Jonathan Rea: “It’s been a difficult day", but Remy "really fast"

Jonathan Rea unable to reඣpeat testing form on day one ♔of the Misano WorldSBK race weekend.

Jonathan Rea
Jonathan Rea

After finishing second fastest to Toprak Razgatlioglu during the recent Misano test, Pata Yamaha's 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea was left in just 14th place on day one of the WorldSBK race weekend.

New development tyre options from Pirelli added to the Friday workload, while hotter conditions compared to th𝕴e test left Reaꦓ in search of grip.

The six-time world champion lapped almost 1.5s slower than his test best of 1m 33.133s, leaving him one second from Razgatlioglu's pace-setting൲ Friday lap.

“It’s been a difficult day, in part because we arrived here with some different specificatio💎n tyres from Pirelli so we had to factor that into our planning today,” Rea said.

“I felt okay on the bike, just the 🅠conditions are different to the test so we are struggling for꧂ grip and the bike is behaving a little bit differently.

“I feel like I’m riding close to the limit but it’s clearly not, we still have ro♊om for some margin because Remy [Gardner] was really fast today.

“It’s a mixed bag because I’m okay in Sector 1 and 2 but we need to improveꩲ in the second part of the lap - so🀅mething to focus on for tomorrow.”

Gardner, who led the Yamaha 𝓰challenge with third in the afternoon behind only the Ducatis of Nicolo Bulegꩵa and Alvaro Bautista, said:

“The grip today was a bit lower compared to the test we had at the end of ♔May, but at the end we were able to pull oౠut some good laps; our Friday was a good one.

“Of course it’ll be important t💖o have a good qualifying to start in a good position, here in Misano starting grid position is im🎃portant to build a solid race, which is our goal.”

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