Lucky escape for Jonathan Rea: “It felt like I was tumbling forever”

Jonathan Rea: “It was just a blur realꦅly – it was that fast. I went down and it felt like I was tumbling forever.”

Jonathan Rea, 2024 Misano WorldSBK
Jonathan Rea, 2024 Misano WorldSBK

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea suffered another punishing day on the Yamaha R1 at Misano on Saturday, qualifying just 15th and then suffering a massive accident on the opening lap of R๊ace 1.

The Ulsterman susta𒁏ined left wrist and hand contusions but fortunately escaped serious injury. However, he will be reassessed before warm-up tomorrow morning.

“Really frustrated, because my race ended before it had begun,” said the six-time 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:WorldSBK champion. “It was a knock-on effect from a bad qualifying, being in the middle of a mess in the🐼 first corners.

“Then when things started stringing out in the fast section, I got quite close to Aegerter in the fast Turn 12 and just opened up the line a little bit to create some space but ran over the shoulder of the corner and to be honest from thaꦍt moment, it was just a blur really – it was that fast.

“I went down and it felt like I was tumbling forever, but I’m so thankful to have good protection from Alpinestars and Arai – they kept me safe today, apart from a few bumps and bruises, but I shoulꦕd be good for tomorrow.

“The target is to try to get some good feeling tomorrow, make a good start ꦉand start finding some confidence.”

Team boss Paul Denning added: "Qualifying was a disaster for Jonathan...﷽ We weren’t a million miles away but the position was disap𒅌pointing.

“He felt better on a revised setti൩ng on the sighting laps, but unfortunately a huge crash on Lap 1 at Turn 13 means that we don’t have any more information and we didn’t get a chance to build the flow and confidenc🐻e going into tomorrow – but the most critical point is that Jonathan is more or less ok.

“We’ll keep our heads, keep positive and do everything we can🌞 to help JR come back to his true level and climb out of this difficult moment as a team.”

Rea’s Pata team-mate Andrea Locatelli finished as the top R1 rider in fourth place after early race lಞeader Remy Gardner faded to sixth place.

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