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Jonathan 'Johnny' Rea
Jonathan Rea. August 2008
NationalityNorthern Irish
Born (1987-02-02) 2 February 1987 (age 37)
Larne, Northern Ireland
Current teamCastrol Honda World Superbike Team
Bike number4
Websitehttp://www.jrea65.com/

Jonathan 'Johnny' Rea (born February 2, 1987 in Larne, Northern Ireland[1]) is a motorcycle racer, currently competing in the Superbike World Championship for Castrol Honda. 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 and 2011.[2]

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.

BSB Success

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,[3] after dominating wet practice but struggling in the dry first race. A double victory at Knockhill followed,[4] 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.[5] He attended the 2007 World Superbike round at Brands Hatch, as he began to explore international options.[6]

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.[7] 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.[8] At Assen he challenged for a first WSS win, losing by 0.014 seconds to team-mate Andrew Pitt.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11]

World Superbikes

For 2009, Rea rode for the Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team in World Superbikes.[12] 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.[13] Another third place followed in the very next round at Miller Motorsport Park,[14] before his first WSBK win came at Misano, after a frantic battle with the Ducati duo of Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio.[15] 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.[16]

He added a further win in Germany to finish fifth overall and top rookie. He remained with Ten Kate for 2010, and scored a double victory at the team's home round at Assen,[17] however this was followed by two crashes at Monza.[18] 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.[19] He scored only seven points at Misano, as he fell behind Carlos Checa in the battle for third place in the championship standings.[20]

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 (USA) in 1997 and Colin Edwards (USA) in 2000 and 2002.

Career statistics

Stats correct as of 25 June 2012

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– 84 3 23 10 9 9 7 0
Total 146 4 49 18 18 13 7 0

By championship

British Superbike Championship

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
BHI
THR
THR
MAL
MAL
OUL
OUL
MOP
MOP
CRO
CRO
KNO
KNO
SNE
SNE
SIL
SIL
CAD
CAD
OUL
OUL
DON
DON
BHGP
BHGP
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

Year Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos Pts Ref
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 [21]

Superbike World Championship

Year Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pos Pts Ref
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 [22]
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 [23]
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 [24]
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 [25]
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
GER
POR
POR
FRA
FRA
5th* 212.5* [26]
  • * Season in progress.

References

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