This week’s Aragon WorldSBK take a look at will see Sergio Garcia make his WorldSBK debut.
Garcia will get his first style of World Superbike with the Honda HRC staff on Monday at MotorLand Aragon, the place among the groups from the manufacturing spinoff sequence will take a look at forward of the primary spherical after the summer season break at Magny-Cours on 5–7 September.
The 22-year-old Valencian will journey instead of Iker Lecuona, who suffered a double arm fracture on the Hungarian Spherical in July.
Garcia has expertise with Honda however solely in Moto3 and within the JuniorGP sequence, when it was the Moto3 Junior World Championship.
The 2-time Moto2 race winner made his return to racing this weekend on the Hungarian MotoGP, racing within the Moto2 class with the IntactGP staff and taking a Sixteenth-place end.
He had been out of motion earlier than that for the reason that Aragon Grand Prix, after which he break up with the QJMotor Frinsa MSi staff he gained two races with final 12 months.
Garcia additionally introduced over the weekend that he shall be becoming a member of the Gresini Racing Moto2 staff subsequent 12 months together with Alonso Lopez, with whom Garcia was teammates within the 2019 Moto3 World Championship on the Estrella Galicia 0,0 Honda staff.
The Gresini information signifies that Garcia’s Aragon take a look at can’t be considered as an audition for a 2026 World Superbike journey, but when Lecuona is unable to make a return to racing at Magny-Cours Garcia may very well be in-line to step in if he makes a ok impression over the following two days alongside Xavi Vierge.
Though he has expertise of Aragon from his Moto3 and Moto2 profession, Garcia has by no means excelled at MotorLand, scoring factors solely twice in six makes an attempt – each occasions within the Moto3 class with seventh in 2019 and thirteenth in 2022.
