MotoGP: Andrea Iannone explains his anger at Valencia to better put it into perspective

It's the kind of scene that we now know can blow up a contract... A driver who enters the box furiously with harsh words, explicit gestures, all giving the impression of general incompetence. We will not return to what happened in Jerez in the KTM field, and we will focus here on what we experienced in Valencia, during the first of the two days of testing, at Aprilia. After an engine failure, Andrea Iannone rejoined his team in a very bad mood. He would almost have accused those around him of having sent him to his death... To avoid this bad impression, Iannone says...

The teams must be convinced of this: the box is no longer a sanctuary. Cameras are everywhere. At the house of Aprilia, during the second of two days of the Valencia pre-season test, Andrea Iannone exploded in his as hard as his engine had just done on the track. “ I risk killing myself » we heard from the driver who clearly blamed his team for sending him out to do laps with an RS-GP that he hadn't felt for a while.

The pressure subsided, Joe the Maniac then explained: “ It was a dangerous situation and at that moment it's normal to be afraid » begins the teammateAleix Espargaro who, a few hours before, had shown himself disillusioned by the lack of new features on his bike. “ Especially because it happened on the straight. The bike caught fire, I felt a lot of heat on my feet and the oil went up to the brake lever. It's understandable to get angry in some cases »Assures Iannone.

The Italian also goes into detail: “ We understand that our competitors use a shorter gear ratio than us and therefore the engine stays at high revs longer. We tried to do it, aware that it was a risk. Our engine is not used to being at high revs for so long, but we wanted to try an extreme situation ". So what happened had to happen...

« It is important to try different situations he says. " We know we need more horses and we need to improve. We identified a lot of interesting things and Romano Albesiano is very courageous in this regard. Maybe we shouldn't have risked that, but if you want to improve, you have to do it sometimes. We finally found something good. »

« The positive aspect is that we continued to work to improve, we didn't give up and we used all our energy. In Jerez we will have new parts and some parts that we will try again during the season. We are waiting for the new bike to arrive for testing at Sepang » ends a Iannone who obviously wants to bring calm to the cottages…