Honda’s Xavi Vierge was sc🍒uppered by the weather and a crash at t🌠he World Superbike Championship test in Portimao.

The second of the two days of testing was severely hampered by rain and Honda were among those to s♏u﷽ffer.

As well as Vierge taking a tumble, Honda were unable🥀 to complete their testing🌠 programme leaving them with a headache ahead of the new WBSK season.

Vierge said about his Turn 1 crash where he locked the front tyre: “It was a small one but it’s a fast track,🌳 and in wet [conditions] everything goes even faster when you touch the ground. But it’s what it is, physically I’m fine.”

Viꦕerge was fourth-fastest on Day 1 in Portimao, and nint🍬h on Day 2 despite the limited running.

A ꦰweek earlier in Jerez, hꦅe was fourth. So his form is good although Honda were left frustrated by the limited action on Wednesday at Portimao.

Honda were unable to gather feedback on their new Ohlins suspension. And Vierge was unable to build a relationship with new crew chief 🐠Tetusya Sasaki.

“Unfortunately, we don’t haꩵve so much dry time here,” he said.

“♕We can use the half-day, but in corner four and 13 there was a river of water all day.

“Anyway♊, we can make good progress; we came here with the bike of Jerez and see how it works here.

“At the beginning, I was struggling a little bit, but we mad꧃e some changes on the bike setup and it affected the bike a lot on the bike, and I started to feel very good.

“So, [Tuesday] has 𒁃been a very positive one. [Wednesday], unfortunately, as soon as we went out from the box it started to rain, but [it was] the kind of day that it’s not enough water on track to test on a proper rain.

“So, we decided to use a flag-to-flag꧙ – basically a dry setting with [wet] tyres – andও see how it works.

“Honestly, the feeling was not so bad, but in 🍷corner one I locked the front; it was a super-strange crash, unfortunately, but it is what it is.

“I think it was the time to try these kind of things; so, happy wit𒆙h the job done, and I hope in Australia there will be more dry time to try to make a step forward.

“[/We want to] continue with the work. Unfortunately, we have many plansꩵ for these four days [in Jerez and Portimao] ꦓthat we cannot do.

“So, we will try to ma♌ke all the [work] that we can, we will focus o𝕴n the electronics, and find the bike setup – we will move to another different track so we will see how the bike works there.”

WSBK have ꦇtwo days of testing in Phillip 𓄧Island before the season begins at the same venue.

Vierge sꦚaid: “I feel good. Of course, until we arrive there – winter test is winter test, even the first two days in Australia will be winter tests.

“The real championship will start on the race weekend. But we will just focus on ourselves; I think we𝓰 are making a good⭕ job in the right direction, so I hope we can see the results in Australia.”