Jonathan Rea

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Jonathan Rea
File:Jonathon Rea August 2008.jpg
Jonathan Rea. August 2008
Nationality United Kingdom British
Born (1987-02-02) 2 February 1987 (age 37)
Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. UK
Current team Kawasaki Racing Team
Bike number 1
Website jonathan-rea.com
Motorcycle racing career statistics
MotoGP World Championship
Active years 2012
Manufacturers Honda
2012 Championship position 21st (17 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
2 0 0 0 0 17
Superbike World Championship
Active years 2008-2016
Manufacturers Honda 2008-2014
Kawasaki Racing Team 2015–
Championships 1 (2015)
2015 Championship position 1st (528 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
174 34 75 6 25 2308.5
Supersport World Championship
Active years 2008
Manufacturers Honda
Championships 0
2008 Championship position 2nd (164 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
12 3 6 0 0 164

Jonathan Rea (born 2 February 1987 in Larne, Northern Ireland)[1] is a professional motorcycle racer, currently competing in the Superbike World Championship where he was crowned champion in 2015. Previously he was runner-up in the Supersport World Championship for the Ten Kate Honda team in 2008, and runner-up in the British Superbike Championship in 2007 for the HM Plant Honda team. He was named Irish Motorcyclist of the Year in 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2016.[2][3]

Early years

For much of his career he has been backed by Red Bull. Rea was British 60cc motocross runner up in 1997, before moving up through the motocross classes. He was not originally keen to switch to circuit racing as he considered it to be boring, but he was persuaded to by friends Michael and Eugene Laverty, contesting the 2003 British 125cc Championship. His 2004 season was interrupted by a crash at Knockhill.

In 2005 Red Bull set up a British Superbike ride for him on a factory-spec Honda Fireblade. He showed his potential by snatching a pole position from the established names, and finished 16th in the series despite missing two races, at Snetterton after a heavy testing crash, and at Oulton Park after the death of a junior team-mate in the previous event.

British Superbike Championship

He started the 2006 season strongly, lying sixth in the championship after five meetings. At Oulton Park he finished 3rd in race two, before being demoted to fourth as he was deemed to have gained a place form Shane Byrne on the last lap illegally, although he claimed that he crossed the infield grass as he was squeezed out of road. He qualified fifth at Mondello Park before heavy rain forced the cancellation of the races, and claimed that he had been on race tyres, rather than special soft qualifying compounds. He impressed at Mallory Park too, qualifying on the front row and running second until high-siding in race one, despite having no race engineer for the weekend. At Knockhill he took pole position, and followed a fourth in race one with his first career podium in race two, passing Leon Haslam for second with two laps to go. He ultimately took fourth in the championship, ahead of the factory Honda of Karl Harris.

He took Harris' factory ride for 2007, alongside reigning champion Ryuichi Kiyonari of Japan. After four-second places, he finally took his first win in the second race at Mondello Park,[4] after dominating wet practice but struggling in the dry first race. A double victory at Knockhill followed,[5] taking him to within nine points of Kiyonari at the top of the standings – retaining this position after Oulton Park in which each HM Plant Honda rider won once and crashed once. He ultimately finished as the series runner-up, 26 points behind Kiyonari and 20 ahead of Leon Haslam.

Also in 2007, he raced with Kiyonari and won a three-hour endurance race, and the pair was then entered for the Suzuka 8-Hour race on a factory Honda machine. Plans for him to contest the British MotoGP round on a Team Roberts bike were scrapped in favour of extra Suzuka preparation.[6] He attended the 2007 World Superbike round at Brands Hatch, as he began to explore international options.[7]

World Supersport

In September 2007 he signed a three-year progressive deal with Ten Kate Honda to ride in the Supersport World Championship for the 2008 season, and the Superbike World Championship for the 2009 and 2010 seasons.[8] He turned down the option of staying in British Superbikes with either HM Plant Honda or move to Rizla Suzuki, and turned down a World Superbike ride with the factory Xerox Ducati team. In his first race at Losail in Qatar, he crashed, badly injuring a finger.[9] At Assen he challenged for a first WSS win, losing by 0.014 seconds to team-mate Andrew Pitt.[10] He did win for Ten Kate at the Donington Park British Supersport race, which the team entered as practice for the later WSS race there. His first World Supersport win came at Brno, and he immediately followed this with a second win at Brands Hatch, although the race was stopped early after the fatal accident of Craig Jones with seven llaps remaining in the race.[11] A third win followed at Vallelunga, pushing him back up to second in the standings behind Pitt. His chances of winning the title were ended by a wild move from Robbin Harms in the penultimate round at Magny-Cours. He did remount to finish tenth in the race.[12]

