Jonathan Rea’s difficulties with Pata Prometeon Yamaha continue. The six-time world champion can’t find a way to fight for the Superbike World Championship places with his new team.
This weekend at Misano, the Briton suffered a heavy crash in the first race, then finished eighth in the Superpole race and tenth in the second race. His teammate, Andrea Locatelli, managed three top-five finishes.
The Briton didn’t hide his frustration at this moment, telling the championship website: ‘I still need to work on making this bike mine. All the requests and trying to work to a good set-up for me it’s just not coming. It’s really frustrating from my side because I feel since I’ve jumped on the bike we’ve made baby steps. I feel that I need to have something I can really fight with’.
Even if he is frustrated, Rea tries do keep some optimism, but admitted that there seems to be no end in sight to his struggles: ‘It’s really frustrating, we need to put our heads together. […]. Sometimes it’s really hard to see where the way forward is coming. I try to put always a positive spin on things, that the light is at the end of the tunnel. But it’s really hard to see right now’.