Back to the home heroes, Andrea Iannone was another in attendance getting ready for the second round on Italian soil. Sitting out the race last season due to injury, the ‘Maniac’ is back this year and wants to get a solid result in a difficult season: “It’s a very difficult season for us. I hope in these last six races we improve the performance a bit. It’s very difficult for me to talk about the situation, we always try our best, in the garage and on track – and me at home, in the gym I try every day to improve. But it’s difficult at the moment, the feeling with the bike for me, and I struggle a lot. But I think the priority is to never give up and improve race by race and day by day. And continue to believe. Misano for me is a special weekend. A home weekend, we have two races in Italy and I hope this race this weekend for me is one of the best come the end of Sunday. But we’ll see. We start tomorrow and it’s important to start well, then we’ll see the potential during the weekend.”