Both riding new machinery at Jerez, and ready f🌳or a 2024 season in new teams, next season might represent a last chance to win a championship for either rider.

Iannone, joining GoEleven Ducati af൩ter a four-year doping ban, impressed by going fifth-fastest on the second day of testing.

Rea said about 🦩Iannone: “You never know. Testing is testing, and racing is a 🍸different story.

“I spoke to him earlier. It was nice to speak. It s🉐eems that he’s excited to be here, which is 𝓰really good.

“It’s a different challenge for him, of course.

“He’s on a competitive bike.

“I didn’t 🍒see him on track but, seeing the results, he’s fast.

“Everyone knows ﷺthat. He’s a GP winner. He has an incredible CV.

ཧ“The expectation is tha🅰t he’s there, he should be there.

“He’s another guy to r❀ace at the front s🌄o it’s more exciting…”

Rea is hoping to reinvigorate his career by swapping Kawasak♚i for Yamah💙a.

Toprak Razgatlioglu is also swapping machinery - going from Yamaha to🔴 BMW - while champion Alvaro Bautista will stay on a Ducati.

But Iannone, the ex-MotoGP rider who has mis🐻sed the past four years amid a suspension, could be the w♎ildcard in the title fight.