Jonathan Rea, the six-time WSBK World Champion, may have thrown a spanner in the works by comparing, on the theme of falls, his favorite discipline with MotoGP, which he dabbled in 2012. The Northern Irishman thus supported his theory on the aspect of the single manufacturer, which therefore amounts to evaluating Pirelli for the WSBK and Michelin for the MotoGP…
Jonathan Rhea is the boss of WSBK for several seasons already that he has been crushing with his Kawasaki. He was also a pilot MotoGP for some freelance work at Honda Repsol replacing Casey Stoner. So he has some experience of both worlds and he opened up about it in a conversation with BSB rider Taylor Mackenzie. On this occasion, Jonathan Rhea raised the essential question concerning the differences between the championship reserved for machines derived from the series and MotoGP, whose starting grid is populated by prototypes. In giving his answer, Jonathan Rea indicated the tires as the essential component that makes the difference.
In the era Michelin , as in the era Bridgestone, the number of falls recorded has always been very high. The Northern Irish pilot has his own ideas on the matter: “ in MotoGP, there are often stupid or avoidable accidents, especially when the front tire is cold. The electronics are certainly advanced both in Superbike and especially in MotoGP, but some tire behaviors are difficult to predict ».
Jonathan Rea pays tribute to MotoGP riders
Sale explain : " when I raced MotoGP with Honda I felt like I was going really fast and instead I was a second behind the leaders in lap time. I was used to the Pirellis where to go fast you have to lighten the front as much as possible, whereas in MotoGP it was exactly the opposite. To turn the tire, you had to deform it by loading a lot of weight on the front ».
« Our tires in WSBK allow us to find the limit quite easily, whereas in MotoGP this is not the case. We must pay tribute to those who ride them, because the motorcycle does not allow them to better understand what is happening and therefore it is difficult to find the limit without exceeding it, that is to say until the fall " finished Jonathan Rhea on Moto sprint.
