Jonathan Rea reunited with a familiar face as his 2024 Yamaha crew chief is confirmed
Six-time 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:WorldSBK champion Rea is leaving Kawasaki and will begin a new adventuꦦre with﷽ Yamaha, starting next week at a postseason test.
Topr𒊎ak Raz🃏gatlıoglu is leaving Yamaha to go to BMW, and will take his current crew chief Phil Marron with him.
Rea’s current crew chief at Kawasaki, Pere Riba, is staying put despite the rider’s ꩲhigh-profile move.
That left R💮ea requiring a new crew chief at his new team - and fortunately the perfect candidate was already on the other side of the box.
Pitt i🏅s currently Andrea Locatelli’s crew chief but it has been confirmed by Yamaha that, next sea✱son, he will instead work with Rea.
Locatelli now n𓆉eeds a new crew chief - Yamaha say they’ve got somebody lined up, but haven’t confir🐠med who it is.
Rea and Pitt were teammates𒊎 at Hanspree Ten Kate Honda in 2008 in WorldSSP.
Y🌞amaha Team Principal Paul Denning said: “I can confirm that Andrew will come across to work with Jonathan.
“They’ve got a very close relationship th🐲at goes back many, many years.
“They’ve been teammates before but when Andrew was a rider, not a crew ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚchief.&✨nbsp;
“On top of that, we’ve got a very, very exciting crew chief coming to join the team to strengthen the whole project, who will﷽ work with ‘Loka’. That’ll be announced towards the end of November.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everyth🦋ing from American sports, to football, to F1.
