‘We need to improve our outright speed’ - work to be done for Jonathan Rea and Yamaha

Jonathan Rea says day two of the Portimao test left him ‘no♚t completely satisfied’, after encountering issues with his R1.

Jonathan Rea
Jonathan Rea

The six-time WorldSBK champion secured a seventh place finish, but after an impressive day one, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea wa🍬s unable to carry that momentum into the final day.

A technical issue at tur♊n one meant Rea spent part of the day with just one bike at his disposal, but he wasn’t ‘completely satisfied’ with the results. 

Speaking to Wo🌱rldSBK.com, Rea said: “The guys need to check exactly what happened but I just came to a halt at Turn 1; we parked that bike for the day, so lost a little bit of time with what happened and then obviously, we only had one bike for the rest of the test.

“We focussed on our workload again, confir🃏ming the bike and I’m not completely🐭 satisfied with the feeling out there.

“I did a longer run t🐼o ꧑understand the tyre drop but I got faster and faster during that, so there’s some positives.

“I think our outright speed, we need to improve a little bit𒁃. I wasn’t completely comfortable so we’re still working to find that optimum setup for that style; it’s our first time here at Portimao together and the bike was behaving a little bit differently to what I was used t🎶o do.

“There’s work to do 𝓀for everybody but I am ꧒happy, confident and relieved that testing has finished.”

Rea, who is still adapting to the R1 following nine seasons with𒁃 Kawasaki, was again busy testing various new parts for th𓄧e Japanese manufacturer.

That included suspe♊nsion, chassis and what he described as ‘normal test items’.

While his feeling aboard the R1 wasn’t the best on day two, the parts teꦰsted worked well, accordi𒈔ng to Rea

“We tested some suspension ideas, some chassi🅺s parts and normal test items,” said the Northern Irishman. “We experimented with geometry and setup, just running through the ideas we had to improve our feeling.

“I 🦩haven’t done a full weekend at Portimao on the Yamaha so I was starting from a Jerez-based setup and we ended up somewher🍸e similar to that.

“We’re in the ballpark but I think we can fix that right now and co🅘ntinue working on that in Phillip Island.

“The items were positive, step-by-step we are trying to understand how the tyre behaves, an area we are trying to focus right now, to give me some traction as I pick up th🐷e bike.

“Some ideas and parts were better, some were the same and not too 🗹different. We’ll keep working with that and see what we can do in Australia.”

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