Jonathan Rea reunited with a familiar face as his 2024 Yamaha crew chief is confirmed
Six-time 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:WorldSBK champion Rea is leaving Kawasaki and will begin a new adventure🥀 with Yamaha, starting next week at a postseason tes🃏t.
Toprak Razgatlıoglu is leaving Yamaha to go to BMW, and will take his c♋urrent crew chief Phil Marron with him.
Rea’s 🐲current crew🔯 chief at Kawasaki, Pere Riba, is staying put despite the rider’s high-profile move.
That left Rea requiring a new crew chief at his new team - and fortu🌸nately the perfect candidate was already on the other side of the box.
Pitt is currentl♔y Andrea Locatelli’s crew chief but it has been confirmed by Yamaha that, next season,🌼 he will instead work with Rea.
Locatelli now needs a new crew♓ chief - Yamaha say they’ve got somebody lined up, but haven’t confirmed who it is.
Rea and Pitt were t🐽eam🐓mates at Hanspree Ten Kate Honda in 2008 in WorldSSP.
Yamaha Team Principal Paul Denning said: “I can confirm that Andrew will come across 𝓀to 🐟work with Jonathan.
“They’ve got a very close r꧑elationship that goes back many, many ye꧙ars.
“They’ve been teammates before but when Andrew was a riꦿder, noꦑt a crew chief.
“On top of that, we’ve got a very, very exciting crew chief coming to join th🌠e 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 Sk🧜y Sports for a de✃cade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
