Successful Two-Day Test For Rea In Aragon

Jonathan Rea and Kawasaki Racing Team successfully completed their final pre-season WorldSBK test session at Motorland Aragon on Wednesday, ahead of round one of the 2021 FIM Superbike World Championship, which start in two weeks time, at the same circuit.

Rea and his team worked on refining the final set up for the start of the season, completing two full race simulations over the two days and confirming the base set-up they will start the 2021 season with on the new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR. On day two of the test Rea set a blistering best lap time of 1’48.528, the quickest of this test.

The first round of the FIM Superbike World Championship will be held at Motorland Aragon from 21-23 May. It will be followed one week later by the second round at Estoril in Portugal, between 28-30 May.

Jonathan Rea said: “I am super-content with this test. We managed to tick everything off the list we had, which we prioritised with race simulations. I did one each day, at the time of day the races will be held - in fact we left them a little bit later, to the peak of the temperatures at 3pm. We expect the race weekend will be a little bit hotter than it is now. We have a lot of good information about those. I used both rear tyre options, so we have a lot of good information. Step-by-step we worked some more on my riding, some electronic items, but, more so myself, getting a rhythm and understanding how the tyre behaves over a lot of laps and setting up electronic strategies to utilise during the race. I want to thank the guys because they rebuilt the bike completely as we have been trying to understand where there has been some issues coming. So to rule everything out they have built me a completely new bike and they worked tirelessly. Kudos to all the team staff for this whole winter test programme. It has been very busy but I am looking forward to going to round one in a few weeks’ time and seeing where we stack up.”