in talks with Ducati over a new contract, but cannot guarantee he will stay. VR46 When the 2027 season begins.
A claim was filed last week. Di Giannantonio Ai Ogura can be replaced by Trackhouse. If VR46 refuses to give him the same bike as Fermin Aldeguer, who is set to join him from Gresini.
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Alessio Salucci named four options for the VR46
He said recently. Motorsport ItalyVR46 team boss Salucci Di Giannantonio has revealed that he has several plans when he leaves the team.
Salucci named the likes of Luca Marini, Franco Morbidelli, Celestino Vitetti and Niccolò Bulega as options.
He said: “Of course, everything is possible here. We have a plan B, C and D. Well, as I said before, it’s a priority, and I hate to go to plan B, but in this sport, in this world and also in life, you always have to have a plan B and even C sometimes. Yes, we have.
“There’s Maro, who I don’t know if he’ll be called again. I don’t know exactly how things are going there. Franco himself, you don’t know, because in any case, we’ve worked a lot with Franco these days and he took a shift as Top Rider this morning.
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“I love Vieti, Cele is in my heart, why not Bulega? There are many, many other situations that I am not ashamed to say, I tell you, it is very interesting, but a decent time.”
“We’re working very hard, and what you do in these two months, you carry with you for the next two or three years. We’re doing the best for our team, and I hope it’s Digia, if it’s not, I’ll be very sad, but we’ll see.”
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Alessio Salucci hopes Fabio Di Giantantonio will stay at VR46 ‘for the next few years’.
Asked about Di Giannantonio’s future, Salucci said they were looking to make a ‘decent’ offer and hoped the 27-year-old would stay.
He said: “First of all, I’m very happy, I’m happy because I remember two years ago when we took him, he had nothing, and we believed him, we believed him, now they’re giving me a new market, I’m happy.”
“On the other hand, things are a bit more complicated. We take care of him, we take care of him, he takes care of us, we are trying to build the supply that he deserves today, both technically and economically.
“We hope to succeed, and we hope he chooses to stay with us for the next few years.”
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