The Maniac came within 8 hundredths of happiness, finishing these three days of Malaysian testing in second position, a breath behind the first Maverick Vinales. Perhaps he could have done better on Wednesday, but we will never know because a fall ruined his chances of ahead of the man on the Yamaha.
Iannone, however, has not the slightest reason to be disappointed. Already because he was not injured when he fell in turn 1, and also because he is starting on the Suzuki while neither he nor she are considered the best in the field. But it is obvious that the Italian and the GSX-RR are very complementary, within a team of formidable efficiency. Two teams in fact, because the one which designed and built the new engine and the new chassis is as much to be congratulated as the operating team which managed to make them work so well on this very particular circuit, despite the pitfalls of weather.
First on the evening of the second day in 1'59.452, Andrea then had a comfortable lead of 0.4 over Vinales and 0.8 on Red. Finally, only Maverick will manage to precede him this Wednesday in 1'59.368 with a lead of 0.084, which can hardly be considered a boulevard. We will therefore await with optimism a confirmation during the next tests which will take place at Phillip Island, where during the last Australian Grand Prix Alex Espargaro had achieved the fourth fastest time in qualifying on his Suzuki, while Vinales and his took the third step of the podium the next day
According to Andrea Iannone, who are " The day was positive and my feelings were good. Today we tried to focus on race pace, find a good balance between the bike and consistency in performance, and we improved session after session, which is positive.
“The settings have been improved, especially at the front. Yesterday we had vibrations when braking and in slow corners, and today we managed to find a good solution.
“Overall I am very satisfied with these three days, we worked very well with my team and the feeling with the GSX-RR is very positive. Of course, we have a lot of areas where we can improve, but now our engineers have a lot of data to work with and we will definitely be able to make further progress. »
