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WorldSBK Phillip Island: ‘I was going to give it a good go’ - Rea

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After winning a race on Saturday, his sixth of the 2022 WorldSBK season, KRT’s Jonathan Rea was really in the mood to have a couple more big shiny cups to take to his nearby house on Phillip Island. It was not to be, and both his front running rides were affected by some degree of misfortune.

A wet front/intermediate dry set-up was the most pragmatic, sensible, get-to-the-end one for the ten-lap Superpole race choice, and both he and his closely following frenemy Toprak Razgatlioglu chose them to lead the race clearly.

But Alvaro Bautista chose a slick/slick educated self-backing gamble, and it paid off. Then in race two, with more rear tyre left to fight Alvaro Bautista with than he had imagined, Rea was waiting for the final laps to pass, but only found an early red flag keeping him in a close second place.

It had also just started to spit with droplets of rain, so Rea is not sure he could have won race two in a fight with Bautista, but he was lining up for one anyway. “You never know, just with the drizzle coming down,” he admitted. “There’s part of me that thought, ‘I need to keep it upright too.’ Maybe he might ride into a mistake with the conditions.

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