Jonathan Rea has hailed his 'crazy' victory in the second World Superbike race at Donington Park, which the Honda star won in controversial꧟ circumstances.

Rea was battling with BMW riders Leon Haslam and Marco Melandri when the trio were involved in a𒉰 last corner 🍸pile-up that saw both Haslam and Melandri crash out with the chequered flag in sight.

Haslam was leading when Melandrﷺi soared past before running wide at Goddardꦏs.

However, as Haslam attempted to tu🃏rn in, Rea was coming up the inside as he pursued the gap opened up by Melandri.

There was contact and Haslam went down, sliding into the path of Melandri as both ri꧙ders were eliminated from the race, denying BMW the chance of another 1-2 after Me𝔉landri took the honours in race one from his British team-mate.

Rea managed to remain upright on his CBR1000RR and claimed his second success of the season and his first World Superbike podium at the 25-year-old Northern Irela🔥nd rider's adopted 'home' circuit.

The U𝓰lsterman had earlier finished fourth in the first race.

Rea said: "It's nice to win and, in that second race, everybody wanted to win so bad. It was a crazy race and I made it hard work because I dropped off the group again in the middle stage and then, when I♈ caught the group, I made a big mistake and ran wide at the last corner.

"To catch up wit꧋h five laps to go and ma🦋ke up some places and then cap it off with the win was unbelievable," he added.

"I was quite happy with the fourth in race one as well - the guys gave me a great b♕ike and Chris [Pike - crew chief] and his team were on it all weekend."

Rea paid tribute to the British fans at Donington, who showed their🐬 appreciation on the slowing dow🀅n lap.

"It's nice to come here and get a good result because i𝐆t's never happened in the past with Superbike," he said.

"I got on the podium in Supersport but this is nice for the British fans and there we꧑re quite a lot of guys out there.

"On the s🅠lowing-down lap everyone 🦩was clapping and it's nice to have a British winner at a British round."