Navarra WorldSBK: Layout draws Misano comparison, turn one ‘is big balls’ - Rea

As WorldSBK heads into the second of its two inaugural rounds this season, Jonathan Rea and Garrett Gerlof🍸f have shared their thoughts about the Spanish layout.ꦿ
It’s a circuit that features six first gear corners - the most on the current ca𒊎lendar, while boosting a turn one tha♎t is taken in sixth gear with Superbike machinery.
The layout is an unchar🀅acteristic and unique one, however, several riders including Rea and Gerloff both used Misano and Portimao as comparisons.
Rea added: "Corner one is big balls! It’s sixth gear, tipping i💙n there and it’s like no other corner in the world, that’s why it’s unique.
"It’s almost like tipping into Curvone at Misano. The last bit is like Portimao with the kink, kink and then hairpin. It🅠’s not difficult to go fast here, but it’s difficult to go really fast.
"Those last tenths are very difficult to find because the circuit is so tight and very techni🌞cal."
Gerloff, who secured three top ten finishes at Most last time out, will be eager to push on and claim a second p🐲odium of the year given Yamaha is arguably the best package out there.
If the A♎merican is to claꦑim a podium finish this weekend, it will come at a circuit that ‘reminds me of a go-kart track’.
Gerloff s⛄aid: "It’s definitely an interesting layout! There are some places that remind me of Misan💖o, for example, and maybe Portimao.
"It’s definitely its own thing, it has its unique characteristics. I think I’m in first gear six🌠 times around the track so it’s defin꧂itely tight, kind of reminds me of a go-kart track a little bit."