2022 will be a year of great changes for the Honda team in the Superbike world championship. After returning in an official capacity in 2020, the Japanese team relaunches itself with an entirely renewed line-up that points to the future. As already announced a few weeks ago by Motorsport.com, the new drivers of the HRC team in the world championship of production derivatives will be Xavi Vierge and Iker Lecuona.
The two Spaniards will replace Alvaro Bautista, who returns to Ducati after two years, and Leon Haslam, who has no longer found a place in the golden wing team. Both Vierge and Lecuona come from the prototype world championship, the first comes from Moto2 and the second from MotoGP. Xavi Vierge is finishing his seventh season in the intermediate class this year, lacking in results. For him only four podiums, the last of which he won in Barcelona several weeks ago.
After a debut in Valencia in 2019 to replace the injured Miguel Oliveira, Iker Lecuona earned a starting place in 2020 with the KTM Tech 3 team. Also confirmed in 2021, the Spaniard did not achieve the desired results and the team he decided not to renew it, but the doors of the Superbike world championship have opened for him. Lecuona will make his debut in the series derivatives at 22, therefore, together with the 24-year-old Vierge, the line-up will be very young and represents an interesting bet by Honda.
Xavi Vierge, Petronas Sprinta Racing
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