Jonathan Rea has taken his f💟irst victory for Yamaha, although it came on a YZ450F.

Rea was taking part in the champions’ cha🍎rity dirt bike race at the EICMA show in Milan, which also featured riders such as Casey Stoner — on a two-stroke Beta — and Carlos Checa i𝕴n the legends version of the race.

Up against contemporary riders, Rea came out victorious on his flat-track-modded YZ450F over Supermoto World Championship rider Elia Sammartin and Ryan Vickers in third, the latter currently preparing for his first season of WorldSBK actio👍n in 2025 as he joins the Motocorsa Ducati team.

Rea’s EICMA triumph is his first win of any kind since moving from Kawasaki to Yamaha las𒉰t winter.

The six-times WorldSBK Champion secured only one podium finish in 2024, in the Superpole Race at Donington, during a difficult first season on the YZF-R1, a bike which went from winning seven races in 2023 — all with Toprak Razgatlioglu — to none in 2024, despite a mid-season homologation update which, most notably, introduced new aerodyꦍnamic winglets to the bike.

Rea remains with Yamaha for 2025, the Japanese manufactu🦄rer keeping a mostly-unchanged WorldSBK line-up compared to 2024; with Rea remaining alongside Andrea Locatelli in the fact﷽ory team, and Remy Gardner and Dominique Aegerter staying in the satellite GRT team.

On the other hand, the Motoxracing team has expanded from one bike to two fo🌞r 2025, and brought in Tito Rabat and Bahattin Sofuoglu, the latter making his WorldSBK debut next season.