{"id":220526,"date":"2025-10-17T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220526\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:32:06","slug":"andrea-iannone-not-compromising-on-2026-worldsbk-deal-i-dont-have-time-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220526\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Iannone not compromising on 2026 WorldSBK deal: \u201cI don\u2019t have time to lose\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A WorldSBK future is still a possibility for Andrea Iannone in 2026, although the Italian is yet to sign anything for next year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iannone\u2019s 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> season will be his last at the Go Eleven team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/news\/1084005\/1\/andrea-iannones-replacement-ducati-world-superbike-team-found\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which announced Lorenzo Baldassarri<\/a> \u2013 who last raced in WorldSBK in 2023 with the GMT94 Yamaha team \u2013 for 2026 after the Estoril Round.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iannone maintains hopes of finding a spot on next year\u2019s WorldSBK grid, but after a season of underperformance, which has followed an impressive rookie campaign that included a win at Aragon, the Italian is after something that will allow him to fight for important positions, to &#8220;write history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI have an ambition for something I want and something that\u2019s good for me because I don\u2019t have time to lose,\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 ahead of the final round of 2025 in Jerez.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m not young, I\u2019m not starting now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFor sure, I need to concrete my experience, my talent, my everything, and in case I don\u2019t have the situation like this there\u2019s no sense to continue because I [don\u2019t want to make up the numbers] for World Superbike but I want to write history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe focus on this and we try to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iannone added: \u201cI don\u2019t have sincerely at the moment anything sure for next year, but in any case I think we have some chance and we [evaluate] which is the best for us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m focused to ride really well in this race [Spanish Round] and I want to think only in this race, the last race, and stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WorldSBK future is still a possibility for Andrea Iannone in 2026, although the Italian is yet to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220527,"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-220526","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\/220526","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=220526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}