WorldSBK: Jonathan Rea admits there's one rider that could leave him ‘intimidated’ in a last-lap battle...
That rider is the same man that managed to snap Rea’s streak of six consecutive WorldSBK titles in 2021, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu.
Since 🥂Razgatlioglu moved to Yamaha, battles between Razgatlioglu and Rea have been consistent, fierce and arguably the best WorldSBK has ever🌄 witnessed.
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Not quite able to challenge Rea for the title during his first season with Yamaha, Razgatlioglu did just that in 2021 as he claim𝔍ed the world championsh🧸ip by 13 points.
Razgatlioglu then got the better of Rea again in 2022, this time by a margin of 27 points, although it was 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista who came away with the title.
Speaking after last season, Rea was asked who the ‘dirtiest’ rider on the grid is, to which he said: "I couldn’t even name one. Dirtiest is the wrong word because it implies negative, but most aggressive - if you ask me who is the guy that I fear most on the last-lap and𓆏 had +0 [on my board] then I wouldn’t want Toprak.
"He’s just going to come through somewhere if it’s possible or n🎀ot possible. Toprak would be the guജy that I’m intimidated by on the last-lap."
While still a brillian🅷t season by most riders’ standards, Rea struggled to be competitive at every round as Razgatlioglu and Bautista won more than double the amount of ra🍰ces Rea did.
Five of Rea’s six wins came during the opening three ro👍unds, and although two of those came at Assen before managing the same result in Estoril, it was the season-opening race that Rea concluded as his best moment of 2022.
"Best moment of the season was winni𝓡ng in Aragon. It’s always nice to start the year off with a win," added Rea.
On the contrary, Rea๊ felt his worst moment was crashing out of second place in Magny-Cours, which was a weekend that💫 began to spell disaster for his title hopes.
Rea said: "Crashing out of Race 1 in Magny-C♐ours [was the worst moment]. It was so frustrating because I had a really good pace in Magny-Cours and to end the race like that was a disaster."
