Andrea Iannone will not be on the 2026 World Superbike starting grid \u2013 at least for the upcoming Phillip Island event.<\/p>\n
After splitting from GoEleven, the former Ducati MotoGP<\/a> and WorldSBK<\/a> race winner raised eyebrows by appeared on the provisional 2026 season entry list competing for the Cainam Racing team.<\/p>\n Cainam is Iannone\u2019s \u2018Maniac\u2019 nickname spelt backwards.<\/p>\n The new project was rumoured to be running Ducati machinery under the guidance of Gelete Nieto, son of Angel Neito and brother of VR46 MotoGP team manager Pablo.<\/p>\n However, Cainam has missed pre-season testing and is now also confirmed as absent for the Phillip Island season opener from February 20-22, WorldSBK\u2019s only event outside Europe.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n The next chance for Iannone and Cainam to join the series would then be at Portimao on March 27-29.<\/p>\n Lorenzo Baldassarri will race for GoEleven this season.<\/p>\n The full team-by-team Phillip Island entry list can be seen below:<\/p>\n 7 Iker Lecuona ESP (Panigale V4R) Aruba.It Racing – Ducati 9 Danilo Petrucci ITA (M 1000 RR) ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n 55 Andrea Locatelli ITA (YZF R1) Pata Maxus Yamaha 5 Yari Montella ITA (Panigale V4R) Barni Spark Racing Team 22 Alex Lowes GBR (KB998) Rimini bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team 45 Tetsuta Nagashima* JPN (CBR1000RR-R SP) Honda HRC 62 Stefano Manzi ITA (YZF R1) GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n 14 Sam Lowes GBR (Panigale V4R) ELF Marc VDS Racing Team<\/p>\n 34 Lorenzo Baldassarri ITA (Panigale V4R) Team Goeleven<\/p>\n 95 Tarran Mackenzie GBR (Panigale V4R) MGM Optical Express Racing<\/p>\n 31 Garrett Gerloff USA (ZX-10RR) Kawasaki WorldSBK Team<\/p>\n 67 Alberto Surra ITA (Panigale V4R) Motocorsa Racing<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n 13 Mattia Rato ITA (YZF R1) Motoxracing WorldSBK Team 17 Ryan Vickers GBR (CBR1000RR-R SP) Honda HRC<\/p>\n *Replacing the injured Somkiat Chantra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrea Iannone will not be on the 2026 World Superbike starting grid \u2013 at least for the upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[111332,64,63,17197,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-470251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-andrea-iannone","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470251","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=470251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
11 Nicolo Bulega ITA (Panigale V4R) Aruba.It Racing – Ducati<\/p>\n
88 Miguel Oliveira POR (M 1000 RR) ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK<\/p>\n
97 Xavi Vierge ESP (YZF R1) Pata Maxus Yamaha<\/p>\n
19 Alvaro Bautista ESP (Panigale V4R) Barni Spark Racing Team<\/p>\n
47 Axel Bassani ITA (KB998) Rimini bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team<\/p>\n
96 Jake Dixon GBR (CBR1000RR-R SP) Honda HRC<\/p>\n
87 Remy Gardner AUS (YZF R1) GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team<\/p>\n
54 Bahattin Sofuoglu TUR (YZF R1) Motoxracing WorldSBK Team<\/p>\n