[kropotkin thinks...] - Rea Extends With Ten Kate Honda For 2011

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After a long period of silence on the rider signing front in World Superbikes comes a flurry of contract announcements in the series. The Sterilgarda Yamaha team line up was announced over the past couple of days, and today comes an announcement from the Ten Kate Honda team that Ulsterman Johnny Rea will be staying with the team for 2011.

On the face of it, the announcement contains nothing of great interest - other than Rea's wholly unsurprising statement that he hopes to move into MotoGP in 2012 with Honda - and yet there are a few things in the press release that are at the very least curious and worthy of closer inspection. Perhaps the strangest thing about the press release is the fact that it was entirely unnecessary. The statement says that Rea "is currently in the second year of a three-year contract with the team" which begs the question as to why issue a press release on the subject at all. The release adds no information to what we knew already, but is perhaps more informative for what it leaves out.

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