Defending champion Jonathan Rea credited his team's hard work in the off-season for his victory in Saturday's opening race of the 2016 World Superbike Championship. The Northern Irishman didn't exactly set the world alight in the first preseason test of the year in Spain, but his engineers - led by crew-chief Pere Riba - went back to the drawing board and came up with the perfect solution to ensure Rea was highly competitive at Phillip Island. “We expected to be strong,” Rea told Crash.net. “I'm so lucky with Pere and my guys. We made a strategy for the winter tests in November and it's clear that it worked. “Today to be strong and stay in front at this track is so difficult. I...
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