The six-time Wo🍃rldSBK champion is facing an uphill battle heading into today’s qualifying and Race 1, after several issues plag😼ued him en route to a disappointing P9. 

Rea made🙈 a slow start to FP1 and was as low 𒆙down as 14th before gradually making his way up the leaderboard. 

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However, p𝐆ro🅺gress soon stopped once he broke into the top ten, with acceleration being one of the main issues.

Asked about the improvements that needed to be made for today's first of three WorldSBK races, Rea sa𝕴id: "Generally, all over but for me, I need to finish the corners a bit better, and for the acceleration areas, the bi𝄹ke needs to accelerate more. 

"I’m really struggling in sector two which is where the acceleration towards Quercia and the exit before Tromonღto. In the last sector, I’m not so good and I don’t understand why. 

"We need to go over the data compared to previous years🅘 becaus꧑e I felt better there last year. Honestly, I haven’t looked through the classification so, I don’t know the pace of the others. 

"The goal is always the podium and try to be as close to it as possible and pick up good points for my championship and try to im⛎prove the bike." 

Unlike his rivals who tes🏅ted at Misano recently, Rea, who himself completed one day of private testing alongside te🅺ammate Alex Lowes at Jerez less than two weeks ago, was also trying to get up to speed which slowed him down at the beginning of the day.

But with that said, Rea was not o๊verly worried as his current level of performance 𒀰was where he expected to be. 

Rea added: "It was a little bit difficult getting up to speed after missing the test a few weeks ago, wh🐬ich meant that we had to find the way a bit this morning. In the afternoon, we focused on a long run to see how the tyre would be for the race. 

"We had some issues in FP1 which took time to understand why we wer🥂en𝓀’t performing so well, but once we understood that, we were able to work away. 

"These are things we could’ve ironed out at the test to really understand. It was a learning day. For da✨y one, we are where we expected to be."