World Superbikes

For 2009, Rea rode for the Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team in World Superbikes.[13] He made the switch before the end of 2008, meaning that he made his WSBK debut in the final 2008 round at Portimão. His first podium came in the second race at round six at Kyalami.[14] Another third place followed in the very next round at Miller Motorsport Park,[15] before his first WSBK win came at Misano, after a frantic battle with the Ducati duo of Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio.[16] This followed a chaotic first race that day; his bike failed on the dummy grid, he received a ride-through penalty for being given a lift back to the pits by Kiyonari on the warm-up lap, and when he switched to a wet set-up bike he – like team-mate Carlos Checa – had trouble getting the second bike fired up.[17]

File:2015 Kawasaki Competion Motorcycle ZX-10R.JPG
Rea's championship-winning ZX-10R on display in Tokyo
File:Jonathan Rea in Assen 2016.jpg
Rea at Assen in 2016

He added a further win in Germany to finish fifth overall and second best rookie behind top rookie, Ben Spies, who won the World Superbike championship that year. He remained with Ten Kate for 2010, and scored a double victory at the team's home round at Assen,[18] however this was followed by two crashes at Monza.[19] A further crash in Superpole at Miller Motorsport Park injured his neck and shoulder, though he still raced the next day, scoring a 14th and an eighth.[20] He scored only seven points at Misano, as he fell behind Carlos Checa in the battle for third place in the championship standings.[21]

For the 2011 season, Rea stayed with the Ten Kate Racing family as its Honda-supported World Superbike team received backing from global lubricants manufacturer, Castrol, reviving the famous Castrol Honda name that saw World Superbike championship victories with John Kocinski in 1997 and Colin Edwards in 2000 and 2002.

After spending his entire career riding Honda machinery, Rea joined Kawasaki Racing Team as Tom Sykes' new team-mate for the 2015 season. Rea dominated the season and won his maiden World Superbike title, with 14 wins.[22]

For the 2016 season, Rea remains with Kawasaki.

MotoGP

Rea made his MotoGP debut in 2012, replacing the injured Casey Stoner for the Repsol Honda team. He finished 8th in the San Marino race, held at Misano in Italy, and 7th at Motorland Aragon in Spain, before returning to World Superbike duties.

Career statistics

All time
Series Years Active Races Poles Podiums Wins 2nd place 3rd place Fast Laps Titles
British Superbike Championship 2005–07 50 1 16 5 9 2 0 0
World Supersport Championship 2008 12 0 6 3 1 2 0 0
World Superbike Championship 2008– 140 4 42 15 13 14 9 0
MotoGP 2012 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 204 5 64 23 23 18 9 0

British Superbike Championship

Races by year

Year Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos. Pts
R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2
2005 Honda BHI
13		 BHI
18		 THR
16		 THR
12		 MAL
14		 MAL
14		 OUL
12		 OUL
9		 MOP
Ret		 MOP
Ret		 CRO
7		 CRO
Ret		 KNO
Ret		 KNO
9		 SNE SNE SIL
12		 SIL
11		 CAD
Ret		 CAD
Ret		 OUL OUL DON
Ret		 DON
11		 BHGP
10		 BHGP
10		 16th 64
2006 Honda BHI
5		 BHI
Ret		 DON
8		 DON
5		 THR
4		 THR
5		 OUL
8		 OUL
4		 MOP
C		 MOP
C		 MAL
Ret		 MAL
8		 SNE
4		 SNE
20		 KNO
4		 KNO
2		 OUL
5		 OUL
4		 CRO
2		 CRO
13		 CAD
Ret		 CAD
3		 SIL
4		 SIL
5		 BHGP
18		 BHGP
3		 4th 248
2007 Honda BHGP
3		 BHGP
2		 THR
Ret		 THR
4		 SIL
2		 SIL
3		 OUL
4		 OUL
5		 SNE
2		 SNE
2		 MOP
4		 MOP
1		 KNO
1		 KNO
1		 OUL
Ret		 OUL
1		 MAL
2		 MAL
Ret		 CRO
2		 CRO
2		 CAD
Ret		 CAD
1		 DON
5		 DON
7		 BHI
2		 BHI
2		 2nd 407

Supersport World Championship

Races by year

Year Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos. Pts
2008 Honda QAT
Ret		 AUS
5		 ESP
6		 NED
2		 ITA
Ret		 GER
6		 SMR
3		 CZE
1		 GBR
1		 EUR
3		 ITA
1		 FRA
10		 POR 2nd 164

