After missing the opening round in Australia, Johnny Rea will also be forced to miss the second round of the 2025 SBK season scheduled for March 28th-30th in Portimao. As a result of having fractured his left foot during the Phillip Island test, the Yamaha rider will also have to skip Portugal, or at least that's what it seems like, from what the Crashnet website reported that Team Principal Paul Denning said.
"Unfortunately, there are no possibilities," he stated. "Jonathan feels really bad about having to return home. He's spoke with surgeon and his next move will be... I don't want to share anything medical, since it's a personal thing, but he'll do everything to be ready to return as soon as possible."
In the face of an almost inevitable operation, there's no chance that we'll be seeing him in the upcoming tests. "Given the complexity of the injury, the dates of mid- and late March are too close together. We'll certainly have two riders on the track by then, but they haven't been chosen yet," he admitted.
As of today, the most fitting appears to be the brand's MotoGP test rider, Augusto Fernandez, but they supposedly also contacted Andrea Dovizioso.