Jonathan Rea has reacted to his unusual first win o♏n a Yamaha, which came on a dꦬirt track.

Rea was among the big names to enter a charity dirt bike rac🤪e on Sunday at the EICMA trade show in🌊 Milan.

Riding a YZ450F, modified for a d💝irt track, Rea beat contempo☂rary riders (plus Ryan Vickers, who was third) to claim the win.

The fo꧃rmat was a series of head-to-head time trials.

Rea beat fellow World Superbike Championship rid🔥er Vierge first, then Pata Yamaha teammate Andrea Locatelli.

He beat Vickers, who will join WSBK in 2025, in the semi-final then&nbs𒅌p;World Supermoto star Elia Sammartin in the finꩵal.

“I didn’t really know w🔯hat to expect heading into the races as I haven’t ridden a lot of flat track before but I knew I was going to give it a good go,” Rea said.

“I felt good from the first practice, Yamaha Mo🐽tor Italia had put together a really awesome GYTR-kitted YZ450F for us and the track was fairly easy to learn, ev🦂en if it did take a couple of crashes!

“I felt really good in my first race against Vie𓃲rge, although from the first laps I was gettin🌠g really bad arm pump like I’ve not had in years so I knew it was going to be a challenge.

“I was actually really nervous coming h💛ere to ride, as anything can happen at these end of season things but my racing brain took over and each race I did I got faster!

“The final was really close and Sammartin was ri꧃ding really well and made no mistakes, so I was pretty pleased to cross the line to take the win, to be on top of the podium was really nice!”

It wꦗas his first win of any kind since swapping Kawasaki for Yamaha.