Superbike: A fantastic weekend for Rea

Jonathan Rea leaves only crumbs to his opponents for yet another weekend, scoring the fourth race double of the season, out of seven rounds played, and reaching out for the 2015 world championship crown.

With Algarve's 50 points he rises to 330 points in the standings, with an abysmal advantage of 124 points over Tom Sykes and 131 over Leon Haslam, which translated into something like 5 games ahead.
So far out of 14 races Rea has won 10 and finished second 4 times: it is true that the championship is still long and there are still six events on the calendar (Portimao was the seventh out of thirteen), but the ease with which Rea first recovered and then having controlled both races, he left very little hope for his opponents, who were also decimated by unlucky episodes in turn.
Yesterday, for example, it was Tom Sykes' turn: the 2013 world champion was expected to have a great performance, considering that his teammate only started eighth, and instead he was stopped by his Ninja, first due to a gearbox problem and then due to a puncture.

At the end of the day Rea, in addition to expressing his more than understandable enthusiasm, also launched a veiled dig at Honda's former employers:

“I have a great bike, a great team around me and a great strategy for each weekend. My chief mechanic Pere Riba and I know how to sit around a table and come up with a good set-up based on the tyres. We learned from some mistakes made at Donington and that has made us stronger here. I'm riding well, but also because I have the tools to do so. So I have to give a lot of credit to all my mechanics for working so hard, and also to Kawasaki in Japan, because they continue to develop the project, as in tomorrow's test [today] we will also have something new to try. Now we know where the limit is and today we had two good races. The points advantage is a lot after this round, but I will try not to change the way I'm riding."

Rea will therefore take to the track again today, together with the rest of the drivers, for a day of testing again at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimao.