Andrea Iannone’s first Grand Prix since 2019 en𝔉ded in 17th place, 47 seconds behi൲nd the winner.

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

“I dr💎op♈ped more than the tyres,” Iannone admitted after the race in Sepang.

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

The Italian rider, who won his first WorldSBK race earli🐈er 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 brakin♏g point. I don’t have strength to remain [upriꩵght].

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

I🥂annone 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 factor in his performance.

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

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

Iannone a🍰t least said that he learned something, even if it wasn’t his objective.

“I learned I’m 𝓰faster than [Alvaro] Bautista last year,” he s🌃aid. “I learned this.”

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

After making his return to M🀅otoGP, 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 t🐼o Barcelona? 🎃I don’t know,” Iannone said.

“At this moment, nobody asked me, and I don’t know. Sincerely, I don’t have a lot of energy to th♛ink now and also to talk about 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.”