Jonathan Rea on 2026 WorldSBK plans: “I don't want to end my career on a low”

Jonathan Rea says he൩ wants to make a dec༒ision on his WorldSBK future “after Donington”.

Jonathan Rea, 2025 Emilia-Romagna WorldSBK, track walk. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Jonathan Rea, 2025 Emilia-Romagna WorldSBK, track walk. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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Jonathan Rea says he doesn🦩’t know what “options” will be available for him in WorldSBK in 2026, but that he wants “to be competitive”.

The six-time 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Champion is winless since Race 1 at Most in 2023, his last win on Kawasaki, and has scored just one podium since he moved to Yamaha at the♌ beginning of last year.

Rea’s 2025 preseason looked promising, but a crash in testing in Australia saw him suffer a complicated foot and ankle injury, involving multiple fractures, which left him on the sidelines for the opening races of the seaso𝄹n.

꧙Retuಞrning at the Italian Round at the beginning of May, Rea picked up his first points of the season at Most last time out.

But for a rider with 119 WorldSBK race wins to his name, anything less than being competitive for race wins will be unsatisfactory, an꧅d 38-year-old Rea is sure that, were his career to end now, he would be retiring on a negative note.

“I don't want to end my career on a low,” 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea told the German publication Speedweek.

“I want to be competitive. [...] I don't know yet what options I♔'ll have.

“M👍y idea is that I make a decision after Donington. If nothing exciting comes up, I'm prepared to stay ho🅘me.

“But I want to know beforehand how competitive I can be with this bike and my crew. For me, this i🦩s unfinished business.

“The road cꦍan go either way: first I have to find out if I'm interested in continuing as I do now.

“And Yamaha has to find out if ♊the🌜y want to keep me on board.”

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