Jonathan Rea has rꦬeacted to his unusual first win on a Yamaha, which came on a dirt track.

Rea was among the big names to enter a charity dirt bike✅ race on Sunday at the EICMA trade show in Milan.

Riding a YZ450F, modified for a dirt track, Rea beat contemporary riders (plus Ryan Vick⛦ers, who was third) to claim the win.

The🐟 format was a series of h💦ead-to-head time trials.

Rea beat fellow World Superbike Cౠhampi🌞onship rider Vierge first, then Pata Yamaha teammate Andrea Locatelli.

He beat Vickers, who will join W🌳SBK in 2025, in the semi-final then World Supermoto star Elia Sammartin in the final.

“I didn’t really know what to expect heading into the races as I haven’t ridden a lot of flat track before but I knew I was going to give it a ꦦgood go,” Rea said.

“I felt good from the first practice, Yamaha Motor Italia had put together a really awesome GYTR-kitted YZ450F for us and the track was fairly easy to learn, even if it did take a couple of🌌 crashes!

“I felt really good in my first race against Vierge, 𓃲although from the first laps I was getting really bad arm pump like I’ve not had in years so I knew it was going to 𓆉be a challenge.

🐬“I was actually really nervous coming here to ride, 𝔉as anything can happen at these end of season things but my racing brain took over and each race I did I got faster!

“The final was really close and Sammartin was riding really well and made no mistakes, so I was pretty pleased to cross the line𒀰 to take the win, to be on top of the podium was really nice!”

It was his fi🥀rst win of any kind since swapping Kawasaki for Yamaha.