Andrea Iannone’s practice at this weekend’s WorldSBK Portuguese Round was compromised at the beginning by a rear brake issue, but the Italian was a🦩ccepting of the problem afterwards.

The Italian was not the only rider to suffer technical issues in the morning. Garret Gerloff's Kawasaki suffered an issue around mid-way through the session, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Toprak Razgatlioglu didn't complete a lap in ꧂FP1 as a result of a technical problem with his BMW.

But Iannone's was 🃏perhaps the most spectacula🙈r problem as his rear brake problem has resulted in a fire by the time he arrived back in pit lane.

The Go Eleven Ducati rider was fourth-fastest at the end of the opening day of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike's second round of 2025, despite his issue in the morning, which perhaps aided his ability to brush off the FP1 problem that cost him several minutes at the beginning of th🐻e session.

“I think sometimes it’s possible t💯hat it happens,” Iannone said of his FP1 issue, speaking to WorldSBK.com.

“Today we had a technical problem on 🍰thꦡe rear brake and at the end we had a fire, so the rear brake completely broke.

“So, I think the [only choice] I have is to come back to the garage – wh𒅌en I arrive🌼 we see the fire, but I think the team were really fast to recover everything and I came back on track really fast.

“So, yes, I think it’s better when everything is fine, but in an✱y case sometimes itᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ happens.”

Iannone was no🌟netheless happy with his day as it marked an improvement over last year’s Portimao race when he felt he struggled.

“Not bad because last yℱear I struggled a little bit in this track – always, in general, I struggled a little bit in this track,” he said.

“Sincereꦓly, it’s a really good track, but not easy for many things, because it’s important you have everything fitted well, especially on the electronics side it’s not easy.

“But step-by-step, day-by-day we improve with the team, also the relationship between ꩲme and the electronics guys has improved.

“So, for this, at the end my expectation is good because I think we clo♛sed not in a bad way, I think we have a good c♏hance, but for sure we need to improve something, some tenths – it’s really important to fight for the first five positions.”

The Italian follo♍wed his compatriot, Nicolo Bulega, in FP2, and was able to spot some differences between the characteristics of his Ducati and that of the factory rider.

“For sur🀅e, we have many differences,” Iannone s𒀰aid.

“He, in the last sector, is unbelievable because he has a lot of traction – more than me, a🐎nd we need to understand why because in general I know the bike is the same, but we will see.

“We will study wh🌺ich difference we have and we try to comp🤪are, we try to recover this gap.

“I think at the en𝔉d, in the other poin🐻ts of the track, it’s not bad, I’m quite good, but the thing is compared to last year I’m more confident, my feeling is better.

“This is the target: to improve on last year, but in any case we are here and we try to𝕴 fight.”