{"id":170473,"date":"2025-09-26T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/170473\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:46:06","slug":"weird-plans-for-andrea-iannone-in-2026-worldsbk-still-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/170473\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWeird\u201d plans for Andrea Iannone in 2026, WorldSBK still an option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Andrea Iannone wants to keep racing in 2026, but his plans are not yet solidified, the Italian describing them as \u201csomething weird\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Italian currently sits 11th in the world standings, having scored only one podium this year (in Race 1 at Phillip Island), and with only one top-six finish in the past 17 races.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But Iannone, who last year won at Aragon where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> is racing again this weekend, says he expects to still be racing in 2026.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSomething weird,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1060\/andrea-iannone\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Iannone<\/a> said when asked by WorldSBK.com if he has any plans at the moment for 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut it\u2019s I think not the best moment to talk for next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019re waiting a little bit more, but in any case I think we arrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He added that he still has enthusiasm to race in World Superbike next season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI never give up in my racing career, in my life, and, for sure, I think that I have a chance to achieve a good result in this championship,\u201d Iannone said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI love the championship, the people, everything, and for sure we try to continue with a really good situation in this paddock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Asked if his current Go Eleven team is an option for the 2026 season, Iannone said: \u201cI don\u2019t know. We will see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Denis Sacchetti, Go Eleven team boss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/news\/1078457\/1\/andrea-iannone-go-eleven-ducati-worldsbk-stint-come-end-end-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed earlier in the year<\/a> that he felt that Go Eleven and Iannone would separate at the end of the 2025 season. Alessandro Delbianco, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995400\/xavi-vierge\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavi Vierge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1018294\/dominique-aegerter\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominique Aegerter<\/a>, and Lorenzo Baldassarri \u2013 according to a recent report by Italian publication GPOne \u2013 have all been linked with the seat currently occupied by Iannone.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrea Iannone wants to keep racing in 2026, but his plans are not yet solidified, the Italian describing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[111332,64,63,806,805,803,804,85,28725],"class_list":{"0":"post-170473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-andrea-iannone","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-team-pata-go-eleven"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}