Lucky escape for Jonathan Rea: “It felt like I was tumbling forever”

Jonathan Rea: “It was just 🌺a blur really – it was that fast. I went down and it felt like I was t🌠umbling forever.”

Jonathan Rea, 2024 Misano WorldSBK
Jonathan Rea, 2024 Misano WorldSBK

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonathan Rea suffered another p🎐unishing day on the Yamaha R1 at Misano on Saturday, qualifying just 15th and then suffering a massive accident on the opening lap of Race 1.

The Ulsterman sustained left wrist and hand contusions but fortunately escaped seriou🐻s injury. However, he will be reassessed before warm-up tomorrow morning.

“Really frustrated, because my race ended before it had begun,” said the six-time 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:WorldSBK champion. “Iꦿt was a knock-on effect from a bad qualifying, being in the middl🔥e of a mess in the first corners.

“Then when things started stringing out in the fast section, I got quite cl꧒ose to Aegerter in the fast Turn 12 and just opened up the line a little bit to create some space but ran over the shoulder of the corner and to be honest from that moment, it was just a blur really – it was that fast.

“I went down and it felt like I was tumbling forever, but I’m so thankful to have good protection from Alpinestars and Arai – they kept me safe today, apart from a few b🧔umps and bruises, but I should be good for to💝morrow.

“The target is to try to get some good feeling tomorrow, make a good start and start finding som💫e confidence.”

Team boss Paul Denning added: "Q💙ualifying was a disaster for Jonathan... We weren’t a million miles🗹 away but the position was disappointing.

“He felt better on a revised setting on the sighting laps, but unfortunately a huge crash on Lap 1 at Turn 13 means that we don’t have any more information and we didn’t get a chance to build the flow and confidence going into tomorrow – but the m🍬ost critical point is that Jonathan is more or less ok.

“We’ll keep our heads, keepᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ positive and do everything we can to help JR come back to his♏ true level and climb out of this difficult moment as a team.”

Rea’s Pata team-mate Andre📖a Locatelli finished as the top R1 rider 🅺in fourth place after early race leader Remy Gardner faded to sixth place.

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