Iker Lecuona arrives at🔯 the end of his third🐻 season in WorldSBK with Honda having finally returned to the podium last time out in Estoril.

It was Lecuona’s second WorldSBK podium, the other coming in the 2022 Dutch Round when Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea both crashed🍌 out.

For Lecuona, it was the result of a strong season from HRC’s WorldSBK team that has seen it make significant progress in terms of performance for perhaps the first time since t▨he project began in 2020.

“I’m really happy after the first podium after the season and second in WorldSBK,” Lecuona told WorldSBK ahead of the Spanish WorldS🎃BK♒ this weekend at Jerez.

“After all t⛦he injuries, all the work at home and at the track, we’re happy to have that result.”

Thinking abou🌱t this weekend’s Jerez race, Lecuona said that the circuit is not one of the best for him or for the CBR1000RR-R, but he is encouraged by his rec🌺ent form.

“I always said during these year𝓀s that this is one of the worst tracks for us, or one I struggle at more during the last two years,” he said.

“It looks like we’re quite fast. I think from the summer, we did a good 😼job on the bike; the pace was improving during the weekends.

“My strategy with my crew chie♔f, the feeling on the bike, everyt🅘hing we improved a lot.

“When we started this year, I had a lot of injuries,ꦜ but we also didn’t have a clear base on the bike. We started from zero.

“This year, we finished the yea🐻r with a good base, so we’ll start next year from that base that is performing quite well.”