Jonathan Rea feels there may be one key space for him and Yamaha to enhance earlier than securing Tremendous Pole at Estoril World SBK.
Rea mentioned he felt good from the beginning on the Portuguese circuit and had optimistic first impressions from the event model of the SC1 entrance tire (the softer of the 2 compounds out there) that Pirelli debuted at Estoril at World Superbike this weekend.
“I felt actually good from the primary lap,” Jonathan Rea mentioned in an interview with WorldSBK.com after FP2 in Estoril.
“I simply introduced the bike completed at Aragon and it felt actually good.
“Then as I used to be attempting to know the totally different tire choices, Pirelli introduced me a brand new entrance tire and I needed to consider it.
“The texture is somewhat totally different between the usual SC1 tires and the brand new improvement tires. To be sincere, the event tires have a really robust really feel. Once I raced with them, they have been quick and steady.”
If there’s one factor Rea hopes to seek out out in a single day, it is efficiency on the sting of the tires.
“Simply put our heads collectively and determine on that tire alternative tonight and attempt to enhance the bike somewhat bit extra. We’re in search of edge grip,” he mentioned.
“That is the important thing space we’ve got to enhance. The bike stops effectively and modifications path effectively within the agile components, so we’re simply in search of somewhat extra grip.”
Rea was capable of preserve Nicolo Brega’s tempo for just a few laps in his first run in FP2 earlier than falling again.
“I believe that’s our tempo, our rhythm proper now,” Ray defined. “I must look somewhat extra.
“To be truthful, Brega was proper in entrance of me in the course of the first a part of the race simulation, so I used to be capable of profit from the slipstream for laps 4, 5, six and 7.
“However as quickly as you discover your rhythm, it is arduous to take care of it with out dropping drag to show one nook, and also you go into tire administration mode, vitality administration mode, attempting to get it accomplished.
“It is arduous to see ‘lap 15’ on the board as a result of there aren’t any factors[available]. It will be an extended session!”
The Northern Irish rider feels each Brega and Toprak Razgatlioglu are “in a unique race” to the remaining, however feels the battle behind them is one he might be part of.
“I have never actually regarded into (the chronological evaluation) of all the opposite riders, so I do not know the place I slot in,” he mentioned.
“It could be good to suppose we might be within the prime 5, however we do not actually know the place we’re. We have not analyzed everybody proper now.”
“Definitely, the 2 guys on the entrance are operating a unique race, Toprak (Razgatlioglu) and Nico (Nicolo Brega), their rhythm is unbelievable.
“However I believe it’s going to be a battle after that, so I need to be part of it.”
