I hate to say it, but my love for World Superbikes hasn?t got any stronger in recent years. And I know I?m not the only one. I put it down to one thing; the fact that Jonathan Rea just seems to be consistently that little bit better than the opposition. Or sometimes, a lot better. Don?t get me wrong, there?s sometimes decent racing in WSBK, but it?s seldom for the lead. It?s a real shame. And whilst winning six out of six World Championships in a row is an incredible achievement, and one that Jonathan Rea and Kawasaki ought to be jolly proud of, I feel like it just goes to show that the pairing is in a bit of a league of its own. Which isn?t a good thing if you?re a World Superbike fan.

But what?s the difference between Jonathan Rea dominating in WSBK and Marc Marquez dominating in MotoGP" I know MM93 hasn?t done so since 2019, but only because he?s raspberry rippled himself; he still won five out of the last six MotoGP Championships. Well, the difference is really very simple, MotoGP is the absolute pinnacle of the sport. The Peak. The upper apex. The zenith, so to speak. Which means World Superbikes is not.
Let me explain what I?m getting at by way of an analogy. Imagine you had a shit-hot darts player going from pub to pub throwing triple 20 after triple 20. He makes everybody else look daft and is easily good enough to be chucking arrows around next to the likes of Phil Taylor and Eric Bristow down at the Ally Pally in front of hundreds of pissed-up, nove...