Much-needed testing boost for Jonathan Rea who pinpoints Yamaha area to improve
Jonathan Rea dissects a positi꧒ve day of testing his Yamaha on Thursday in Barcelona
Finally, some good news for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonathan Rea.
The Yamaha rider emerged from Thursday, the first of two days of WorldSBK testing at the&nbs🔜p;Circuit de Barcelona-Cataluny💝a, optimistic about his feeling and the development of his bike.
Rea finisheꦬd fifth-quickest on Thursday after completing 73 laps where he was consistently among the frontrunners, posting a top time of 1’41.655s.
“From Lap 1, the bike felt more normal, more like it had when testing 💛throug🤡hout the winter,” Rea said.
“The guys went back to Milan after Australia to analyse all our issues and prob☂lems we’ve been having.
“We came here, fixed all of that.
“We s👍till have some things to work on but now it feels like a normal test. We can keep working lap by lap.
“Phillip Island was a really bad start. Mentally, we had a bit more of a reset and started from z♛ero, but also some changes to the bike with🉐 more of a base.
“I felt quite okay with t💃he bike. It feels good but I’m not talking 100%; we need to work ♊in some areas.”
Rea scored zero points ⛦on his Yamaha debut at Phillip Island in the first round of the 2024 season, and💞 crashed in Race 2.
But꧃ in Barcelona on Thursday, the rear 🌳chatter problem that he suffered with in Australia had gone.
It left Rea pointing at anoth𓆉er area he 🥀wants Yamaha to prioritise.
“An area I really want to focus on with the bike i🦂s trying to generate traction 🔯with the rear,” he said.
“That’s not just coming from a rear shock or suspension, that’s a combination of linkage, swingarm, bike character… it’s really hard to p♍inpoint where to improve that.
“No c🤪omplaints, for sure. They’re working in a really good way.”
Rea returns to test again on Friday in Barcelona.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade🌱 covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
