Andrea Iannone says the only l⭕imit he has on the Ducati GP23 “is me” following his f♏irst MotoGP race in five years and admits “I’m not ready for this bike”.

The one-time grand pri🎉x winner put in a solid performance on Saturday morning in Malaysian Grand Prix qualifying to put his VR46-run Ducati 17th on the grid, just 0.548s off top spot in Q1.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:In his first MotoGP contest of any kind since serving his four-year doping ban, Iannone was second-to-last in the🔴 sprint and 13 seconds from the next-best Ducati, which was team-matཧe Marco Bezzecchi.

Asked by ltxcn.top how he found his first race since Valencia 2019, Iannone replied: “Difficult. But MotoGP is like this and youဣ need to understand tജhis situation.

“So, it’s after a long, long time. Five year🐈s, it’s completely changed. It’s another story.꧟”

Iannone added that he was able to understand better how to extract𒁃 speed from a modern MotoGP bike, but 🌞says the biggest limit remains his physical condition.

“Today I understood the limit,” he said.

“The more you push, the more the bike is better. It’s like ൩this, impressive. The more charge you put on the bike, the more speed you have and the more grip the bike has.

“But ✨the limit, for me, ཧat the moment the package is really good, the garage work really well.

“The guys, the team is amazing. It’s like a factory team. The꧃ limit is me, my physical co🦩ndition. I’m not ready for this bike.”

When comparing MotoGP and World Superbikes, Iannone likened the lat𝓰ter to “a bicycle” in t🃏erms of the physical requirements.

Looking ahead to the 20-lap grand prix on Sunday, Iannone says🦹 managing his strength will be more critical than tyre conservation.

“I need to manage my drop - not the t🦩yౠres,” he joked.

“The drop of the tyres, the garage manages.💞 But I need to manage Andrea. I need to dec𒊎ide: to make five laps like a king, or to do 20 laps like a nobody.

“This is the question. I possibly start like qualifying, I make five laps unbelievable. In th💟e end, I go in the garage, [say] ‘guys, the best five laps of my life’. But the race fi♔nish. Sprint of sprint.”

Bezzecchi offers helping hand in qualifying

Iannone followed his VR46 team-mate M꧟arco Bezzecchi in the Q1 session and believes without a mistake on his best lap 𒉰that he could have gone “two tenths, two tenths and a half” quicker.

Asked if he learned anything following♉ Bezzecchi, Iannone said: “Yes, I think I also have the speed. After a long time, my speed is intact, more or less. It’s quite good.”

B💛ezzecchi revealed Iannone asked him ahead of qualifying if he could use the three-time grand prix winner as a r⛎eference, which the former obliged.

“He yesterday he asked me if he could start behind me, and I said ‘yes, for sure’,” Bezzecchi, who was 10th in the sprint, said. 
“I knew he could go very fast in one lap. He made an amazing lap time con🦂sidering he wasn🍌’t riding MotoGP for almost five years.

“So, I was quite surprised by the lap time. Fortunately he didn’t beat me. We spoke a🦩 bit and he’s a f🌄ucking good guy, so I like.”