Andrea Iannone says the🌟 only limi🉐t he has on the Ducati GP23 “is me” following his first MotoGP race in five years and admits “I’m not ready for this bike”.

The one-time grand prix winner put in a solid performance on Saturday morning in Malaysian Grand🎶 Prix qualifying to put his VR46-run Ducati 17th on the grꦜid, just 0.548s off top spot in Q1.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:In his first MotoGP contest of any kind since serving his four-year doping ban, Iannone was second-to-last inꦿ the sprint and 13 seconds from the next-best Ducati, which was team-mate Marco Bezzecchi.

Asked by mahbx.com ho🌠w he found his first race since Valencia 2019, Iannone replied: “Difficult. But MotoGP is like this and you need to un꧟derstand this situation.

“So, it’s after a long, long time. Five years, it’s ꦬcompletely changed. It’s another story.”

Iannone added that he was able to understand better how to extraꩵct speed from a modern MotoGP bike, but says the bigges💝t limit remains his physical condition.

“Today I understood the limit,” he said.

“The more you push, the more the bike is better. It’s like this, impressive. The more charge you put on the bike, the mo🙈re speed 🧸you have and the more grip the bike has.

“Bu♛t the limit, for me, at the moment the package is really good, the garage work really well.

“The guys, the team is amazing. ꧃It’s like a factory team. The limit is me, my physical condition. I’m🍃 not ready for this bike.”

When comparing MotoGP and Wꦬorld Superbikes, Iannone likened the latter to “a bicycle” in terms of the phꩲysical requirements.

Looking ahead to the 20-lap grand prix on Sunday, I🍬annone says managing his strength will be more critical than tyre conservation.

“I needℱ to manage my drop - not the tyres,” he jo🍸ked.

“The drop of the tyres, the garage manages. But I need to manage Andrea. I need to decide: to make five laps like a k𒉰ing, or to do 20 laps like a nobody.

“This is the question. I possibly start like qualifying, I make five laps unbelievable. In the end, I go in the gar🍰age, [say] ‘guys, the best five laps of my life’. But the race finish. Sprint of sprint.”

Bezzecchi offers helping hand in qualifying

Iannone followed his VR46 team-mate Marco Bezzecchi in the Q1 session and believes without a mistake on his best lap that he could hav♊e gone “two tenths, two tenths and a half” 𒅌quicker.

Asked if he learned anything following Bezzecchi, Iannone said: “Yes, I think I also have 💦the speed. After a long time, my speed is intact, more or less. It’s quite good.”

Bezze❀cchi revealed Iannone asked him ahead of qualifying if he could use the three-time grand prix winner as a reference, which the former 🤪obliged.

“He yesterday he asked me if he could start behind me, and I said ‘yes, for sure’,” Bezzecchi, who was 10th in the sprint, said. 
“I knew he could go very fast in one lap. He mad✅e an amazing lap time considering he wasn’t riding MotoGP for almost five years.

“So, I was quite surprised by the lap time. Fo🦂rtunately he didn’t beat me. We spoke a bit and he’s a fucking g💧ood guy, so I like.”