Alvaro Bautista has again add🧸ressed Andrea Iannone’s claim to be “faster” in his MotoGP wildcard.

Iannone followed in Bautista’s footsteps by featuring🏅 in the Malaysian MotoGP as a one-off, a year after his rival.

Iannone, who rode a GP23 for the VR46 Ducati team, claimed afterwards that he had🥀 gone 🍒faster than Bautista managed a year earlier.

“Comparisons are ne🐻ver nice, and I'm sorry that Andrea wanted to compare himself to me👍 since they were two very different situations,” Bautista told .

“I do🍬n't know where he saw that he was faster than me, since he did one lap less in the race.

“I just want to defend myself because it's not a g▨ood situation, and as I said we're talking about two different situations, also because I arrived in Se🍰pang with a major shoulder injury.

"If he had done the tests he would have been faster, like me 🅰without injury, 📖but with ifs and buts you don't do much.

“If I had been born in Hollywood maybe now I am a famous actor, but I was born in Talavera and I am🌜 a rider!

𒈔“The numbers tell the truth, and I'm sorry for this comparison.

“I don't want controversy but only to defend myself:𝐆 it's bullshit, but I didn't want it to end in a certain way.”

Bautista, in 2023, was still feeling the effects of a shoulder injury when he rode forꦚ Ducati in Sepang.

Both Ba▨utista in 2023 and Iannone this year finished the grand prix in 17th.

They locked horns in the World Superbike Championship this year, where Iannone returned to a▨fter a 🍒four-year ban elapsed.

Bautista finished thir🅘d in his title defence, Iannone was seventh.

They will both return in 2025 riding Ducatis.