The six-ti🍬me WorldSBK champion fin💝ished second in both Race 1 and Sunday’s Superpole Race, and was firmly in contention to repeat that type of result before crashing at turn nine.

After seeing Toprak Razgatlioglu attempt a pass on Bautista for the lead, Rea chose to do the same one lap later although he faced the same outcome which was to be re-pasꦡsed by the reigning world champion later in the lap.

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Rea then lost second place again to Razgatlioglu on lap si⛄x before his race-changing moment occurred. 

"It’s unfortunate that the weekend ended like that as we have a lot of pos𝓰itives to take away," said Rea. "I lost track position with Toprak early on but when I got back through, I had a li🦋ttle bobble coming out of the last corner and he came back through into Turn 1. 

"From there, it was difficult, becꦯause with Alvaro in front, I was able to understand the gap coming through the fast sections where I could grit my teeth and make up the margin coming through Turn 6 to Turn 8. 

"With Toprak in the mid🎉dle, he was also in between mine and Alvaro’s speed there, so I wasn’t able to fully gain. Anyway, I was there and I was more comfortabl💞e than yesterday."

Still unsure how he crashed and whether it was his own mistake or something wrong mecha🧔nically, Rea said pressure on the arm of t🍒he gear lever was there all weekend.

Rea added: "Going into Turn 9, I crashed on the front, zero idea how, we🍸’ll have to check some data. 

"There was some pressure on the gear cell,♏ maybe I was putting some pressure on the arm of the gear lever… it’s been happening all weekend to be honest, but this one time, at Turn 9, as soon as I opened the throttle and engaged third gear, that was enough to take the engine breaking, lose traction and crash. 

"Frustrated, but we have more positives to take from this we♑ekend than negatives. I felt like ꩲI wasn’t over my head, so whether it was clumsy big feet or mechanically how the arm of the gear shifter was and maybe we can improve something."