After receiving a 250 rev increase earlier in the season, the same number of revs that were taken away from Ducati in the hope of bringing 🌄closing racing to the front of WorldSBK, Kawasaki were given a second helping prior to the Imola round. 

It means🐼 the Japanese manufacturer has so far been boosted by 50ꦚ0 revs this season, however, the factory KRT team have not been using the extra revs.

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Rea, who is ꦺstill winless after 21 races in 2🌠023, has had the pace to match the likes of Alvaro Bautista and Toprak Razgatlioglu during the early stages of races.

But it💝’s the second half where Rea and teammate Alex Lowes have often ran into trouble. 

Ducati have so far seen very little, if💙 any drop off in performance as Bautista has continued to dominate, while Axel Bassani came close to 𝄹a maiden win on Sunday. 

Surpr꧅ised at why Kawasaki has not chosen to use the extra revs, Rea said: "I have no idea, technically, you'll have to speak with my team. 500rpm helps as you can be more aggressive with the final gearing, be much shorter with the acceleratio🐻n as you have more over-rev. 

"I guess with the camshaft, this will be a better spec so maybe we'll 𓄧generate more power but I don't know. I'm surmising now, so speak with 🐭the team. 

"I don’t understand my team or Kawasaki’s direction with this though, because obvi꧂ously, we need to get concession points first befor🌟e we can get this final piece. 

"But the idea is to be on the podium and trying to fight for race wins which d🎶on't get the concession points needed; we need to be competitive. 

"I hope we don’t get i🌱t because I hope that means we’re doing a good job and don’t need them. It’s a♛ strange one."