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 finishi🍸ng third in Race 2 at Assen, but after making improvements during testing compared to where he ended his rookie 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 yearꦬ. 

🌄"We’ve worked a lot in the winter and in pre-season on our pace in t👍he race, and this makes the difference in 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 their summer and then Indonesia. 

"These are two circuits that I really like and that our bike works quite well, so we’ll try to take advantage t🍨o🐭 fight well. 

"About being best Honda, this is my target and Iker and I are pushing ourselves to the limit. We’re improving together, whi🀅ch helps improve the team. I hope we don’t have🎃 bad injuries like last year, and I hope that we can fight until the end together."

As already mentioned, Vierge's best result of fourth at Misano wꩵ꧟as impressive, although it came after a big tyre gamble saw him go with the more favoured qualifying option during the ten-lap Superpole 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. 

"Our go🎀al was to improve our race pace on the race tyres, and I think we achieved it. 

"If we compare ourselves from before, I think we made a big step forward and I’m looking forward to arriving to Australia to take profit of the next two days of♎ testing."