Jonathan Rea’s first words after testing (and crashing) his new WorldSBK Yamaha
The six-time 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:WorldSBK champ𒁏ion will swap Kawasaki for Yamaha next season, and debuted for his🔴 new manufacturer at Tuesday’s Jerez test.
A minor crash at Turn 13 did not stop Rea going fourth-fa✅stest on a rain-interrupted day.
He posted a top t🔯ime of 1’40.302s but was only able to complete 12 laps (the second-lowest out of every rider) due to the rain and his crash.
Rea’s best time was less than half-a-second from Remy Gardner, who was fastest on Tues🌄day.
Rea reflected on his crash: “I’m fine. I got unsighted by another rider on track and just opened up the last cornerౠ to square them off and hit a wet patch.
“Christened the bike, unfortunately.
“One that’s easy to t👍ake because I got caught out by a patch and not soꦺmething over the limit.
“I think there’s still a lot of margin with the bike. It’s user friendly which give💦s me🐼 a good feeling.
“I had an amazing team before, I can’t speak highly enough൩ about them and always as a 🎉rider, you think how it’s going to be.
“The Pata Yamaha Prometeon team have been incredible from my first deali♋ngs.
“Making me feel at home, everything from a very nice welcome dinner last night witꦡh me and my family. They’ve made me feel at home and really loved. How we’re working inside the box is really positive.
“It was fantastic to get the first laps on the R1 because you always have anticipation and maybe a pꦯreconception of how the bike’s going to be.
“I’ve been super excited until this morning, and then I ♒got really nervous all of a sudden.
“I was thinking ‘can I be fast with the bike?’ or ‘what’s it going to feel like sitt꧃ing on the bike during the bike fit?’.
“I got comfortable bu𝓰t the position felt strange, and I couldn’t imagine riding the bike.&nꦐbsp;
“As soon as I exited pitlane, there were𓆉 a lot of positives straight away I could take. We did three out💮ings.
“The weather has been f🌼ar from perfect. Even this morning, at a lot of corners, it was full of wet patches.
“Just before lunch, we got a lot of drizzle and then𒁏 the track got soaked. We considered keeping the bike nice and dry for tomorrow and keeping with the test plan. Hopefully the track can dry out tonight, maybe it’ll be a late start tomorrow, but it’s also important to ride in the wet.”
Rea will get another go on his new Yamaha on Wednesday, the final day 🍒o🅠f testing in Jerez.
“I think this test 𝕴i✨s primarily about being comfortable,” he said.
“I asked not to test too many hardware parts, electronic parts. I want to come away from here understanding the R1, finꦫd💦ing the limit of the bike with my style and then, once everything becomes familiar and automatic, then we can start to test hard parts.
“If we start doing that now, it’s very easy to get lost. The team unders💮tand that.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for ဣa decade covering everything from American 🌺sports, to football, to F1.
