Lecuona will ride for LCR Honda at this weekend’s Malaysian MotoGP as a replacement for the iಌnjured Alex Rins, and has also replaced Marc Marquez during his absenc💟es previously while holding down a WorldSBK place.

But, he won’t receive Honda’s full-time bike next year, and is annoyed🍌 by the possibility of Fermin Aldeguer - the 18-year-old Moto2 starlet - being selected ahead of him.

Asked if he’d been told who will replace the outgo🌠ing Marquez at Repsol Honda, he told : “No! Honestly, no, and that hurts, hurts a lot.”

And Lecuona admitted the pain is worse if a rider with less experience is pic🌺ked.

“One hundred percent, you don't really know what a kick in the b🐼a🅺lls that would be,” he said. 

“That's how I say it, then my manager will come and tell me whatever, but it wo💖uld be a kick in the balls, yes. 

“Because I think that Honda is not ready to tak✱e on a young, inexperienced rider. 

“I am young, but I have two years of experi🀅ence in Mo🌺toGP. 

“I have had ve𓃲ry good races and I have gone very fast with the MotoGP in the fifth race with the Honda, at Silverstone in which the weather did not allow i🐓t and a race with a small bike, which was Marc's, due to size, which was the first time I got on it. In fifth I was ahead of two Hondas in the short race and close to the other. 

“So, yes, yes, a kick that hurts, the kind that you need half 💃an hour to recover from.”

Lecuona’s emotio𝓡nal reaction to 😼being overlooked continued.

“Disappointment, yes. I admit that,” he said.

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“When they told me it was a disappointment, after all the effort, sacrifice and work꧒. 

“In the end you get excited about somet🅷hing like that because you are there, day after day working for a goal that in the end doesn't arrive, for A or B.

“I'm not saying anything anymore, but you ❀do get a letdown, which was in the end week of the Jere🌼z race. 

“I have to take the positive things and also the objective was to sign two more years with HRC, with the official Honda fac𝔉tory team [in WorldSBK], where I know that I am hi🙈ghly valued and that they love me. 

“That's why the𝄹y signed me again for two years. They tꦐrust me and they have renewed me again.”

🎉Lecuona took issues with the explanation he was given for not being chosen as a full-time Repsol Honda rider.

“There is one that I don't believe and another that is a bit o💜f the situation that my representative expl𝄹ained to me, who comes from outside. 

“He sees it in one way, they comment onꦚ it in another way and I am the rider and that's why I am the person who can take it for good or bad.

“I took it ver💦y badly and then he explained to me that it is because of this, this and this... 

“As an intermediate point I then said, well, it mak💫es sense, they have reasons to do that, but I still am not satisfied. 

“Well, what I wanted was something else, but I'm still happy in SBK. I know that a bike arrives with many changes, so I really want to𝓰 get on that new bike to see if they have really stepped up and brought what they have said they are going to.”