Andrea Iannone will be offered a return, says Carlo Pernat, and can “be fast” aged 35 just like Valentino Rossi
Former Ducati, Suzuki and Aprilia rider Iannone’s MotoGP ▨career was left in ruin when he received a four-year ban due to doping but that is set to expire at the concl🀅usion of this year.
He will be eligible for the 2024 season and would retain two crucial attributes, according to Carlo Pernat - the required speed and th🦩e promotional ability.
“Iannone is❀ a c🍨razy talent, four years are not enough to bury the talent,” Pernat told .
“That always remai꧋ns and in my opinion he, even if he doesn't say it, has in mind t🔯o come back.
"In this MotoGP in which marketing has become predomi♎nant, I, as a marketing man, I would take a risk on Iannone.
“Maybe some t𒈔eam will try. Will he win? Will he be fast? I don't know, but it wo💜uld still be a coup from a media point of view.
"It makes me want to say that we'll see him again 𓆏in a world championship.
“Maybe it won't be in MotoGP, maybe it will be in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbikes, but someone, next year when he's finished serving h🌜is years of disqualification, will offer him a seat . I am convinced of it.
“Also because Andrea has always trained badly, he has never really dise🐎ngaged from motorsport and, if we look, he was 🧸born in 1989. In 2024, therefore, he will be 35 years old.
“Ask Valentino Rossi if you can still be fast at 35. The Doctorꦜ, perh🌊aps we have forgotten, was about to win a world championship at the age of 36.”
Iannone said last year to : “I'll be back. I don't know where, how and when, if in 𒅌MotoGP or Superbike, but I guarantee it: I still can't fill my life with other things [other] than the bike or the speed.
"Dancing with the Stars was like a diversion and I'm spoiled for choice for everything that’s ꧟offered to me. If I get offers from TV it means that people are interested in me, but I guarantee you that I am focused on one thing: to get back to [riding]. And I will do it.
"I kept relaꦗtionships with Aprilia, my former [personal] manager Carlo Pernat and [Pramac boss] Paolo Campinoti, who are like members of the 🌄family, but races are made to win, not for true friendships.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sport𒈔s for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
