Superbikes – a real blast

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Superbikes – a real blast

FIREWORKS lit up the night sky over the Phillip Island race track on Friday night with celebrations for the 25th year of the world Superbike championship blasting off.
While British riders stole the show at the opening round of the 2015 Superbike World Championship with Jonathan Rea and Leon Haslam sharing first and second places in the two races, pushed all the way by Chaz Davies, the Island shares in the victory with Race One winner Northern Ireland’s Rea making Phillip Island his home base for the Australian summer with his Phillip Island wife Tatia Weston and family.
It was Rea’s maiden victory at Phillip Island.
Rea, a keen cyclist and regular rider with the Island cyclist group swapped his pushy for his high powered Kawasaki and said, “Race one was particularly tough.
I was thinking it would be like a bicycle race with different people doing some work at the front but no-one seemed to put their nose in the wind too much.” Rea had his Kawasaki in front for all but one lap of race one.

Thrilling: Jonathan Rea Kawasaki (65)  leads the action in race one.

Thrilling: Jonathan Rea Kawasaki (65) leads the action in race one.

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