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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 September 1989 Tooting, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gino Daniel Rea (born 18 September 1989) is an English motorcycle racer who returned to racing in the Superstock class at the Le Mans 24-hour race in April 2024,[1] his first competitve event after suffering serious injuries in a practice crash at the Suzuka 8 Hours in August 2022.
After emergency hospital treatment including an induced coma, after a month he was transferred by a specialised medical aircraft from Japan to London.[2][3]
After partial recovery, Rea has been invited to ride a machine in a parade lap at the Le Mans 24-hour round of EWC in April 2023.[4]
Rea's team mates, together with substitute rider Alan Techer, clinched the 2022 Endurance World Championship title at the Bol d'Or race in September 2022.[5]
In 2020 he competed in the FIM Endurance World Championship with Wojcik Racing Yamaha, finishing 4th in the World Championship Standings and joined the British Superbike Championship aboard a Suzuki GSX-R1000R with the Buildbase Suzuki team to replace an injured rider. Rea participated in Wojcik Racing's first ever Podium in the FIM EWC at the Bol d'Or 24hr, finishing in second position and winning the Dunlop Independent Cup,[6] following that up with another podium at the Estoril 12hr EWC race. Rea joined the Buildbase Suzuki team as a substitute rider at the fourth British Superbike race of the 2020 season. Rea went on to lead his first BSB race at Donington Park, finishing in 4th position across the line.[7]
- ^ Suzuki wins Le Mans 24 hour after Yamaha squanders huge lead visordown.com, 22 April 2024. Retrieved 3 May 2024
- ^ Gino Rea showing "signs of recovery," says latest update from familyvisordown.com, 11 August 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022
- ^ Gino Rea leaves hospital, returns to UK a month on from Suzuka 8 Hours crash visordown.com, 7 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022
- ^ Gino Rea: I want to be back trying to win races again in EWC Fimewc.com, via Eurosport, 7 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023
- ^ Recovering Gino Rea a World Champion as FCC TSR Honda win EWC title at Bol d'Or visordown.com, 20 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022
- ^ "Rea and Wójcik Racing take Independent Team honours at Bol d'Or". Bikesport News. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "BEST SUZUKI RESULT FOR REA AS NEAVE PODIUMS AT DONINGTON". www.suzuki-racing.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.