While Bautista and his former teammate Leon Haslam are moving on, Honda will race with youngsters Iker Lecuona (21) and Xavi Vierge (24) in 2022. The new pair have already done brief testing at Jerez (with Lecuona breaking his pinky finger and missing the final day of testing). Lecuona arrives from the KTM MotoGP satellite team, while Vierge is moving on from several years in Moto2.
Also new for 2022, Honda will run Showa suspension and Nissin brakes, replacing the comparable components from Ohlins and Brembo. We understand that Kawasaki has been running Showa suspension in WSB with BMW using Nissin brakes.
MD thinks the 21-year-old Lecuona is still blossoming and could be a future WSB champion. Any way you look at it, Honda doesn’t like to lose and will be pushing for big results in WSB next year.
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