Rea working on his testing comeback
Speaking from his home, Rea said, "I have one more week to go before I get my cast off, and the ligament should be repaired again. Six weeks is an average time for ligament repair, and then it will be rehab on my wrist again. I have lost a lot of muscle definition on my left forearm I and I have my cast changed twice as it got smaller. I separated the AC joint in my shoulder but it is not serious enough to warrant an operation. So I have been left alone to let it settle for a while. The main thing is that I sleep on my left side, so I wake up sometimes in a lot of pain. Because there is a cast on my wrist I cannot do press ups and so on, and the only way forward is to build muscle around it."
He is hopeful of a return to track action relatively soon, nonetheless. "I get my cast off on Monday and my surgeon thinks it is not out of the question that I can be testing in three weeks, maybe at Portimao, so that is provisionally pencilled in," said Jonathan. "I won't know until I get my cast off and see how my wrist is, and do some work with it. It is frustrating because I know we do not really need to go testing as the bike is in a good way and before the crash I was riding at the top of my game. But it is frustrating seeing everyone else out there and they are going to make a big step, so we need to improve our bike as well. "
Rea is a six time race winner in his two-year full-time WSBK career, each win coming for his current Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team.
