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Video: Xavi Vierge would be Iker Lecuona's teammate on the Honda CBR1000RR-R in the Superbike World Championship
2024 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-10 16:34
Big surprise in the World Superbike Championship. According to the Motorsport medium, Xavi Vierge would have been chosen by Honda to be Iker Lecuona's teammate next season at the controls of the Honda CBR1000RR-R. The two Spaniards would form the young couple of HRC pilots.
Vierge's agreement with Honda would already be closed according to this publication, just waiting to be made official. At the age of 24, the Spanish rider would make the leap to the premier class of series-derived motorcycles just after having refused to make his debut, for just one race, with a Yamaha in MotoGP.
Vierge will be Bautista's substitute and Lecuona's teammate in HRC
Honda should confirm its commitment to a very young pair of drivers in the coming days. Lecuona will be 22 when next season begins, while Vierge will still be 24. A radical turn from Honda, betting on riders with experience in MotoGP, or in their environment, and hunger to develop that Honda CBR1000RR-R.
Vierge was left without a motorcycle in the world speed championship for next season after Petronas decided to leave and Sepang Racing Team will close its structures in Moto3 and Moto2. Although there is a free space in the MotoGP team, it is most likely that he will be sold to the highest bidder, his teammate Jake Dixon, whom he constantly crushes in Moto2.
So that, Lecuona and Vierge would be the substitutes for Álvaro Bautista and Leon Haslam in the official Honda team in Superbikes. HRC has decided to swerve and replace the ride of its star, Bautista, with the hiring of two hungry young men who can give another direction to the development of the bike.
Haslam is left without a team and so is Tom Sykes, the 2013 world champion who was sounding very loud to get on a Honda and will now have to look elsewhere. You probably have no choice but agree to continue with BMW in 2022 but with a satellite team.
If these two additions are confirmed, practically all the official Superbike motorcycles for 2022 will be closed, since Scott Redding and Michael van der Mark will be at BMW, Álvaro Bautista and Michael Ruben Rinaldi will pilot the Ducati, Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes will be the Kawasaki riders and Toprak Razgatlioglu will remain at Yamaha. It remains to confirm Andrea Locatelli as his partner.
Vierge has been in the world speed championship for seven seasons, all of them in Moto2. He has never won a race, but accumulates four podiums. This same year he got into the drawer in the home race, in Barcelona-Catalunya. Now you face a new challenge on stock-derived bikes. Perhaps it will find its place in motorcycling there.
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