{"id":176583,"date":"2025-09-29T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176583\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:58:09","slug":"andrea-iannone-revels-in-jonathan-rea-aragon-worldsbk-battle-he-made-a-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176583\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Iannone revels in Jonathan Rea Aragon WorldSBK battle: \u201cHe made a step\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Aragon WorldSBK Race 2 saw the unfamiliar battle of Andrea Iannone and Jonathan Rea, one the Italian clearly enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iannone had been outside of battle for the top positions since he was on the podium at Phillip Island in February, but was back on better form at Aragon, the circuit he took his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> win at in 2024.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Go Eleven Ducati rider was able to take two fourth places on Sunday, his best results since he was fourth at Cremona in April.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The second of those Aragon fourths came after a battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1555\/jonathan-rea\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Rea<\/a> in the second half of the race, not a rider the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> race winner has had too much experience of riding with or battling against.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201c[The Superpole Race] was a really fun race, was unbelievable, we are everybody really close,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1060\/andrea-iannone\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Iannone<\/a> told WorldSBK.com after Race 2 in Aragon.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut this afternoon the situation changed a lot.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI fight a lot with Johnny [Jonathan Rea]. Johnny this afternoon rode really well, I think he made a really good step forward with the bike and also his riding style is really funny to see from behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIn any case, I think fourth place for us, after a really long time, is a good result. We hope to continue like this in the last two races of the championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot worried for the future\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iannone\u2019s future beyond 2025 remains uncertain for now but after a positive weekend in Aragon the Italian says he is \u201cnot worried for the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI have really clear what this year doesn\u2019t work like we want or in the correct way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m worried because we lose one year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut I\u2019m not worried for the future in case we continue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIn any case, we hope we are in World Superbike next year and we hope it\u2019s a better season than this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aragon WorldSBK Race 2 saw the unfamiliar battle of Andrea Iannone and Jonathan Rea, one the Italian clearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176584,"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-176583","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\/176583","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=176583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}