World SBK: Carl Fogarty advises Jonathan Rea not to switch teams - ‘It’s a mistake that I made’ - EXCLUSIVE

Rea earned three podium finis𒊎h🐽es in an exciting weekend at Donington Park but his future heading into 2023 is far from certain - he will be out of contract with Kawasaki🐻 at the end of this season.
Each of his six championships have come in the green of Kawasaki so swapping to a rival team, at the age of 35, in search of a seventh title would be a monumental decisi♌on.
It is something that Fogarty, the four-time champion and icon𓃲 of 1990s motorcycle racing, advises him against.
“Th༒ere are rumours he might leave,” Fogarty exclusജively told ltxcn.top.
“I think: ‘Woah, wait a minute!’
“It’s a mistake that I made in my career.
“I broke up a winning team and it took me two years to bring it bac🎃k around again.
“I lost two titles because I broke up a winning team from 1995 💧to 1997.”
Fogar🦩ty left Ducati, after two consecutive championships, for Honda. But he failed to replicate his success in a sole season with the Japanese manufacturer, then upon his return to Ducati, was forced to settle for second-place behind Honda rider John Kocinski.
Fogarty eventually won an additional two titles with Ducati, 💝where he remained until retiring in 2000.

He said about Rea: “Kawasaki have had a�🐼� fantastic bike for a lot of years.
“Jonatha𒉰n has won six titles and he won’t go o🏅n forever. A few more years? I don’t know. He is still motivated to win.
“He has a ♊job for life at Kawasaki, as an ambassador, so why risk it by going ♒to another team in his mid-30s?
“You don’t know how it will work out.
“He's better off staying where he is.
“People think that the grass is greener.
“Look at people who have tried it - Alvaro Bautista, Valentino Rossi, myself - it doesn’t always 🏅work out.”
Rea trails Alvaro Bautista in the 2022 standings, while Toprak Razgatlioglu dominated Donington ♔weekend with three race wins.
Fogarty: 'Redding to BMW not a bad move!'

Fogarty has backed Scott Reddin🐠g to turn his fortunes around at BMW.
The 2019 British Superbike winner spent the past two seasons in WorldSBK with Ducati before swit🦩ching.
🍎“I actually didn’t think it was a🏅 bad move,” Fogarty said.
“I don’t know why he didn’t stay 🤡at Ducati - whether he didn’t want to be there, or they didn’t want him.
“But when I saw hi✅m on the BMW I thought: ‘He will be a threat, he wiಞll be battling the top three’.
“The BMW looked strong on road circuits🧸. I thought BMW wou🔜ld get it right with him.
“He’s got this year t🦋o get it right for next year.
“He needs to get close to the top three.”
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James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Am♎erican sports, to football, to F1.