The long-awaited return to racing for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea at the Italian WorldSBK🍰 waꦇs a “tougher weekend than I expected,” according to the Northern Irish rider.

This weekend’s WorldSBK Italian Round was Rea’s first 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike event sin𒁃ce the Spanish Round at Jerez last October, the six-time champion having suffered multiple fractures in his left foot while testing at Phillip Island in February.

The two-and-a-half months wit🐭hout riding a WorldSBK machine had not only allowed Rea’s foot to heal but also for his race fitness to erode.

That, combined with a relatively unfamiliar Yamaha R1 with the new Superconcession cha🥀ssis, resulted🦹 in a weekend without points for Rea, who was ultimately pleased to have been able to ride after such an amount of time off and to complete the weekend.

“It’s been a tougher weekend than I expected, but I knew we had to stജart somewhere,” Rea said after Race 2 at Cremona.

“The target of the weekend in my own mind was just to try and co♋mmit to racing, get passed fit and do my best to complete 🧸all three races with no mistakes.

“We comಌpleted that target, of course I wasn’t as competitive as I wanted to be, but considering I was only fully weight-bearing and ꦅwalking without my air boot three weeks ago I can accept that.”

Rea said that his physical struggles were more in his upper body than in the foot he🔯 injured in Australia.

“Coming back at Cremona, a track I didn’t race at last year and also super physical, I suffered more in my upper body than I did in my foot to be honest, because I was c꧅ompensating quite a lot riding with my arms instead of my legs,” he explained.

“Even though the bike didn’t feel perfect, the team has done everything to try to make me more comfortable a😼nd encourage me through this difficult weekend.

“I have no doubt better days are coming! It was always going to be a process whether I came back here or came back in Most, so [this isꦆ] ‘weekend one’ and hopefully we can get on a roll forward from this point.”

Locatelli: “A really difficult weekend for us

While 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Locatelli was able to finish in the topꩵ-10 in both Sunday races following his crash in Race 1, the Italian was left to conclude that his home round had been “really difficꦫult”.

“It was a really difficult weekend for ꧅us, unfortunately we did not take any good results here in Cremona,” he said.

“We were fighting to start from further back on the grid – but it does not matter about this because also when I made a great start in Race 🍌2 it was difficult to stay there.

“We need to look🅺 at what happened and how to improve because I was fighting a lot with a big𝔍, big vibration this morning and all Sunday.

“Now, I am looking forward and don’t thinꦇk too much about the missed opportunity – it was a big shame to not be faster, after the good events like Portimao and Assen, I was expecting that also here we could be fast.

“Sometimes in the racing life this happens!”