Jonathan Rea Biography - Dream, Believe, Achieve
Discussion
I just finished reading this earlier, and found it really interesting.
OK, so it's obviously a very single-minded view but it does look like he basically "took over" WSB when he went onto a Kawasaki!
Which might be why Tom Sykes is no longer riding a Kawasaki, and Chaz Davies isn't doing too well.
It's just a shame it was written in 2017 when he "only" had 3 titles, but I had the later revision with a chapter about title No.4 - although it may need another chapter if he gets No.5!
And I hope he does!
OK, so it's obviously a very single-minded view but it does look like he basically "took over" WSB when he went onto a Kawasaki!
Which might be why Tom Sykes is no longer riding a Kawasaki, and Chaz Davies isn't doing too well.
It's just a shame it was written in 2017 when he "only" had 3 titles, but I had the later revision with a chapter about title No.4 - although it may need another chapter if he gets No.5!
And I hope he does!
That's a fair point, but if you are doing it as a profession sticking to a formula where you can keep winning doesn't seem like a bad idea.
After all moving up doesn't always work out too well, as Leon Haslam found out!
Shakey Byrne stayed in BSB for years and dominated it, which isn't a bad place to be.
After all moving up doesn't always work out too well, as Leon Haslam found out!
Shakey Byrne stayed in BSB for years and dominated it, which isn't a bad place to be.
I would disagree to some extent.
Haslam had a decent SBK career, and before that a very difficult GP career, where he was up and down like a yo yo. He came back to the UK to learn 2 strokes and never got back there.
Byrne was unlucky in my opinion, clearly a SBK level rider, but not quite the right deals, and obviously not in GP either, that Aprilia or the Roberts KTM were both pups.
But in Essen e, I am sure Shakey could have ridden in SBK for years, but family etc meant he stayed here.
Rea certainly had options to go GP, this was before family I think, but he thought he deserved a factory bike, he was not good enough for that, unproven at GP level, so took himself off to a deal in SBK, I am sure he could easily have been as good as Cal in GP racing, but preferred to take the easier option.
Haslam had a decent SBK career, and before that a very difficult GP career, where he was up and down like a yo yo. He came back to the UK to learn 2 strokes and never got back there.
Byrne was unlucky in my opinion, clearly a SBK level rider, but not quite the right deals, and obviously not in GP either, that Aprilia or the Roberts KTM were both pups.
But in Essen e, I am sure Shakey could have ridden in SBK for years, but family etc meant he stayed here.
Rea certainly had options to go GP, this was before family I think, but he thought he deserved a factory bike, he was not good enough for that, unproven at GP level, so took himself off to a deal in SBK, I am sure he could easily have been as good as Cal in GP racing, but preferred to take the easier option.
they must see the oil on the track from the suzuki as the red flag event rather than J Rea crashing (may be on it) as the cause of the red flag
therefore, Kawasaki win as they didn't cause the red flag event just crashed as a consequence of the oil (may be)
the faces on Yamaha said it all anyway, they knew they hadn't won
therefore, Kawasaki win as they didn't cause the red flag event just crashed as a consequence of the oil (may be)
the faces on Yamaha said it all anyway, they knew they hadn't won
chunder27 said:
Can't quite work out the ruling, but maybe Suzuka got sick of Yamaha winning every year lol!
Think wa16 is right, the red flag wasn't caused by Rea crashing, it's just conincedental that he crashed as they put the red flag out. As long as he was back in the pits within a given time frame then the result goes back one lap if i understand it correctly. If that is the case then he was in the lead on count back.slopes said:
Think wa16 is right, the red flag wasn't caused by Rea crashing, it's just conincedental that he crashed as they put the red flag out. As long as he was back in the pits within a given time frame then the result goes back one lap if i understand it correctly. If that is the case then he was in the lead on count back.
It doesn’t matter whether you cause the red flag or not. The timeframe is generally 5 minutes to get back to pit lane. However, Rea did not make this deadline hence them initially not winning.
That then took a further twist when Kawasaki appealed as the 5 minute rule isn’t actually in the WEC rulebook. They must count back to the last lap completed and this meant Kawasaki were the winners.
Gassing Station | Biker Banter | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff