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HANNspree ten Kate Honda >> Frustrating end to Rea’s World Superbike season

October 03 2010

Ten Kate Racing - Nieuwsbrief

Jonathan Rea was forced to sit out today’s second and final World Superbike race of 2010 at Magny-Cours in France after injuries sustained in a warm-up crash exacerbated those from last weekend at Imola in Italy. Rea had confounded many with a steely determination to contest this weekend’s final races at the 4.411km Magny-Cours circuit. A specially-constructed cast supported his fractured wrist, while twice-daily strapping by the Clinica Mobile, protected his injured shoulder. However, an innocuous clamp on a water hose broke on his second lap of morning warm-up, spraying water on to the rear wheel of his Honda CBR1000RR which resulted in a high-speed crash. Rea sustained additional injuries to his right shoulder and gluteus-maximus.

The gutsy 23-year-old from Northern Ireland was determined to fight to hold on to his third place in the championship standings and finished in 12th place in the opening 23-lap race. But the effort exhausted Rea both physically and mentally, and a joint decision with his team saw him sitting out race two.

His Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team-mate, Max Neukirchner, brought his own Fireblade home in the points in both outings, but 13th and 12th places were not the way we had wanted to finish his season with the team.

Jonathan Rea – 12th and DNS
It’s not been a great weekend in Magny-Cours but my championship was pretty much over at Imola with the injuries I picked up there. My surgeon back in Manchester said it would be a pretty dumb idea to ride here but that it would cause no more injuries, only pain. The plastic cast they made helped to get me out there and I had quite good pace, but not for more than three or four laps. Then we had a bit of a freak accident in warm-up this morning with one of the hose clamps on the water pump coming loose and putting water all over the back tyre. It caused me to ha ve a big high-side and I landed on my ass, which really hurt. It wasn’t so bad and they patched me up pretty well but race one just drained all my energy and concentration and I was in quite a lot of pain. The difference between third and fourth was not that much and I know this is a winning team and I’m a winning rider. I learned a lot last year, which I brought to this, and a lot this year which I’ll take into next. I’m going under the knife on Tuesday to start the repairs, so I just want to thank all the team and my fans who have made me strong.

Max Neukirchner – 13th and 12th
Of course today I finished in the points twice, but like most of this season I didn’t really find a good feeling with the bike. In the beginning there were some problems with grip levels and some electronics problems in race one. Of course, it has been a difficult season for all of us and I hope next season will go b etter. I’d like to say thank you to all the guys in the team, who are great. The relationship has always been really good, but the bike and I didn’t really work together very well.

Ronald ten Kate – team manager
With the injuries he sustained at Imola, we always knew Jonathan was going to have a difficult weekend. I was all going relatively OK until warm-up this mornig when he had quite a big off which was not his mistake. Unfortunately a water-hose clamp snapped and put water on the tyre and in the crash, Jonathan hurt his right side, which meant there was no side of him without pain. Even so, he was determined to try to defend third place in the championship in race one, but for race two we decided jointly to pull him out. He has gone above and beyond the call of duty this weekend and put more into it than any rider could. It’s not good to lose third in the championship but from the next race on, the a im is not third but first. Max couldn’t end the season in the way he and the team would have hoped. We have had a tough season together but the co-operation between us has been such that it never led to any frustration. We’ve all kept our heads and kept working together and we’d like to wish him all the best for next season and beyond

2010 World Superbike championship – final round
Magny-Cours, France (4.411km – 23 laps) – results
Race one:
1. Cal Crutchlow (GBR) Yamaha 38m15.586s
2. Leon Haslam (GBR) Suzuki +3.779s
3. Carlos Checa (ESP) Ducati +4.261s
4. Max Biaggi (ITA) Aprilia +4.416s
12. Jonathan Rea (GBR) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda +35.608s
13. Max Neukirchner (GER) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda +39.929s

Race two:
1. Max Biaggi (ITA) Aprilia 38m11.343s
2. Cal Crutchlow (GBR) Yamaha +0.087s
3. Michel Fabrizio (ITA) Ducati +3.715s
4. Sylvain Guintoli (FRA_Suzuki + 4.004s
12. Max Neukirchner (GER) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda +44.634s

Final championship points: 1 Biaggi 451, 2 Haslam 376, 3 Checa 297, 4 Rea 292, 5 Crutchlow 284, 6 Haga 258, 7 Guintoli 197, 8 Fabrizio 195, 9 James Toseland 187, 10 Shane Byrne 169.

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