First success in Sbk for Iannone, who hasn’t won since MotoGp

Eight years after the last time (it happened at the Red Bull Ring, in the 2016 MotoGp Grand Prix d’Austria), Andrea Iannone è returned to relish the joy of success, imposing himself in Race-1 at Motorland Aragon and thus conquering his first career success in World Superbike.

The Abruzzese rider of the GoEleven team placed his Ducati Panigale V4R ahead of the BMWs of Toprak Razgatlioglu, returning from injury, and Garrett Gerloff. It had been exactly 2,967 days since Iannone felt the joy of victory, an emotion that he was unable to hide after the race.

“It’s beautiful,‖ he commented.

I came back to have this feeling and it è always special. Today è a little bit’ different since it è came after a long, long time. It’s really special. I went through really difficult times but in the end the dream always lived inside me. I finally decided to come back. This year I had to recover a lot since after a long time è everything was difficult. Today we are here and we are really happy”.

” Today I didn’t just win the race, I won the race of my life,” he added, “I showed that I am a strong man. I won the race, I am happy, è it was a good race but è different than MotoGp. It’s all different. Today I won a really important race” reiterated Iannone.

It remains at 1-1 between Luna Rossa and Ineos Britannia

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It still remains at 1-1 in the final series, best of thirteen races, between Luna Rossa and Ineos Britannia, which will crown the winner of the Luois Vuitton Cup and thus designer the challenger to Emirates New Zealand in the 37th edition of the America’s Cup. The weather in Barcelona has a hand in it, making it useless for the two boats to take to the water.

The wind è too weak to start at the scheduled time on the schedule, it is necessary to wait two hours for the conditions to allow the start of matchrace number 3: Ineos Britannia gains a good lead over the Italian boat, but is betrayed by the wind that drops to almost zero, preventing the completion of the race within the 45 minutes stipulated by the rules and allowing Luna Rossa’s crew to breathe a sigh of relief.

All postponed until Sunday then, in a challenge that Luna Rossa had started Thursday with a 46″ win, except losing the next race by 16″. The road for both teams è still very long, since only whoever reaches seven successes will be able to win the trophy reserved for challengers.

Luna Rossa’s crew today included Jimmy Spithill and Francesco Bruni at the helm, with Umberto Molineris and Andrea Tesei as trimmers. The cyclors, on the other hand, were Enrico Voltolini, Bruno Rosetti, Cesare Gabbia and Emanuele Liuzzi.

No Supercup for Paola Egonu

The Italian women’s volleyball Super Cup will be played without one of the announced protagonists, Paola Egonu. The Olympic champion, in fact, will not take part in the challenge between her Numia Vero Volley Milan and Imoco Conegliano, who face each other Sunday afternoon contending for the first seasonal trophy.

The reason è has been explained by the Lombardy club itself, through an official note: “The Consorzio Vero Volley announces that the athlete Paola Egonu will not take part in the Fineco Supercoppa match, due to the persistence of a flu syndrome that prevented her from training with the rest of the team in the last weekly sessions”.

The 2024 Italian Super Cup pits this year’s Imoco Conegliano, last year’s winner of both the championship and the Italian Cup, against Numia Vero Volley Milan, which lost the final of the last national cup to the Venetian club. Venue for the match is the Palaeur in Rome.

Forfeit in the Supercup aside, Paola Egonu looks forward to the 2024/2025 season after a summer to remember: the 1998-born athlete è in fact, she was a great protagonist with the national team this summer, winning the Olympic gold medal as a protagonist and earning in Paris the title of best player of the tournament.