World Superbike rider Iker Lecuona will substitute the injured Alex Marquez at this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix for the Gresini Racing MotoGP outfit.
Marquez suffered a severe crash on the Catalan Grand Prix on 17 Could which pressured him to overlook final weekend’s Mugello race with the Spaniard additionally skipping the Balaton Park spherical.
Lecuona is subsequently set to begin his first MotoGP race since Qatar in 2023, having since competed in WorldSBK and is at present second within the 2026 standings.
An announcement from Gresini on Tuesday stated: “Iker Lecuona, quantity 27, will return to the MotoGP paddock, changing Alex Marquez, quantity 73, on the Balaton Park circuit for the eighth spherical of the season.
Qatar was the penultimate spherical of 2023 and Lecuona competed for the LCR Honda staff changing the then-injured Alex Rins for what was his thirty seventh begin within the class.
He began his world championship profession in Moto2 in 2016 and, after 4 seasons, on the finish of the ultimate marketing campaign he made his premier class debut for KTM in Valencia.
Alex Marquez, Gresini Racing crash
Picture by: DANIEL BALLARIN / AFP by way of Getty Photographs
Lecuona spent the subsequent two years at KTM in MotoGP earlier than transferring to Honda in WorldSBK for 2022, that means this weekend’s race is his first grand prix aboard a Ducati.
Cal Crutchlow to proceed with LCR for Zarco
Lecuona will not be the one stand-in rider this weekend as Cal Crutchlow is about to proceed after making his MotoGP return at Mugello to interchange the injured Johann Zarco for LCR Honda.
That was the Briton’s first MotoGP race since 2023 and the 40-year-old carried out respectably earlier than retiring with a shoulder drawback.
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