Rea be🦋gan his journey with Kawas🔯aki in 2015 and won six WorldSBK titles in succession, before losing out to Toprak Razgatlioglu in 2021.

A 13-time race🐎 winner in said season, Rea then saw his win total decrease to six as Alvaro Bautista 𒁏joined the mix at the head of the field.

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With Kawasaki continuing to lose ground compared to Ducati and Yama💖ha𒊎, Rea has endured his least successful season ever with the Japanese manufacturer in 2023, winning just one race so far.

But the Northern Irishman has still been a contender at times, especial♈ly in the Superpole Races and with the right package would be a favourite to win many more.

That’s exactly the opportunity he should have when he moves to Yamaha next season, but before that, Rea wants 💦to end what is the most successful rider-team partnership ever in Superbikes on a ‘huge high’.

Rea said: “It feels really different, the whole approach to the weekend. We know it’s the final🃏 page of our huge chapter in my career and it feels like the perfect꧙ book-end here at Jerez, to finish the journey that started here in 2015 when I won my first World Championship. 

“I’m excited to get stuck in to the weekend aﷺnd try to build on the past weekends. We’ve beenℱ podium contenders from mid-season onwards. 

“Podiums are the target but we’ll start tomorrow with Free Practi🍎ce. I’m full of ambition to make myself and my team really proud. 

“Ideally, it’d be that we go out on a huge high with a euphoric feeling. On my 2024 crew, I have total fai💦th with those who I’ll work with and I’m quite e꧑xcited too; it’s not very long to wait now. 

With [the new] regulations, you have to take time to understand but what’s nice is that th🥃e Championship is working hard to make it sustainably competitive for everyone.”