Jonathan Rea
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Jonathan Rea , MBE (born February 2, 1987 in Larne , Northern Ireland ) is a British motorcycle racer .
Career
Before Rea took part in circuit races, he drove motocross . From 2003 he took part in the British 125 cc championship.
For the 2005 season he rose to the British Superbike Championship . At the end of his first season, Rea finished 16th. He achieved his first pole position and his first podium in the 2006 season in Knockhill . This season he finished fourth overall. The following year he was runner-up behind the Japanese Ryuichi Kiyonari .
Despite an offer from Ducati factory team for the 2008 Superbike World Championship season he moved to the Netherlands Kate team ten, for which he in 2008 in the Supersport World Championship took. There Rea immediately became vice world champion behind his Australian team-mate Andrew Pitt .
Superbike World Championship
He made his first appearance in the Superbike World Championship in the 2008 season . He started for the Honda factory team in the last two races in Portimão . He stayed with the team until the 2014 season .
For the 2015 season, Rea moved to the Kawasaki factory team . His teammate there was Tom Sykes until 2018 . Rea became world champion in 2015 straight away . In the first run at the last event of the 2016 season in Qatar , with a second place, he won his second world title. In the 2017 season there was no change in the driver pairing in the team. Jonathan Rea won seven of the first ten races of the season (including the first five in a row) and finished second out of the other three. After winning the first race in France, he was able to celebrate his third world title in a row. No other driver has done this before. Rea was also superior world champion in 2018 and 2019 and will also be part of the Kawasaki SBK team in 2020. His contract runs until at least 2022.
Motorcycle world championship
In the 2012 season , Rea got the chance from Honda to compete in the MotoGP class of the motorcycle world championship . He replaced the injured Casey Stoner for two races . In Misano he reached eighth and in Aragón ninth.
statistics
title
- 2012: Winner of the 8 Hours of Suzuka with Kousuke Akiyoshi and Tadayuki Okada in a Honda
- 2015 : Superbike world champion on a Kawasaki
- 2016 : Superbike world champion on a Kawasaki
- 2017 : Superbike World Champion on a Kawasaki
- 2018 : Superbike World Champion on a Kawasaki
- 2019 : Superbike world champion on Kawasaki
- 2019: Winner of the 8-hour race in Suzuka with Leon Haslam and Toprak Razgatlıoğlu in a Kawasaki
In the Superbike World Championship
(As of August 10, 2020)
| season | team | motorcycle | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | Nice Race laps | Points | position |
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| 2008 | Hannspree Ten Kate Honda | Honda CBR1000RR | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 14th | 26th |
| 2009 | Hannspree Ten Kate Honda | Honda CBR1000RR | 28 | 2 | 1 | 5 | - | 2 | 315 | 5. |
| 2010 | Hannspree Ten Kate Honda | Honda CBR1000RR | 23 | 4th | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 292 | 4th |
| 2011 | Castrol Honda | Honda CBR1000RR | 18th | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | - | 170 | 9. |
| 2012 | Honda World Superbike Team | Honda CBR1000RR | 27 | 2 | 4th | - | - | - | 278.5 | 5. |
| 2013 | Pata Honda World Superbike | Honda CBR1000RR | 18th | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 176 | 9. |
| 2014 | Pata Honda World Superbike | Honda CBR1000RR | 24 | 4th | 1 | 4th | 1 | 2 | 334 | 3. |
| 2015 | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki ZX-10R | 26th | 14th | 7th | 2 | 2 | 11 | 548 | World Champion |
| 2016 | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki ZX-10R | 26th | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 6th | 498 | World Champion |
| 2017 | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki ZX-10R | 26th | 16 | 7th | 1 | 6th | 14th | 556 | World Champion |
| 2018 | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki ZX-10R | 25th | 17th | 4th | 1 | 2 | 14th | 545 | World Champion |
| 2019 | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki ZX-10R | 37 | 17th | 16 | 1 | 7th | 12 | 663 | World Champion |
| 2020 | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki ZX-10R | 9 | 5 | 2 | - | 1 | 6th | 74 | 1. |
| total | 289 | 93 | 58 | 24 | 24 | 72 | 4525.5 | 5 world titles | ||
References
Web links
- Jonathan Rea on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship
- Jonathan Rea on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ SPEEDWEEK profile Jonathan Rea. In: speedweek.com. Retrieved May 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Record man Jonathan Rea: Three Superbike titles in a row! In: motorsport-total.com. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Rea, Jonathan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British motorcycle racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd February 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Larne , Northern Ireland |