Jonathan Rea has 📖reflected on his historic fourth consecutive World Superbike title and pinpointed the key elements fuelling his unrelenting run in the series.

The Kawasaki rider stormed to his seventh straight race victory, and 13^th of the season, to seal a fourth World Superbike riders’ championship and draw level with Carl Fogarty on theꦐ all-time title list.

Rea clinched the 2018 crown in a typical domina꧅nt fashion in the opening Magny-Cours race, the same race he secured last year’s title triumph, overtaking team-mate Tom Sykes at the start of lap two before𓂃 trading lap records with his fellow factory Kawasaki rider before edging out a comfortable time gap to ease off to victory.

Rea, who takes the title with five races to spare, fꦦelt his unstoppable World Superbike championship run was ‘always dreamed of’ he concedes it never looked realistic when he first join🅺ed Kawasaki in 2015.

“Whilst I always dreamed of being in this position I never thought it 💧to was realistic,” Rea said. “It is absolutely incredible to win four.  Sometimes even after winning back-to-back championships, or three in a row I have to say it is hard to find words to speak about what you have just done

“It is like we are riding the wave now with our Ninja ZX-10RR, with incred💧ible people around me.

“It was so fitting that Guim, the team manager, allowed 📖my dad to come and collect the team award on the podium.

“I got really choked up when he came up because it just reminded me of growing up in Northern 🙈Ireland and travelling all round with my parents to motocross races. Then getting my first pro ride in roadracing, and my parents lᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚetting go. But they have always had my back. So that was super-nice.”

Rea als⭕o paid huge credit to his Kawasaki team built around him, headed by his crew chief Pere Riba, for providing him with the package to dominate the past four years and ꦕwrite his own history in World Superbikes.

“Pere and my team gave me a great bike this weekend and the target was clear,” he said. “We have been in this poܫsition before, so there was no kind of nervousness or anxiety around, it was really posit🍸ive energy.

“On track Fabien [Foret] has been analysing what we can do ꦬand the team worked s🗹uper-hard all weekend to get the best out of the bike when the tyre was dropping. In the hot conditions, at the end of the race, that is what we worked towards today.

“The feeling with the bike just🐽 kept coming a💦nd I was able to knock it off on the last lap and take it all in. I was aware of the crowd there and what I was about to achieve so that last lap there I thought about winning the championship. It is incredible, and incredible journey.”