ROUND 9/AUGUST 4, 2013
SILVERSTONE CIRCUIT/SILVERSTONE, ENGLAND
WORLD SUPERBIKE
P104
WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP
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WINNERS
Honda's Jonathan
Rea (65) won his
first race of the
season when he
came out on top
of race one at
Silverstone.
Rea and Baz split wins in England
BY GORDON RITCHIE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
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The second
race win went
to Kawasaki's
Loris Baz (76) in
iffy conditions
that resulted in
the race being
stopped prior
to it going full
distance.
n a day when the weather
once more determined a
lot of endings to a lot of
riders' stories, there were two
new names on the 2013 race
winners' lists.
In race one Jonathan Rea
made the breakthrough to winning status for the Pata Honda
team and in doing so took Honda
into the race winners' circle of
manufacturers in 2013 that had
only previously included Kawasaki, BMW and Aprilia.
It was a bizarre race, run on a than anybody.
and find the pace is quite slow but
strange and ever-changing sur"I think it was one of the hard- then work up the confidence to go
face, which Rea handled better est races there is, to go out there forward," Rea said of his first win
