The six-time WorldSBK champion is facing an uphill battle heading into today’s qualifying and Race 1, aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚfter several issues plagued him en route to a disappointing P9. 

Rea made a slow start to FP1 and was as low dཧown as 14th before gradually making his way up the leaderboard. 

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However, progress soon stopped once he broke into the top ten, with acceleration bein♋g one of the main issues.

Asked about the i♍mprovements that needed to be made for today's first of three WorldSBK races, Rea said: "Generally, all over but for me, I need to൲ finish the corners a bit better, and for the acceleration areas, the bike needs to accelerate more. 

"I’m really struggling in sec𝔍tor two which is where the acceleration towards Quercia and the exit before Tromonto. In the last sector, I📖’m not so good and I don’t understand why. 

"We need to go over the data compared to previou♉s years because I felt better there last year. Honestly, I haven’t looked through the classification so, I don’t know the pace of the others. 

"The goal is always the podium and try to be as close to it as ꦰpossible and pick up good points for my championship and try tꦑo improve the bike." 

Unlike his rivals who tested at Misano recently, Rea, who himself completed ཧone day of private testing alongside teammate Alex Lowes at Jerez less than two weeks ago, was also trying to get upꦚ to speed which slowed him down at the beginning of the day.

But with that said, Rea wasꦛ not overly worried as his current level of performance was where he expected to be. 

Rea added: "It was a little bit difficult getting up to speed after missing the test a few weeks ago, which meant that we had to find 🍸the way a bit🧸 this morning. In the afternoon, we focused on a long run to see how the tyre would be for the race. 

"We had some issues in FP1 which took t൲ime to understand why we weren’t performing so well, but o✅nce we understood that, we were able to work away. 

"These are things we could’ve ironed out at the test to rea♓lly understand. It was a learning day. For day one, wꦜe are where we expected to be."