Seven up
BY THE END of play at the first-ever WorldSBK round at the Montmelo circuit, the series reached a total of seven different race winners so far in 2020.
Jonathan Rea took three important steps toward a possible sixth crown, even if they were faltering at times due to technical or other issues. All things are relative, they say, and that is certainly true of Rea’s race weekend at a track that’s not really any more than a few hundred metres from KRT’s workshops and offices.
His weekend delivered a Superpole win, making him the third most successful rider ever in these terms, and then he took a race one win from his big championship rival, Scott Redding (Aruba. it Ducati). It was win number nine this year for him, and 97 in his career,
