Jonathan Rea vows to rebound from “confidence issues” on woeful Yamaha debut
"We got🦩 rid of some of the confidence iss⛄ues I had," Jonathan Rea insists

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea is targeting a more productive World Sup✃erbikes round with new team Yamah🐎a this weekend.
The second round of the 2024 WorldSBK champ𒆙ionship at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya comes after Rea was able to enjoy two beneficial days of testing his Yamaha.
Previously, at Phillip Island, his post-Kawasaki era got off to 🎀a dreadful start with a big crash in Race 2 at the opening round.
Six-time cham✅pion Rea said in Barcelona: “It’s a nice track and we have an added benefit of testing here last week, so we already feel ahead of the race weekend.
“We got rid of some of the confidence issues I had 𒊎in Australia and drew a line under some of the issues from a setu🔯p point of view.
“After the crash, I’m fully recovered. WorldSBK is so competitive, not just for the front positions but if you have a tough weꦰek꧒end, you’re going to be down the order by quite some way.
“We still need to improve the tyre consumption 🥂although the most positive thing is we did the race simulation and we know how the bike behaves.
“We know the last couple of laps here can be cri🥀tical. I think a podium is a realistic target but we’re still some way off targe𓆏ting a race win, but that battle for the podium is hotly contested so I expect it to be a lot of guys, but I feel like one of the guys that can fight for that.”
Yamaha teammate Andrea Locatelli came second ꦿto Nicolo Bulega in Race 1 at Phillip Island.
He🐻 impressively overtook Andrౠea Iannone, Alex Lowes and Toprak Razgatlioglu to claim an impressive P2 finish.
Locatelli said ahead of this weekend’s second round in Barcelona: “I’m feeling bett꧃er, after the test I felt pain in my left knee, buꦡt I improved this week.
“It’s important to get back on track because the feeling at and after Phillip Island was amazingꩲ.
“This is another track, but w🦩e can be fast. Never say never because the potential we have is quite high.
“We need to take an opportunity. This track is tricky at the end of the ra⛎ce with the tyre.
“I think we can stay in front during the race. At Phillip Island, weꦑ were close to fighting for victory but lost that chance.
“We are really close and have many races this yea𓆏r, so the target is to bring home a lot of podiums and, at the same time, is trying to fight for the win. I believe in it. We showed our potential.
“I hope it comes sooner rather tha༺n later but we will have an opportunity!”

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