Superbike World Championship

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Races by year

Year Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pos. Pts
R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2
2008 Honda QAT QAT AUS AUS ESP ESP NED NED ITA ITA USA USA GER GER SMR SMR CZE CZE GBR GBR EUR EUR ITA ITA FRA FRA POR
4		 POR
15		 26th 14
2009 Honda AUS
5		 AUS
9		 QAT
12		 QAT
8		 SPA
Ret		 SPA
13		 NED
7		 NED
5		 ITA
5		 ITA
4		 RSA
4		 RSA
3		 USA
5		 USA
3		 SMR
7		 SMR
1		 GBR
7		 GBR
15		 CZE
3		 CZE
4		 GER
4		 GER
1		 ITA
7		 ITA
6		 FRA
Ret		 FRA
3		 POR
2		 POR
3		 5th 315
2010 Honda AUS
4		 AUS
6		 POR
3		 POR
Ret		 SPA
6		 SPA
5		 NED
1		 NED
1		 ITA
Ret		 ITA
Ret		 RSA
5		 RSA
2		 USA
14		 USA
8		 SMR
13		 SMR
12		 CZE
1		 CZE
2		 GBR
2		 GBR
2		 GER
1		 GER
2		 ITA
DNS		 ITA
DNS		 FRA
12		 FRA
DNS		 4th 292
2011 Honda AUS
12		 AUS
4		 EUR
5		 EUR
6		 NED
1		 NED
3		 ITA
6		 ITA
Ret		 USA
Ret		 USA
11		 SMR
DNS		 SMR
DNS		 SPA SPA CZE CZE GBR GBR GER
10		 GER
4		 ITA
1		 ITA
Ret		 FRA
Ret		 FRA
Ret		 POR
3		 POR
3		 9th 170
2012 Honda AUS
7		 AUS
4		 ITA
9		 ITA
5		 NED
Ret		 NED
1		 ITA
C		 ITA
6		 EUR
4		 EUR
1		 USA
4		 USA
2		 SMR
5		 SMR
2		 SPA
16		 SPA
5		 CZE
Ret		 CZE
12		 GBR
4		 GBR
9		 RUS
Ret		 RUS
7		 GER
Ret		 GER
4		 POR
6		 POR
2		 FRA
13		 FRA
2		 5th 278.5
2013 Honda AUS
8		 AUS
8		 SPA
4		 SPA
15		 NED
2		 NED
4		 ITA
8		 ITA
Ret		 GBR
4		 GBR
11		 POR
Ret		 POR
3		 ITA
Ret		 ITA
2		 RUS
4		 RUS
C		 GBR
1		 GBR
4		 GER
Ret		 GER
DNS		 TUR TUR USA USA FRA FRA SPA SPA 9th 176
2014 Honda AUS
6		 AUS
5		 SPA
3		 SPA
5		 NED
3		 NED
1		 ITA
1		 ITA
1		 GBR
6		 GBR
6		 MAL
6		 MAL
6		 SMR
7		 SMR
5		 POR
5		 POR
1		 USA
6		 USA
3		 SPA
4		 SPA
5		 FRA
3		 FRA
Ret		 QAT
4		 QAT
2		 3rd 334
2015 Kawasaki AUS
1		 AUS
2		 THA
1		 THA
1		 SPA
1		 SPA
2		 NED
1		 NED
1		 ITA
1		 ITA
1		 GBR
2		 GBR
2		 POR
1		 POR
1		 SMR
2		 SMR
1		 USA
3		 USA
3		 MAL
1		 MAL
2		 SPA
4		 SPA
4		 FRA
1		 FRA
1		 QAT
2		 QAT
Ret		 1st 548
2016 Kawasaki AUS
1		 AUS
1		 THA
1		 THA
2		 SPA
2		 SPA
3		 NED
1		 NED
1		 ITA ITA MAL MAL GBR GBR ITA ITA USA USA ITA ITA GER GER FRA FRA SPA SPA QAT QAT 1st* 181*

* Season still in progress.

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

Season Class Motorcycle Race Win Podium Pole FLap Pts Plcd
2012 MotoGP Honda 2 0 0 0 0 17 21st
Total 2 0 0 0 0 17

By class

Class Seasons 1st GP 1st Pod 1st Win Race Win Podiums Pole FLap Pts WChmp
MotoGP 2012 2012 San Marino 2 0 0 0 0 17 0

Races by year

(key)

Year Class Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pos. Pts
2012 MotoGP Honda QAT SPA POR FRA CAT GBR NED GER ITA USA IND CZE RSM
8		 ARA
7		 JPN MAL AUS VAL 21st 17

Personal life

Rea's family background lies in motorcycle road racing. His father, Johnny, competed at the Isle of Man TT and took his sole victory during the 1989 Junior TT race.[23] His grandfather, John, sponsored Joey Dunlop.

References

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External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by World Superbike Champion
2015		 Succeeded by
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