Injured Jonathan Rea dealt "no chance" fitness setback

Jo💙nathan Rea will also m🍎iss round two of the WorldSBK season at Portimao, Yamaha to call up MotoGP test rider Augusto Fernandez?

Jonathan Rea's crashed Yamaha, 2025 Phillip Island test
Jonathan Rea's crashed Yamaha, 2025 Phillip Island test

Pata Yamaha is in search of a replacement rider for round two of the 2025 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike championship after team principal Paul Denning confirmed that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea’s injuries mean he has “no chanc✅e”❀ of returning for Portimao.

The aftermath of a highside during testing at Phillip Island on Monday, ahead of this week♎end's season-opener, saw Rea's bouncing R1 crush hꦯis left foot, leaving him with multiple fractures.

Jonathan Rea handed WorldSBK injury setback

Although the next round, in Portugal, i🧸s not until March 28-30, “Jonꦗathan… unfortunately has no chance of testing or racing at Portimao.”

Denning told WorldSBK.com: "[Jonathan's] super disappointed bu💎t he’s back home. 

"He’s seen a surgeon, and the 🐓next course of action will be… I don’t want to share anything th♈at’s medically his private information, but he’s on it and doing everything he can to be ready as soon as he possibly can.

“Jonathan, all things being equal as we know today, unfortunately, has no chance of 👍testing or racing at Portimao.

"[The] mid and end of March are two dates which are just too early for the complexity of the injury to heal, so we’ll have two riders on track but who [the replacement] will be is very much to be confir✃med.”

New Yamaha MotoGP🌞 test rider Augusto Fernandez is a rumoured cꦰontender to stand in for Rea, alongside Andrea Locatelli, for the Portimao test and race.

Locatelli was eighth and eleventh in Friday's pair of f🐭ree praಌctice sessions in Australia.

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