{"id":160362,"date":"2025-09-22T05:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160362\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T05:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:39:07","slug":"jonathan-rea-picks-out-his-worldsbk-career-rival-it-was-a-frosty-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160362\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Rea picks out his WorldSBK \u201ccareer rival\u201d: &#8220;It was a frosty relationship&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Chaz Davies has been named by Jonathan Rea as his \u201ccareer rival\u201d as he winds down his time as a full-time racer in WorldSBK.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rea and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1165\/chaz-davies\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davies<\/a> fought for the title together for four consecutive seasons between 2015 and 2018, Rea coming out on top each time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In that time, Davies won 25 races, and retired at the end of the 2021 season as the rider with the most wins in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> without a title in the class.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Welshman finished runner-up to Rea in three of the four seasons, missing out on the silver medal to Tom Sykes in 2016 when Davies was third instead \u2013 although it was this year that saw Davies score his record points haul with 445.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a result of Davies\u2019 strength in these years, it\u2019s him that Rea considers the main rival of his career.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWithout a doubt Chaz Davies,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1555\/jonathan-rea\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Rea<\/a> told a special press conference in Magny-Cours when asked to pick out one rival from his World Superbike career.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe\u2019s been my career rival in my prime, or my era of Superbike. I feel like if I hadn\u2019t won three, four, five world titles, Chaz would\u2019ve won the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe was a guy that I felt like brought out the best of me on the track but also off the track. I was really motivated at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cChaz was a professional, clever guy. I would enjoy the plaudits on the weekend and a few beers on a Sunday night, but I\u2019d go home and [&#8230;] I\u2019d turn myself inside out to come back and try to beat him even more or to return the favour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt was good and you never knew \u2013 a bit like Toprak [Razgatlioglu] in this era \u2013 if, sometimes if there wasn\u2019t a gap there, Chaz would make a gap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI hope after racing we can really enjoy that with each other, because it was a frosty relationship \u2013 and I enjoyed that, honestly \u2013 but I would say he was my career rival and I enjoyed that a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaz Davies has been named by Jonathan Rea as his \u201ccareer rival\u201d as he winds down his time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,106368,52088,806,805,803,804,27363,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-160362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chaz-davies","11":"tag-jonathan-rea","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-pata-maxus-yamaha","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}