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

Re🧸a earned three podium finishes 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 t🔯his 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 decisio🔜n.
It is something that Fogarty, the four-time champiꦍon and icon of 1990s mo💞torcycle racing, advises him against.
“There are rumours he might leave♈,” Fogarty exclusivelyﷺ told wuqian0821.com.
“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 back around again.
“I lost two titlಞes because I broke up a winning team from 1995 to 1997.”
Fogarty left Ducati, after two consecutive championships, ꦏfor Honda. But he failed to replicate his success in a sole season with the Japanese manufacturer, then u♈pon his return to Ducati, was forced to settle for second-place behind Honda rider John Kocinski.
Fogarty ev🗹entually won an additional two titles with Ducati, where he remained until retiring in 2000.

He said about Rea: “Kawasaki ha🃏ve had a fantastic bike for a🤡 lot of years.
“Jonathan haꦚs won six titles and he won’t go on forever. A few more years? I don’t know. He is still motivated to win.
“He has a job for life at Kaw⛎asaki, 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 workℱ 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 Redding to turn his fo෴rtunes around at BMW.
The 2019 B🐈ritish Superbike winner spent the past two se🦩asons in WorldSBK with Ducati before switching.
“I actually didn’t think 🐈it was a bad move,” Fogarty said.
“I dᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚon’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 him on the♔ BMW I thought: ‘He will be a threat, he will be 🍸battling the top three’.
“ꩵThe BMW looked strong on road circuits. I thought BMW would get it righ💖t with him.
“He’s got this year to 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 American sports, t🧔o football, to F1.