After suffer🅘ing an injury in the pre-season WorldSBK test at Phillip Islඣand, Iker Lecuona made his return to action in Catalunya.

Lecuona, who cut short his running on day-one, was again in action during🥃 day-two as he tried an old♉er spec swingarm.

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Lecu🐽ona said: “We tried the new items which are a question for us; I could take data for the team, which is positive.

“The second day👍 felt more comfortable on the bike so it was less painful for the shoulder but in the end, the last run was more aggressive and braking for Turn 10, it was more painful and it felt like a big punch in the shoulder.

“I said ‘OK, let’s finish for today’; at the end, it wasn’t nice to not do many laps but now i🍒t’s time to recover and be ready for next week.

“I can say I prefer the old swingarm; we need to confirm that with the data because ꩵwe need to change more items on the bike to use it, as it’s old but it has some positive points that right now, we♑ need to talk to the team and the Japanese engineers, to see if we can use it or not and what we need to do to feel more comfortable.”

Fastest of all the Honda riders for the second consecutive day, Xavi Vierge admitted Honda managed to complete their en💦tire test program without an🐼y hiccups.

“We’ve been able to complete our work plan for these tests, while making adjustments along the way of course,” began Vierge. 

𒉰“The feeling with the bike wasn’t so bad when w💖e started on Thursday but when we made a set-up change later that day, to try and improve the drive, this unfortunately caused my feeling to diminish.

“The work continued on Friday though, when we made a lot of laps an💖d tested some new parts, particula🌃rly concerning the electronics, the engine brake area, and the swing-arm.

“Even though🅰 we haven't yet realised all the benefits we were hoping for, the test has given us indications of the direction to follow𒁏.

“We now have a lot of data to analyse in orderღ to find the best possible base for the race weeken꧒d.

“I want to thank the team for all their hard work here and also Honda a𝓡nd HRC - everyone is working tirelessly in Japan to bring us new items and improve our machine, so a big thank you to everyone. Let's keep pushing forward.”