Andrea Iannone spotted riding a Ducati but teases “just a day with friends”
The ex-MotoGP rider is currently neari🌳ng the end of a four-year doping ban and would be eligible to comp𓂃ete in the 2024 season.
Iannone was spotted on a Panigale V4R, riding alongside Ducati’s test rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michele Pirro, at the Marco Simoncelli Circuit in Misano.
“I’m happy, I’m𒉰 only doing a few laps,” he teased.
“It’s just a work-out. Today i🥂s just a day of fun with friends, t🍬hat’s all.”
Last month, Iannone crashed d🥂uring a test day at Vallelu꧃nga while riding an Aprilia RSV4. He went to hospital but escaped any significant injury.
Pirro said: “At Vallelunga he d🧜id not la♛p much. I phoned him to invite him here. He remembers very well how to do it…”
Iaꦗnnone spent the first four years of his MotoGP career as a Ducati rider, with Pirro as his test rider, between 2013-16 before moving onto Suzuki and Aprilia.
The sight of Iannone on a red bike is another indicator that he is taking a potential return t🐓o competition seriously.
Avenues back into MotoGP look impossible fღor 2024 but World Super♔bikes remains an option.
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