Lecuona, who just finished a very busy end to the season after cont🌼inuing to replace Alex Rins in MotoGP, flew straight from Qatar to Jerez in order to 💫test the 2024 CBR1000RR-R.

A big step for🍸ward was the hope for Honda, who have struggled to get on terms with its rivals in recent seasons, and that’s the takeaway from Lecuona.

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Speaking to WorldSBK.com after the two-day outing, Lecuona s🐎aid: “I’m really happy because it’s a big surprise ꦇabout the step and the bike that Japan brings us. It’s a big surprise. 

“In terms of chassis, electronics, engine… everything changed a lot. We made a good step in a few areas, and in 🔴other areas we are still struggling a little bit that we need to understand better. 

“What is true is that we ⛄needed to learn about the feeling of the bike a lot in these two days. I needed to change my style a lot to go fast. 

“🌳Even with the SC0, the performance was amazing. The tyr🔯e wear is really good for us; we could never do these laps at the end of the race. Really happy about this.”

One of the busiest riders in the world since the summer break, Lecuona commitment🔥s to both WoꦉrldSBK and MotoGP meant the Spaniard was consistently racing at the highest level.

Doing so aboard two u🍎nder-performing machines, Lecuona said fatigue was an issue on the secon꧂d day of the test. 

“I’m very tired from all the trav🥂elling so on the sec🔜ond day, I struggled more to understand the bike,” added the Team HRC rider. 

“We tried to do our best in terms of electronics, where we need to do work compared to last year to u💎nderstand more new𒊎 things. 

“I’m quite happy but still we need to improve, we need to under𓆏stand this new bike. I think it’s a really good step. Let’s see in the next test how it is.”