![]() ![]() Same fate two weeks running but if it points to a deeper issue we could be inįor a clichéd season of two halves. AB19 was maybe just unlucky that he has suffered the Genuinely looked like a mistake but it was something that many riders commentedĪbout afterwards, that all weekend, in dry conditions, there was no predictableįeeling with the tyres. Jonathan’s moto gymnastics in the previous race I couldn’t believe it. Lap only to lose the front and go down at the start of the next. In my mind he was going to do the same in race two, another 25 points,Īnd I was working out in my head at what race he would clinch the title.Ĭarbon copy of race two in Jerez, Bautista shot off into the lead in the first Seen Bautista dominating again and as I said, I had already skipped to the lastĬhapter. Sunday was warm and sunny but it didn’t stop lightning striking Interrupted by heavy downpours of rain, accompanied by frequent electrical FIM Superbike World Championship, Round 07, 21-23 June 2019, Misano, Italy, Weather Overlooked fact that all of the top motorcycle racers today are supremely fit, I would guess the pain and discomfort of that session evaporated in the face ofįive valuable championship points on Sunday morning. A car park that that morning had been cleared of snow and ice. Repeated exercises pushing a steel sled, laden with weights, up and down the car Of meeting Jonathan in the winter at home in Northern Ireland when he was doing Strength you would need to bear the weight of a 170kg Superbike on top of youĪnd still be able to pick it up without a moment of hesitation. Roll, picks the bike up, jumps on and rides away. Onto the bike, does a barrel roll, still holding on, and as he comes out of the Happened reads like something from a circus act. JR grabs his fifth title that moment could itself be more pivotal than what Sunday night when we were back in the hotel and, yes, indeed, I have never seen Press office and someone said that it was probably the best ‘save’ they hadĮver seen – “what happened?” – ‘oh he tucked the front but just picked it upĭone a ‘Marquez’, but it was way more than that. Mistake, run wide or something, and rejoined. Him running ahead of Melandri in fifth place. It wasn’t until I moved round a couple of corners that I noticed The track at the exit of turn six in the Superpole race and noticed that JR had FIM Superbike World Championship, Round 07, 21-23 June 2019, Misano, Italy, Jonathan Rea, KawasakiĮlse we have to talk about that crash/save/recovery though. Ready for throwing the towel in on the championship and putting all the chips I You would have had trouble to squeeze in any more intrigue if you tried. Sometimes the racing is interestingīut, in it’s mid season slot, it is the event that makes me feel that thingsĬan only get better from here for the remainder of the season. Room, to the track and back each day (never once getting sand between my toes)īefore jumping on a plane to come home. Weekend I go from a second rate tourist hotel, that resembles God’s waiting Antipathy towards the Misano World Circuit as a boring track to photograph andĪ venue for me devoid of all la dolce vita that people effuse about.
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