After losing the services of Alvaro Bautista to Ducati, Honda caused a stir last year when it elected to jettison the experienced Leon Haslam in favour of KTM MotoGP refugee Lecuona and Moto2 graduate Vierge.
The two Spanish youngsters sampled the Honda CBR1000RR-R in last year’s post-season test at Jerez, and accumulated further mileage on Wednesday at the same track in their first running of 2022.
Vierge logged the second-fastest time of the day, a 1m40.342s, falling just 0.026s shy of Kawasaki pacesetter Alex Lowes, while Lecuona was just behind on a 1m40.496s. Kawasaki’s six-time champion Jonathan Rea sat out the day’s action to preserve his test allocation.
Camier said that while it remains early days for Honda’s novice pairing, the signs so far have been encouraging.
“My first impression of both riders has been very, very positive,” Camier told the official WSBK website. “Both are quite different riders in their approach to everything, but both are super-fast straight…
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