Paddock princess Andrea Iannone will return to MotoGP and the proverbial scene of the crime this weekend 5 full years after unintentionally consuming some medicine. The attractive Italian shall be changing Fabio ‘quick at contract time’ di Giannantonio who will bear surgical procedure on a shoulder harm he sustained flipping the hen too vigorously behind Uccio’s again.
It was again in Malaysia in 2018 that Iannone, who has had extra work accomplished than anybody at Gresini, failed a drug take a look at by testing optimistic for Drostanolone. The Italian claimed it was a combination up and that she’d eaten some cow that had eaten some grass that had efficiency enhancing medicine in it.
Nonetheless Andrea’s completely plausible excuse fell on deaf ears and she or he was banned for 18 months. Infuriated by the choice Iannone took the matter to the Court docket of Arbitration the place, comically, her ban was prolonged to 4 years because the decide was a Dovizioso fan.
Regardless of the elevated ban the paddock hottie refused to shed a tear – not as a result of she didn’t need to however as a result of the plastic surgeon had blocked up her tear ducts.
This yr, nevertheless, noticed the ban (and the face) lifted and Iannone burst again onto the world bike stage like a humid firework with a full time Ducati trip in World Superbikes. The glamorous Italian strutted her stuff all through the season with randomly mediocre outcomes that ranged from a victory to ‘misplaced someplace unnoticed midfield’.
Her outcomes have been ok although for the getting old ex-Champion Valentino Rossi to momentarily cease obsessing over Marc Marquez and name Andrea providing her Giannantonio’s trip in Malaysia.
However the huge query is – does the paddock princess Iannone deserve the trip?
Sure she does
Iannone has accomplished her time. A four-year ban was far, far too harsh given the circumstances. Worse nonetheless she’s needed to do a yr within the WSBK retirement house which has meant having to continuously interact with the epic dullard James Toseland.
Andrea is among the only a few Ducati contracted riders obtainable so why not give her an opportunity to finish her MotoGP profession in a extra optimistic method?
No she doesn’t
Iannone’s has had her time. In her years in MotoGP she was hardly common with anybody. When there are certainly many youthful riders obtainable to present this superb alternative – why select Iannone?
