Iannone spent four years with Ducati in the premier class - first with Pramac then as a factory rider - between 2013-2016 but these were the🦄 dark days for the famous Italian manufac🌳turer.

A switch to Suzuki was a disaster and Iannone is now remembered for failing a doping test, resulting in a four-year ban, and his life as a celebrity in Iౠtaly.

"Andrea had the misfortune to arrive in MotoGP in 2013, the worst year for Ducati and, instead, a glorious year for MarcMarquez – with whom he had fought the Moto2 title the previous y🌞ear – who won his first world title in the premier class,” Marco Rigamonti told . 

“For someone like🌠 Andrea, very sure of him🔜self, of his abilities and proud, it was difficult to accept. 

“Basically he is a good guy, but this character 🍨sometimesꦜ has pushed him to give more than 100% to win; In other cases, it did not allow him to make self-criticism, therefore to improve himself. 

“His romantic relationships, then, have perhaps worsened the situation even more: find🎶ing himself on the covers of magaz🦋ines and being recognised has done nothing but feed these characteristics. 

“The move to Suzuki, then, was a mistake, by his own admission: he left in ওthe year in which Ducati was able to take a further step forward, refusing a bike for which he would have been the first rider, the reference point for development. 

“In addition, he moved to a team where he found a way of♋ working that, immediately, he did not like.”

Iannone had a difficult relationship with fellow factory rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Dovizioso. But, when Iannone left, Dovizioso secured three consecutive seco🍨nd-place finishes.

Mi🧸ght Iannone’s fortune have been different if he didn’t depart D🥃ucati?

“It is [hard to say],” Rigamonti believes. “Suzuki for him was, certainly, a [problem], but history is not𝔍 made with ꦡ‘ifs’. 

“Th📖ere was no certainty that with Ducati he would win. There are endless variables. 

“Just think of how Dovizioso's career has changed with Iannone's exit from the garage: with the arrival of Jorge Lorenzo, Dovi, seeing all the problems of his new teammate, had a🧜 great injection of self-esteem that allowed him to ෴then reach all the victories and podiums he obtained. 

🔯“Going from chasing your teammate to beating him every Sunday, if you add that he's a five-time world champion, gives 🏅you a lot of confidence. But, even in this case, if Iannone had stayed, we cannot know how it would have gone."

Iannone’s ban expires in December, making him eligible for a comeback in 2024. Although returning to MotoGP is surely a step too far, he could s꧙eek offers from World Superbikes.