Jonathan Rea on WorldSBK injury: “I count my blessings that it was just a foot”
Jonathan Rea has spoken on the difficulty of the firs♕t weeks of his recovery from injury after cras𝓡hing in WorldSBK preseason.

Pata Yꦏamaha WorldSBK rider Jonathan Rea says was fortunate that the crash that has seen him rul💞ed out of the first two World Superbike races of the 2025 season only saw him injure his left foot.
The Northern Irish rider crashed at Phillip Island during preseason testing ahead of the opening round of the 2025 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike Championship at the sam✤e venue, fracturing several bones in his left foot.
The injury rules him out of the Australian Round immediately and soon after he was out of round two in Portugal as well, where he was replaced by Yamaha WorldSBK test rider YART Yamaha Endurance World Championship ri⛎der Jason O’Halloran.
Rea’s return is still not🦂 confirmed for round three at Assen on 11–13 April, but he says he still counts himself as for💃tunate 🅷that the crash didn’t lead to more severe injuries.
“I have fo💜otage of the crash and it's horrible,” Rea said, .
“What seemed like a small little crash, all of a sudden I felt like I hit a wall or something. My bike had picked up momentum and had started flippꦺing in the air and it came down and hit my foot quite aggres🌳sively.
“If that had been an upper limb or a chest or worse, I count my blessings that it was just a foot but you're also very unlucky as 🌸well because it's fine margins.”
The six-time World Superbike Champion added that the first weeks of his rꦦecovery were difficult both mental🅺ly and in terms of physical pain, while more recently he has been able to get back to some degree of training.
“It was really pain𓃲ful in the first couple of weeks, I have three plates, six screws,” he said.
“It was mentally tough too.
“I've got back to some sort of training regime, feeling good in myself but unfortunately♒ the fracture to my fo𝕴ot was a lot more complicated than I thought.
“Displaced fractures, a ligament graft as well, and with it being a load-bearing part of your body it just needs time to hea🧸l, so I'm doing everything in my power to massage that healing process.”

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