After switching fr🍷om Ducati to BMW, Redding’s 2022 season got off to a dreadful start as he went from 🀅competing for wins to struggling to finish in the points with the German manufacturer at the WorldSBK season-opener in Aragon. 

As he became more comfortable with the M 1000 RR and crucially BMW finding improvements to its machine, Redding showed once again that he can fight the likes of world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea.

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Podiums at Donington Park, Most and Magny-Cours followed a difficult opening few rounds, before a solid end to the season from Redding helped mov𒀰e BMW ahead of Honda in the Manufacturers’ championship.

However, Redding was us🔯ed to winning races prior to his switch to BMW, which is why the word ‘ch♏allenging’ was used to describe his latest season. 

Redding summed up his sea🍌son by telling WorldSBK.com: "Challenging! I feel that I expected it to be a little bit easier this year. I had some better times and I had some harder times, so it made it challenging in general, and also, me coming from another bike that has a completely different engine to this bike was also challenging." 

"The best moment was probably getting on t✱he podium in Most because I really felt like I could challenge the front guys there. 

"I had the opportunity to be there with them and I just felt good with 💧the bike and to fight at the f💮ront where I feel I should be."

Like Redding, Rea also had his least successful season since 2020, although six wins and another 24 podiums showed just how we🎃ll Rea still🗹 performed.

Yet, it wasn’t enough to keep pace with Razgatlioglu and in particular Bautista, as Rea finished over🥃 100 points down on the latter. 

While Redding and Rea spent a lot less time battling one-another on-track in 2022, the BMW rider couldn’t hide his surprise at the lack of race wins for Rea, despite awcknoledgi🌼ng that the Kawasaki rider was riding to the limit. 

Redding added: "Biggest surprise was to see Jonathan [Rea] not winning as much a꧅s he used to even though he;s riding just as hard. 

"But it’s maybe not🥃 enough at this moment to win races. It’s quite a surprise."