Rea Completes Two-Day Motorland Aragon Test

Jonathan Rea completed two days of testing today with Kawasaki Racing Team at Motorland Aragon in north-eastern Spain.  Fresh from his triple race win at Autodromo do Algarve in Portugal last weekend, Jonathan used the test to further refine the set up of his Ninja ZX-10RR race machine before the next round of the FIM Superbike World Championship at the Aragon circuit at the end of the month.

The weather conditions in Aragon were similarly as hot as the recent races at Jerez and Portimao. However, the onset of rain from a nearby thunderstorm, within the last hour of the second day, brought the test to a slightly premature end.  Jonathan had set the fastest time on the first day and whilst he bettered that on the second day he ended up third on the time sheets 0.3s off the 1m 49.807 lap time posted by Kawasaki team-mate Alex Lowes.

The WorldSBK championship returns to competitive action with a double-header of events at Motorland Aragon over the weekends of August 29-30 and September 5-6.

Jonathan Rea, stated: “It has been a really positive two days, first to come here and do a lot of jobs that we would have to do in the race weekend – like understand the tyre options, defining the base set-up and also working on tyre set-up. I feel we are quite sure of our base set-up now to start on Friday morning of the first race weekend. We are also just familiarising ourselves with this track. We had some new chassis items here, to try and get some more front confidence. We still need to confirm them in the winter tests, as that work was more about 2021. All in all, we worked with everything we wanted to test and I felt good with the track straightaway. I understood the bike and we worked in a good way. Our effort was very constant, my lap times were constant and I feel we can leave here in a positive frame of mind.”