Pata Honda Press Release Interview: Jonathan Rea On Leg Injuries, Staying With Honda And 2014

The Pata Honda team today issued the following press release, containing an interview with Jonathan Rea. In it, Rea discusses the leg injury he suffered in Germany, watching races at home, why he chose to remain with Honda, and his hopes for 2014:

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Rea raring to go for 2014

Q&A with Pata Honda World Superbike rider Jonathan Rea

By his own admission, Jonathan Rea's 2013 World Superbike season was not all that he would have wanted and, in spite of maintaining his record of scoring at least one race win in each of his five SBK seasons to date, it ended prematurely.

The 26-year-old was well-placed in race one at the Nurburgring in Germany on 1 September when he crashed at high speed on an expired machine's oil. Rea broke his left femur in the crash and his season was over.

It was the second serious rider injury that the Pata Honda team suffered this season after Rea's team-mate Leon Haslam broke his left tibia and fibula at Assen in The Netherlands in April.

Haslam returned to riding just four weeks later but his injury and its after- affects influenced the rest of his season and his own contribution to the development of the 2013 CBR1000RR.

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