Team HRC in the points in Race 2 at Donington

Team HRC riders Xavi Vierge and Iker Lecuona wrapped up an intense WorldSBK race weekend at Donington Park with points in Race 2.

Vierge and Lecuona first made good use of the ten-minute morning warm-up, carrying out some final technical checks. That done, the team turned its attention to the Superpole race, which ran at 11am local time in dry albeit very cloudy conditions. Vierge was lying thirteenth but lost two places mid-race. Although times remained in line with those of his closest rivals, Xavi was unable to make up the ground, crossing the line fifteenth. Team-mate Lecuona, who had made a different tyre choice, was running sixteenth in the early stages of this ten-lap sprint but later dropped back to seventeenth, which is where he finished the race, closing two seconds behind Vierge.

At 2pm the lights went out on the weekend’s final Superbike race. The weather also remained dry for this 23-lapper, with Vierge making a good start to place eleventh through the first laps. Losing a little ground as the race went on, the Spaniard slipped to fourteenth, while team-mate Iker was pushing hard to reach the points zone from sixteenth. By mid-race, a small gap had opened up ahead of Xavi, while Iker had progressed to within a tenth of a second of his team-mate. Able to sneak past Vierge on lap 21, Lecuona ultimately crossed the line in fourteenth position, just three tenths ahead of his team-mate, fifteenth.

After the first five rounds of the 2024 WorldSBK championship, Vierge places sixteenth in the general classification (26 points), with Lecuona lying nineteenth (24 points). Team HRC will travel immediately on to Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic where round six is taking place on 19-21 July.