Iannone and Rins: look back at a difficult MotoGP season with Suzuki

The two official Suzuki MotoGP riders, the Italian Andrea Iannone and the Spanish Alex Rins, take stock of the past year before entering the 2018 season..

Andrea Iannone and Alex Rins, both renewed as official Suzuki riders for the MotoGP 2018 season, give their impressions of the past season.

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Iannone: "patience and concentration are the keys to success"

"This year was not easy for us, it was even really harder than we thought", admits "Joe the Maniac" who remembers that "during the first test of the GSX-RR in Valence the year last, I had an excellent feeling and with the whole team we thought we could achieve good results "…

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“Unfortunately, that did not happen”, regrets Iannone who finishes with 228 points … behind the world champion! “Despite a good first race in Qatar, we started to struggle a little and he got me took a long time to get used to the Suzuki. My chief mechanic Marco Rigamonti and I were newcomers to the Suzuki team, which means that we were completely discovering the motorcycle and the working methods of the Japanese company ", adds the Italian who had just passed four years "at home" at Ducati, before being ejected by .

“Every MotoGP team is different, but when you’ve spent several years in a specific environment it’s really hard to change the way you approach work and deal with difficulties. Then over time we learn to trust our colleagues in the box, and to take advantage of the multitude of things they can explain to us about motorcycles ".

“I have always believed that patience and concentration are the keys to success, and it has been proven again this year. We continued to work, little by little, step by step. We had to deal with a lot of frustration, but even in the darkest moments we never lost our confidence in the job ".

“And finally, in Brno () then in Aragon (), new technical solutions on the bike came to confirm our beliefs: we had identified the errors, we had found solutions and 2018 appeared brighter. It came from teamwork, that’s the key ".

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Rins: "despite everything, I learned a lot"

“It has not been an easy year for me,” also acknowledges Alex Rins, who for his part finished at the, 239 points behind Marc Marquez. “I had some delicate, painful and difficult to digest moments, especially when we don’t quite understand what is going on and that each time a new obstacle comes up in front of us, but despite everything in a year I have learned a lot of things ".

"The season started badly, with one riding the GSX-RR in Valencia," recalls the young Spaniard. "It hurts a lot, but maybe it’s mostly knowing that the offseason won’t be ideal. I spent several painful months after multiple fractures to the vertebrae, and it kept me from getting there. at the start of the season in the best conditions ".

"Before, I was injured again by breaking my astragalus (during one, Editor’s note), then I started my discovery of motorcycles and MotoGP again. And finally, to complicate things even more. , ma finished destroying a season that I had imagined as the ultimate dream "…

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