Top Ten For Rea On Sunday In Most.

Jonathan Rea finish eighth and sixth in today’s FIM Superbike World Championship races at Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic.

Rea started the Tissot Superpole race 15th on the grid, based on Saturday’s qualifying times, with the target of achieving a stronger grid position for WorldSBK race 2. He finished eighth and started the 22 lap race to in the middle of the third row. 

The #65 rider fought hard as race two developed with thrilling passes on Xavi Vierge, Iker Lecuona and finally Michael Ruben Rinaldi to take sixth overall. Understandably, both the six-time WorldSBK Champion and his own crew are hungry for more and now target the next round at Autódromo Internacional do Algarve to take another step.  

Jonathan Rea – SPRC: P8 / Race 2: P6

“The trajectory of the weekend was a positive one – from qualifying P15 to achieve 10th, eighth and sixth positions is somewhat positive but it really highlighted the importance of qualifying because track position is everything. My pace in all races was a little bit better than those around me, and even to be a bit more in front could have been achievable this weekend – but just trying to get though on traffic was really difficult. I made a really good start in Race 2 after giving myself half a chance from the third row of the grid, but someone came through over the top in T2 and it killed my drive into Turn 3 – but never give up on the race, always! The podium group was a bit faster, but once I settled into my rhythm I was able to dispose of the Hondas pretty quick and Rinaldi was the next target. I just kept my head down lap after lap and caught him. We had a bit of tyre left, I could see the pace of the front guys was dropping but they were too far ahead. It ended on a positive note – thanks to the team for all their hard work this weekend, I didn’t make my own job or the team’s job easy this weekend with the crash in Superpole! We will come back and try to do a better job in Portimão.”