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21 Fabio Di Giannantonio

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Fabio Di Giannantonio caused a stir in 2016 – his debut season in Grand prix – by outshining more fancied rookies Nicolo Bulega and Aron Canet across 18 races while riding for the Gresini Moto3™ squad . An expected championship challenge never quite materialised in 2017 or 2018 when riding for the same squad , although ‘ Diggia ’ showed his class by scoring two podiums in each of his two seasons riding for the Speed Up team in Moto2™ . He moves back to the Gresini Moto2 squad and a Kalex chassis for 2021 , where he is expected to challenge for the title .

44 Aron Canet

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His efforts in the Junior Moto3™ World Championship in 2015 earned Canet a seat with the Estrella Galicia 0,0 team on the world stage in 2016 , where he took a rookie podium at Phillip Island and a maiden pole at home in Valencia . He scored three victories at Jerez , Assen and Silverstone a year later . That expected title challenge never materialised in 2018 , however , but Canet switched to KTM machinery for 2019 and won three more races . His first Moto2™ campaign showed promise in 2020 but was curtailed by injury . He is an outside shot for the championship this year on the Boscoscuro chassis .

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