Andrea Iannone is still confused over his removal from the Suzuki MotoGP programme after being given only one year in real terms to prove himself.

The Italian had a tough 2017 as a poor decision was made on engine specification and he was given the Spanish archer before the combination of himself and the GSX-RR came good in 2018.

"I don't know and I'll never understand it, is difficult to say. 2017 has been a complicated year for both of us and they made that decision," said Iannone, speaking at Phillip Island.

"2018 went differently, I think I showed a lot, especially when the material related to my requests arrived, the results started to come with both me and Rins.

"I'm sorry because I think that after a difficult year like 2017 I gave some important indications and I made the bike grow.

"There are still a lot of things to improve, but it's no longer up to me to say in which direction we should go. I just work for my weekend. But I think if we had continued together, we could have done more."