Iker Lecuona has revealed the physical challenge of returning to WorldSBK acᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtion after five months with almost no riding.

The Honda 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike rider was injured at last year’s final WorldSBK round in Jerez, then again during training in January. He wasn’t able to participate in either of the two weather-affected Euro♐pean tests, and in Australia he crashed himself out of the weekend at Lukey Heights in Superpole with a fractured metacarpal in his left foot.

Returning to action🦂 one month later at the Portuguese Round in Portimao – having been forced to miss the Portimao test a couple o🔜f weeks before the race weekend – the Spanish rider had barely ridden since the Superpole Race at Jerez back in October.

“I need to say that after the Superpole Race, when the adrenaline dropped, I was done, I was on the chair in the box and was almost asleep in the chair,” Lecuona joked af💮ter Race 2 when s꧂peaking to WorldSBK.com.

“So, of course, after five months without riding any bike, it was not easy to manage [physically], but for this part als൩o I’m even more happy﷽.

“So, we can manage the physical condition, we can manage the job, we can manage everything – even the attitude when I’m insi🐓de the box I don’t care. So, really happy.”

Lecuona added that the Portuguese Round was the first time he’d been able to rideꦿ a bike without any pain since his crash at the Spanish Round last October.

“It’s the first tim𒐪e since October that I can ride the bike without any pain,” he said.

“We worked very hard during this winter, or these five months that I need to recover the b💜ody, to recover the mind – mentally I dropped a lot at the beginning, but I could manage the situation with family, the psychologist, friends. Everyone tried to help me to arrive to Portimao and to be ready to fight.

“I’m really happy also 💯for myself because at the end on Friday I was [16th], but I didn’t care about my position, I looked more about my feeling, I looked at the job we did inside the box; and I’m really happy with the team, also.

“I say thanks to the team because they don’t ඣput me under any pressure, it’s the opposite [because] they tried to stop me [coming back too soon], and this gave me an ☂extra calmness to work with them.”

The resultsꦇ were also something for Lecuona to be pleased about,💮 even an 11th in Race 1.

“We ꦉdid a really good job [on Saturday] – 11th in Superpole,𒉰11th in the race – but still we had something to find on the bike,” he explained.

“This morning, in Warm Up, we found it, and honestly in the Superpole Race I didn’t expect that pace – ninth, with everyone on track, is 🔯really n🌊ice for me.

“Also, in Race 2, before the red flag I was [able to be sixth]. In the restart, okay, fight a little bit, I almost crashed a few times and I wanted to finish so I🐟 finished eighth but still it was ♌a really good performance for me.

“After a lot of months, I’m really happy.”