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DAY 2 – P 2 IN THE SLIPSTREAM OF BULEGA, GOOD FEELING IN RACE CONFIGURATION!

DAY 2 – P 2 IN THE SLIPSTREAM OF BULEGA, GOOD FEELING IN RACE CONFIGURATION!

With the checkered flag on Tuesday afternoon at Phillip Island, the WorldSBK pre-season officially ends. A quiet and very positive morning at Go Eleven gave Andrea the second place, close to Bulega. A quite unuseful afternoon due to rain, which changed the teams’ plans.

In FP 1, the number 29 made the most of the session, fixing various electronics areas and making comparisons between the two bikes in the garage, slightly different on the front. Positive feeling, clear improvement especially in the last and third sectors. The work was still focused on the race coumpound tyres, without using the SC0, the qualifying compound here at Phillip Island.

Free Practice 1:
P 1    N. Bulega   1.28.680
P 2    A. Iannone  + 0.482
P 3    D. Petrucci   + 0.499

In the afternoon the goal was to do some long runs with the two rear SC1 tyres and then move on to the time attack; the plan vanished due to the rain, which forced the riders to only work for a final half hour, but with many wet patches on the track. Unfortunately it was not possible to try out the ideas developed in the morning, so the work had to be moved to Friday. Three, four good laps in the last minutes, but without taking any particular risks.

Free Practice 2:
P 1   N. Bulega  1.29.133
P 2   T. Razgatlioglu    + 0.114
P 3   A. Locatelli  + 0.624
P 4   A. Iannone   + 0.664

Encouraging and positive pre-season tests for the whole Go Eleven team, Andrea ended all the sessions in dry asphalt conditions in second position, proving that he has a good feeling with the Ducati Panigale V4-R, helped by a year of experience behind him, too. Now we will need to put everything together and exploit every minute with the aim of coming ready for Saturday, when the sessions become hot!

Andrea Iannone (Rider): 

“This morning we worked very well, recovering some of the time lost yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, in the second session, the rain prevented us from completing the planned program. I finished in second place in all the sessions of this pre-season, which I consider in a positive way, compared to last year we are making progress. Now I know better what to expect on the track and I hope that, from Friday, we can start from here to continue improving. There are still many aspects to work on, so it will be essential to make the most of the time available.”

Denis Sacchetti (Team Manager): 
“Two days of testing at Phillip Island, we were always inside the top two/three places, it shows that Andrea is in good shape and is comfortable at the start of 2025. Yesterday we had a few problems in the afternoon, unfortunately we stayed in the pits a lot, but today everything worked well and in the morning we found some interesting solutions for the weekend. Unfortunately we couldn’t try the soft tyres due to the rain in the afternoon, but we are confident. Now we will analyse all the data carefully, if by Saturday we can find some small solutions in the central part of the track, we can fight at the front.”

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