Andrea Iannone’s practice at this weekend’s WorldSBK Portuguese Round was compromised at the beginning by a rear brake issue, but the Italian was accepting of the problem a𝓰fterꦏwards.

The Italian was not the only rider to suffer technical issues in the morning. Garret Gerloff's Kawasaki suffered an issue around mid-way through the session, and 168澳洲幸ღ🅠运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu didn't complete a lap in FP1 as a result of a technical problem with his BMW.

But Iannone's was perhaps the most spe𝐆ctacular problem as his rear brake problem has resulted in a fire by the time he arrived back in pit lane.

The Go Eleven Ducati rider was fourth-fastest at the end of the opening day of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike's second round of 2025, despite his issue in the morning, whichꩲ perhaps aided his ability to brush off the FP1 problem that cost him several minutes at the beginning of the session.

“I think sometimes it’s possible that it happens,” Ianno൩ne said of his⭕ FP1 issue, speaking to WorldSBK.com.

“Today we had a technical problem on the rear brake and at the end we had a fire, so the rear brake complete🍒ly broke.

“So, I think the [only choice] I have ⭕is to come back to the garage – when I 🦄arrive we see the fire, but I think the team were really fast to recover everything and I came back on track really fast.

“So, yes, I think it’s better when everything is fine, b🦩ut in any case som♑etimes it happens.”

Iannone was nonetheless happy with his day as it marked an improvement over last year’s Portimao race when he feltꦫ he struggled෴.

“Not bad be🌟cause last year I struggled a little bit in this track – always, in general, I struggled a little bit in this track,” he said.

“Since𝐆rely, it’s a really good track, but not easy f♐or many things, because it’s important you have everything fitted well, especially on the electronics side it’s not easy.

“But step-by-step, day-by-day we improve with the team, also the relationship between me and the ꦚelectronics guys has improved.

“So, for this, at the end my expectation is good because I think we closed not in a bad way, I think we have a good💙 chance, but for sure we need to improve something, some tenths – it’s really important to fight for the first five positions.”

The Italian followed his compatriot, Nicolo Bulega, in FP2, and was able to spot some differences between the characteristics of his Ducati ꧟and that of the factory rider.

“For sure, we have many differences,꧃” Iannone said.

“He, in the last sector, is unbelievabl꧃e becauꦐse he has a lot of traction – more than me, and we need to understand why because in general I know the bike is the same, but we will see.

“We will stud🔴y which difference we have and we try to compar💝e, we try to recover this gap.

“I think at th꧃e end, in the other points of the track, it’s not bad, I’m quite good, but the thing is compared to last year I’m more confid▨ent, my feeling is better.

“This is th🐬e target: to improve on last year, ꦺbut in any case we are here and we try to fight.”