𒐪A new Yamaha chief has admitted they “expected more” from Jonathan Rea’s debut season.

Rea ended his legendary Kawasaki stint whi🌜ch yielded six World Superbike Championship titl♚es to join their rival brand a year ago.

But in 20🅷24 on the Yamaha, 💫Rea didn’t win or even make a single podium.

He ended the season 13th in the championship.

"It was certainly a se🔯ason below expectations,” new Yamaha WSBK sporting director Niccolo Canepa told .

“We expected more from Jonathan and many resu✃lts were not in line with our hopes.

“We are working hard, and well, to get back to the positions that matter and to be consistently on the podium, as we had done in previous🎐 years, an🌱d to help Rea regain the confidence he has lost a bit.

“Already at the end of the season we saw important steps forward: there will be cꦅhanges, we are working hard to try to get bac🃏k up".

Rea’s Yamaha team have also come💝 under scrutiny from their title sponsor.

The owner of Pata admitted he was “demoralised” by the struggles of l🤡ast year.

And even Rea has conceded that retirement briefly entere♏d his mind after his below-par Yamaha debut year.

But 🅠he will return for the WSBK 2025 year. He will ✅be 38 years old next month.