Jonathan Rea had an incident with Alex Lowes in the second race of the World Superbike Championship in Assen, which ultimately resulted in his teammate’s retirement.
The current rider for Pata Prometeon Yamaha said, as quoted by the website GPOne.com, that he sees the incident as a racing incident with unintended consequences for those involved:
– I braked late. He came, made a clean pass. But at the clipping point, his bike touched mine. It’s too bad for him since he’s fighting for the title, but also for me, since I already have problems and didn’t need another zero. But I don’t have any hard feelings towards him. That can happen in a race.
The two Britons were teammates for several years, and Rea assured that everything is cleared up: ‘In the parc fermé, he immediately came to apologize. It happened that I also hit him in the past. Hopefully, nothing will happen between us again’.