Six-time series champion Rea goes into the 2022 season not defending a title for the first time since 2015 following his defeat to Yamaha rival Toprak Razgatlioglu in last year’s thrilling title battle.
Although Razgatlioglu led the way in a private test for which most of the WSBK field was present last week at Barcelona, Rea struck back with the quickest time on Monday’s opening day of official pre-season testing at Aragon.
The Ulsterman posted a best lap of 1m49.394s to edge Razgatlioglu by a scant 0.016 seconds at the head of the timesheets.
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Speaking to reporters at the end of a day characterised by unseasonably cold conditions at Aragon, Rea detailed the improvements that Kawasaki has made to its challenger in response to last year’s defeat.
“We’ve been testing quite a few items over the off-season, chassis parts, software ideas, basically today we started with what we finished with last year from a chassis point of view,” said Rea.
“Then we had our ’22-spec…
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