Ex-MotoGP racer Lecuona scored his first WSBK pole in Saturday’s Superpole session, and was in a strong position to challenge for a first podium finish since April’s Assen round for much of the opening race.
Having run third behind a dominant Alvaro Bautista and Toprak Razgatlioglu, who moved into the top two positions at the very start of the race, Lecuona found himself demoted to sixth in the closing part of the 20-lap contest behind Michael Ruben Rinaldi, Jonathan Rea and Garrett Gerloff.
