Andrea Iannone’s first Grand Prix since 2🌜019 ended in 17th place, 47 seconds behind the winner.

It was the Italian’s physical condition that suffered in Malaysia, as he came back to Grand Prix bikes that are more physicall💝y demanding than those he rode in 2019.

“I dropped more than the ty🀅res,” Iannone admitted after the race in Sepang.

“So, I’mꩵ fini𒁏shed. I’m finished, so it’s difficult — my arms, my shoulder, everything, upper body. Finished.”

The Italian rider, who won his first WorldSBK race earlier this year at Aragon, said that arm strength💛 in braking was his biggest limitation.

“My feeling is okay, I’m okay,” he said. “The problem is the arms in the braking point. I don’t have streng🦩th to remain [upright].

“It’s 🎐impossible to brake with a good intensౠity, with 100 per cent of my strength and I lose a lot — everything on the braking point.”

Iannone said🐼 that when his physical condition was good, he was able to feel the limit of the bike, but as he tired his body became a limiting fac🐼tor in his performance.

“The limit is Andrea, and not the bike,” he said.

“When I was fresh, I felt the lim⛄it, when I’m not fresh iꦦt’s difficult to arrive at the limit. Like, today, during the race, I don’t touch the limit.”

Iannone at least said that he learned sometಞhing🧸, even if it wasn’t his objective.

“I learned I’m faster than [Alv🍒aro] Bautista l♛ast year,” he said. “I learned this.”

The objective, though, of Iannone’s weekend 💯was “to not make a mistake and finish everything, and we I think complete at 100 per cent.”

After making his return to MꦜotoGP, and with one race remaining in 2024, the question to be answered is whether Iannone will again replace Di Giannantonio at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

“I also come 𓆏to Barcelona? I don’t know,” Iannone said.

“At this moment, nobody asked me, and I don’t know. Si⛎ncerely, I don’t have a lot of energy to think now and also to talk abou🐓t Barcelona.

“I’m waiting, in case somebody or Gigi [Dall’Igna, 🍌💛Ducati Corse General Manager], or whoever wants to ask me, and I try to decide.”