Andrea Iannone spotted riding a Ducati but teases “just a day with friends”
The ex-MotoGP rider is currently nearing the end of a four-year doping ban and would be eligible toꦉ compete in the 2024 season.
Iannone was spotted on a Panigale V4R, riding alongside Ducati’s test rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michele Pirro, at the Marco Simoncelli Circuit in Misano.
“I’m happy, I’m onlꦚy doing a few laps,” he teased.
“It’s just a w❀ork-out. Today is just a day of fun with friends, that’s all.”
Last month, Iannone crashed during a test day at Vallelunga while rid🍒ing an Aprilia RSV4. He went to hospital but escaped any significant injury.
Pirro said: “At Va🌳llelunga he did not lap much. I phoned him to invite him here. He remembers ve꧑ry well how to do it…”
Iannone spent th🤪e first four years of his MotoGP career as a Ducati rider, with Pirro as his test rider, between 2013-16 before moving onto Suzuki an♕d Aprilia.
The sight of Iannone oꦓn aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ red bike is another indicator that he is taking a potential return to competition seriously.
Avenues back i🐭nto MotoGP look impossible for ❀2024 but World Superbikes remains an option.
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