Ducati’s Andrea Iannone clinched his maiden win in MotoGP, and not only that held off the challenges of his team-mate and the Movistar Yamaha’s machines to place the Ducati on the top step of the podium, for the first time since Casey Stoner did it six years ago. But the Italian had a different strategy from that of his works Desmosedici team-mate, Andrea Dovizioso, as the race winner opted for the soft front and medium rear tyres, whereas most of the title challengers, including Dovizioso decided to race with the medium front and harder rear, and Iannone’s ‘strategy’ paid off. He did not tell many of his decision to try out the soft tyre and after a successful test in Austria at...
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