Iker Lecuona out of Jerez World Superbike after Sunday morning crash

Factory Honda WorldSBK rider Iker Lecuona has 🅷been ruled out of the 💫final race of the 2024 World Superbike Championship.

Iker Lecuona, 2024 Spanish WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Iker Lecuona, 2024 Spanish WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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Iker Lecuona has been ruled out of the final race of this year’♛s WorldSBK season after a crash in the Superpole Race.

Lecuona, who finished🐓 fifth in Saturday’s Race 1, crashed together with his HRC teammate, Xavi Vierge, in the WorldSBK Superpole Race in Jerez.

While Vierge was able to walk away from the cra♛sh, Lecuona — visibly in pain according to the replays shown by the international TV feed — was taken to the medical centre.

Shortly after the⛄ conclusion of the Superpole Race, which was won by Ducati’s Nicolo Bulega, Lecuona was declared unfit for the remainder of this weekend’s action in Jerez, which amoun𒆙ts only to Race 2 later today, the final race of the season.

Lecuona suffered a “displaced🌄 fracture of the left fifth metatarsal bone,” per an official WorldSBK communication.

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