Andrea Iannone’s second World Superbike season began with two podiums, however his tally nearly by no means acquired off the mark.
The Italian regarded set to problem for the rostrum positions in Saturday’s Race 1 when he encountered a technical downside and slipped from second to ninth, earlier than recovering to sixth.
On Sunday, issues nearly acquired worse for Iannone when Toprak Razgatlioglu entered flip 4 with an excessive amount of velocity and needed to head for the run-off. The Turkish rider managed to squeeze his approach between Iannone and Nicolo Bulega with out making contact as he headed to the run-off, and Iannone was capable of finally end the race in second behind Bulega.
“Within the Superpole Race, I feel at first it was a little bit bit scary, however fortuitously nothing occurred and I loved using,” Iannone mentioned.
“However I felt I missed one thing on the grip, and for the second race we needed to make [the bike] a little bit bit stronger on this level, so I feel we took what we would have liked.”
Iannone backed up his second place within the Superpole Race with a 3rd in Race 2, behind Bulega and the second manufacturing unit Ducati of Alvaro Bautista. Though it wasn’t victory, Iannone was happy together with his outcomes on Sunday.
“Sincerely, I’m actually comfortable about as we speak,” Iannone advised WorldSBK.com.
“I feel we took the utmost now we have and we arrive actually near the manufacturing unit [Ducati] group – that is the goal.
“For positive, each rider needs to win, however in any case we’re small and powerful.
“We modified a little bit bit the setup for the second race and we improved a little bit bit.
“I need to say because of Ducati as a result of now we have assist from Ducati and this can be a good factor for us.”
