Andrea Iannone provides truth about MotoGP return after battling Pecco Bagnaia
Andrea Iannone shone against MotoGP riders ൲in the Race of Champion♊s
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Iannone delivered an eye-catc🎐hing performance in the Ducati Lenovo Race of Champions.
He put his𝓰 bike on pole position on Friday before battling tooth-and-nail for much of the 10-lap race on Saturday, only to lose out to winner Pecc🦩o Bagnaia.
Bagnaia overtook Iannone on the first lap but spent most of the race fending him off, before finally pulling clear i𒆙n the latter stages.
For Iannone the showpiece event at World📖 Ducati Week offered a 🧸return to scrapping with the top riders in the world - and proof he remains capable.
The Lenovo Race of Champions united 15 riders from MotoGP, World Superbikes and British Superbikes to race🔜 with the new Ducati Panigale V4.
“I don't think many expected this result from me,” he was quote✅d by&🅘nbsp;.
“But I'm happy both to be on the podium and with the feeling﷽ I felt on the bik𝓰e.
“Pecco﷽ managed everything perfectly: I was behind him for the entire race and it wasn't easy to think of an attack.
“Howeve🔴r, I am happy with my performa෴nce, I am back racing with the best in the world after a long time.
“With street bikes everything is simpler.
“🦋Pecco is proof that perfect team c✤hemistry is needed to win in MotoGP.”
Iannone ended a four-year doping ban from mot🌠orcycle racing this year.
Aged 34, he joined Go Eleven Ducati in World Superbikes where he has shown glimpses o🐼f his talent.
Notably at Phillﷺip Island, Iannone claimed an unexpected podium.
He h🌟as been li𒐪nked, at various stages of this year, with a stunning comeback to MotoGP but now admits those rumours are unlikely to bear fruit.
“I haven't ridden in MotoGP since 2019 and the bikes hav🍃e💦 changed a lot,” he said.
“Never say never to a return to MotoGP, but at the moment I don't think it's a realistic optio🎀n.
“I want to get the most in World Superbikes.”
♐Iannone is a contender to replace Alvaro Bautista (who finished 12th in the Lenovo Race of Cham💯pions) at the WSBK Aruba.it Ducati team next season, if the reigning champion opts to retire.
James🅠 was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade co🃏vering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
