Mixed day for Jonathan Rea at Aragon in the Superbike World Championship with a podium and a fourth place. The british from Kawasaki spoke of some situations regarding both races, thinking about the tyre selection and how not everything went that well…
The british began by speaking of how he didn’t change things that much from saturday to sunday regarding to the settings, while also making some considerations towards the tyre selection: ‘The bike set-up wasn’t so much different this sunday so we have to analyse what has happened in Race Two. I am just guessing right now but I think with the SCX-A rear tyre maybe we were over the temperature threshold. I think the standard SCX was probably the better choice. If I had to do the race again I would change that. But in these temperatures I also struggled with the front tyre in turning, stability etc’.
He then spoke about the first race of the day and how the bike worked as expected… but not everything went as well: ‘I eventually started to check my pitboard with Bassani behind and tried to keep him at bay. The Superpole race before then was incredible. The bike worked amazingly well. I need to take the positives away from the weekend because it’s no mean feat to just turn up here and be on the podium. I was really disappointed in the Superpole Race because I did everything I could. The amount of time we lost in one small sector is incredible. So, I was disappointed after I did all that good work during what I saw was a good opportunity for us’.
And also shed his thoughts on the second race, which didn’t go accordingly to what he wanted: ‘Race Two was a bit of a curve ball. I didn’t see it coming that we would struggle that badly. But, overall, it’s a been a positive weekend’.