Former MotoGP and WorldSBK star Andrea Iannone will return to full-time competitors within the new FIM Harley-Davidson Baggers World Cup, a assist sequence that options races throughout six MotoGP weekends.
The FIM Harley-Davidson Baggers World Cup debuted this season as its personal championship throughout the programme at MotoGP grands prix. The primary occasion occurred at america GP and noticed 9 bikes compete.
The championship has now introduced the arrival of Iannone, who will race with the Niti Racing staff on the sequence’ second spherical in Mugello.
The Indonesian Harley-Davidson Baggers outfit debuted with wonderful leads to the primary spherical of the season, taking a good victory within the second race by the hands of Oscar Gutierrez. The Spanish rider will now be joined by the Italian making one of many strongest line-ups within the sequence.
The debut of the rider from Vasto would be the Mugello spherical scheduled between Could 29 and 31. With this announcement, the Niti Racing staff’s line-up is accomplished and the grid of the sequence is expanded to 10 riders.
Iannone is among the most recognised names in motorcycling in recent times, a race winner each in MotoGP and within the Superbike World Championship. Nonetheless, he was pressured away from full-time competitors in 2019 after failing a medication check. He later returned to MotoGP for a race with VR46 in 2024, and has accomplished two seasons in WSBK.
Andrea Iannone has been competing in Superbikes
Photograph by: Gold and Goose
The Italian will carry his expertise, aggressive driving fashion and robust racing intuition to the MotoGP assist sequence, so is predicted to be one of many favourites to take the primary World Cup title.
“I’m not coming simply to participate”
“I like challenges, particularly once they take you out of your consolation zone,” Iannone defined. “That is one thing utterly completely different, and that’s exactly why I mentioned sure. I’m very excited to begin this new chapter, since I’ve at all times admired Harley-Davidson and its iconic neighborhood of riders.
“These bikes have a powerful character, they should be revered, however on the identical time they are often pushed to the utmost. In that sense, we’re fairly comparable, and I feel that’s the reason this undertaking fits me like a glove.”
The Italian admitted that, for the second, he has not been capable of get on the motorbike with which he’s going to compete.
“I method this primary race with out having examined the motorbike and with one race weekend lower than the others,” he mentioned. “However that solely displays my mentality much more: I settle for challenges and actively search them. Mugello is the proper place to begin, in entrance of the Italian followers, on a circuit that I do know very nicely.”
The rider reveals himself formidable within the face of this new problem in his profession, and assures that he’s not coming to parade his fame.
“I’m not coming simply to participate. I wish to perceive the motorbike rapidly and be aggressive from the start. Let’s see what we are able to do,” he added. “On a extra private degree, I really feel a powerful reference to Indonesia. I tremendously recognize its individuals and I’m excited to start this path along with Niti Racing and this neighborhood.”
The FIM Harley-Davidson Baggers World Cup consists of six rounds and two races per spherical.
After the primary spherical in Austin in March, the sequence will proceed with occasions at Mugello (Could 29–31), Assen (June 26–29), Silverstone (August 7–9), MotorLand Aragon (August 28–29) and Crimson Bull Ring (September 18–20).
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