Superbike returns with the Misano Adriatico event at the weekend. And there will also be the 34-year-old rider from Vasto Andrea Iannone, protagonist of a good start to the season after the long disqualification for doping.
“The Maniac” returned to racing with excellent results, becoming one of the potential contenders to win the Superbike World Championship. In his debut in the series derivatives at Phillip Island, Australia, the Goeleven team representative reached the podium.
In the last race in Assen, Holland, he finished in fourth place on April 21st. In the general classification Iannone is sixth with 64 points. In short, he is back as a protagonist and in an increasingly incandescent MotoGP rider market full of twists and turns for 2025, the new bolt from the blue could come from WorldSBK. «I think he can also have options in MotoGP and has to decide what he wants for his career», said Denis Sacchetti of Team GoEleven. «There is the option to stay in the team. It is a one-year contract with an option for a second year. He must decide whether to accept the option or not. It depends on what he wants to do. His future does not depend on us, but on him and on Ducati and perhaps on other manufacturers who have much more power than us.” In recent days Iannone trained on the Franciacorta track with the kart. «Every day there is something new», Andrea Iannone said in recent weeks, «because every day something changes. It’s normal, it doesn’t just apply to me. But I think it’s early, I’m focused on the championship now. After the round in Misano I will start deciding about my future. In the meantime, we need to understand whether I will stay in Superbike or not. This is the first thing, then we’ll see the rest.” It is a moment in Iannone’s life in which motorbikes and racing are not the only priorities, there are others. For example, the love life with the consolidated bond with the singer Elodie and the commercial activities to follow.
BMW is interested in the Go Eleven team driver. An interest that flatters him, although he would also like to understand if there is the possibility of moving to the Aruba Ducati team in the event that Alvaro Bautista decides to retire. There has been no shortage of rumors regarding a possible return to MotoGP. The hypothesis of a return to the Pramac team had been leaked, but at this moment it has yet to make official what it will do in 2025-2026: renewal with Ducati or move to Yamaha? (rc)
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