Filtering by Free Practice
The curtain has gone up on the final round of the 2022 Superbike World Championship at the Philip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Australia. Team HRC is on track for the season finale with Xavi Vierge and HRC test rider Tetsuta Nagashima, who stands in for injured Iker Lecuona. The… read more.
Iker Lecuona has been declared unfit to compete in the remainder of the Indonesian WorldSBK round after an highside during the second practice at the Mandalika International Street Circuit in Indonesia saw him hit the ground hard at turn 4. With the track offering more grip than it had in… read more.
The tenth round of the 2022 Superbike World Championship sees Team HRC in action at the San Juan Villicum circuit in Argentina. Factory riders Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge completed Friday’s free practice sessions in seventh and thirteenth place respectively, laying the foundations for what promises to be a positive… read more.
The Autódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portugal is the stage for the last European round of the 2022 Superbike World Championship and Team HRC is keen to exploit the fact it is competing at a track that rookie riders Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge already know. Aware that one of… read more.
Round eight of the 2022 Superbike World Championship is now underway, with Team HRC in action at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and particularly eager to perform at what is a home track for both Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge. The factory team completed Friday’s free practice sessions with Lecuona and… read more.
Team HRC is now on track at the Nevers Magny-Cours Circuit in France, competing in the seventh round of the 2022 Superbike World Championship with factory riders Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge. A continuous alternation of rain, sun, cool air and rain again, in typical Magny-Cours style, made the Spanish… read more.
The sixth Superbike World Championship is now in play at the Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic, where Team HRC riders Xavi Vierge and Iker Lecuona have completed the day’s first free practice sessions. Having not visited the track before, both Lecuona and Vierge needed to first get a handle… read more.
Team HRC is out on track for the fifth round of the 2022 Superbike World Championship at the Donington Park circuit in the UK. Neither Iker Lecuona or Xavi Vierge has raced at the British track before, although Iker did benefit from a short one-day test last month. The Team… read more.
With the top twelve riders separated by just nine tenths of a second at the end of the first day of practice at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge placed eighth and eleventh respectively today and are keen to further reduce the gap to the… read more.
The 2022 Superbike World Championship continues this weekend on Portuguese soil, with round three now underway at the Estoril Circuit. Team HRC riders Xavi Vierge and Iker Lecuona have made a solid start to proceedings, rounding out Friday’s free practice sessions in seventh and ninth position overall. The weekend’s opening… read more.
