Andrea Iannone backed to make astonishing MotoGP comeback
𒆙"First of all, it’s important to decide w🥂hether I remain in WorldSBK or not.”

Andrea Iannone “deserves” a return to MotoGP, i🥃nsists his WorldSBK boss.
The Italian🌠 rider came back from a four-year doping ban this season to join Go Eleven Ducati in WSBK.
His impressive early performances ha⛄ve already created a furore over his next step - 💜which might be back into MotoGP.
“I think he’s a top rider,”𝄹 said Denis Sacchetti, the Go Eleven team man💦ager.
“Andrea is a really talented rider a🔥nd I think he 🧜deserves to stay in WorldSBK with an official package and deserves also to ride in MotoGP.
“I think he can also have options in MotoGP.
“I think, at the moment𓄧, he has to decide what he wants for his career.
“Thꦜere’s an option to stay in the team. It’s a one-year contract with an option for a second year.
“He has to decide whether 🏅to accept the opꦗtion or not. It depends on what he wants to do.
“If he wants to stay with us, we’d be really happy, because I think we can fight for really 💛good results even if we’re a private team; we’re a private team with good support from Ducati.
“I think we are competitive enough to fight for the podium at every ra🍃ce. I don’t know.
“His future doesn’t d🦩epend on us but on him and Ducati and maybe other manufacturers that have much more power than us!”
Ian🐼none said about his own 2025 plans: “Every day, we have something new because every day something changes.
“It♈’s normal and not only for me. I want to focus on the C♉hampionship.
“After Misano, I’ll start to decide my futur🐠e. First of all, it’s important to decide whether I remain in WorldSBK or not.”
Iannone i🐈s r🥃iding an Independent Panigale V4 R this season.
Should Alvaro Bautista opt to retire, then space would open up in the Aruba.it Ducati 💖team alongside Nicolo Buleౠga.
Iannone, now aged 34,🙈 has cropped up in conversation for vacancies at MotoGP team🥂s next season.
In seven seasons in the premier class he most n♔otably rep🍬resented Ducati, before a stint at Suzuki, then Aprilia.
H🔜e is currently sixth in the WSBK standings after three rounds.
Iannone ⛄returns at Misano for the nextꦡ WSBK round on June 14, before he must decide what to do next season.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sp🔥orts, to football, to F1.