WorldSBK: Xavi Vierge a ‘big step ahead compared to 2022’, aiming for podiums in second season

After securing a best of fourth during the Superpole race at Misano last season, Vierge wants to join teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Iker Lecuona in adding his name to the WorldSBK podium club.
Lecuona has the upper hand thanks to finishing third in Race 2 at Assen, but after making improvements durin𒅌g testing compared to where he ended his r♉ookie season, the former Moto2 rider has bigger ambitions to go with it.
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"Of course, challenging for podiums is one of the main objectives this year," stated 🌟Vierge. "After one year of experience for us, we’re a big step ahead compared to 2022 and we’ll start the weekends with a great base and a lot of information from last year.
"We’ve worked a lot in the winter and in pre-season on our pace in the race, and this makes the difference inꦅ the last part of the race.
"We’re doing a good job and we hope to achieve the podiums as soon as possible. The season starts in a lot better place in Australia in tꦓheir summer an♑d then Indonesia.
"These are two circuits that I really like and that our bike ♔works quite well, so we’ll try to take a🎶dvantage to fight well.
"About being best Honda, this is my target and Iker and I are pushing ourselves to the limit. We’re improving together, which helps improve the team. I hopᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe we don’t have bad injuries like last year, and I hope that we caꩵn fight until the end together."
As already mentioned, Vierge's best result of fourth at Misano was impreꩲssive, although it came after a big tyre gamble saw him go with the more favoured qualifying option during the ten-lap S🐠uperpole Race, which is why extensive work on race tyres has been put in so far this pre-season.
Vierge added: "We found a base set-up and we improved it a lot on the race simulation. With respect to our race pace from last year, we improved on the hard tyres but then in both the tests, with the softer tyres, I struggled a little bit more.&ꦫnbsp;
"Our goal was to improve our race pace on the race tyres, and I💛 think we achieved it.
"If we c𒐪ompare ourselves from before, I think we made a big step forward and I’𝔍m looking forward to arriving to Australia to take profit of the next two days of testing."