While꧂ both Lecuona and Xavi Vierge have had one or more top five finishes this season, a lack of consistency and overall pace compared to ꦆthe fastest teams and riders in WorldSBK has again left Honda needing to do a lot more.

As is the case in MotoGPꦐ, Honda have become accustomed to finis🉐hing at the lower end of the top ten, although in WorldSBK there hasn’t been the fall from grace that has occurred in Grand Prix.

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Still, Honda are recognised as one of the biggest manufacturers, if not the biggest and their performance are doing li🌠ttle to suggest such 🦂a title.

Lecu▨ona, who again looked out of sorts last weekend, said this to WorldSBK.com: "I don’t wanꦰt to say anything in general. I struggled. We don’t know why. 

"In Race 1 when I crashed, I didn’t do anything. Everything was the same but, at the end of the race with the 🌜used tyre, I crashed. I didn’t do anytꦅhing special. 

"It’s not an easy♓ moment for us. We struggled a lot. We don’t understand anything.  🌱It’s not the best way. On Sunday, we tried different things. 

"In the ⛦morning, it worked. In the afternoon, my start was fine but the first lap, with the new base, I couldn’t have a good ﷽warm up on the rear tyre so I almost crashed at Turn 7. I fell behind Tito. 

"My pace was really good, really strong in the mid 1’27s or lower. We made a small st🌳ep. Now we need to understand why and what changed on the bike and why we struggled like this."

For Vierge, the Spaniard failed to record a single top ten result last weekend, which comes off the back of a good round in Misano where he claimed P5 in ✤Race 2.

"Of course this weekend was a tough one for 💜us, and we didn’t expect to struggle so much here really," state🍒d Vierge. 

"As always, me and the team worked very hard to try and achieve the maximum possౠible in every session. 

"We were unable to score points on Sunday - in the Superpole Race we were not fast enough and in Race 2 we made a good start and were lying mid-pack but unfortunately, we had a small problem that forꦛced me to pit. 

"It’s the first time it’s happened to be fair, and better for it to happen in a race where we were struggling anyway💦 rather than during a weekend where we’re fighting for a strong result."