Michael Ruben Rinaldi<\/a> told WorldSBK.com at the EICMA show in Milan.<\/p>\n\u201cI see myself not anymore fighting for the lowest positions on the grid and I didn\u2019t have the chance to have a strong package for next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo, I said to myself \u2018It\u2019s okay, sometimes life is like this\u2019. So, for sure in 2026 I will not be racing Superbike, even if I\u2019m still quite young because I\u2019m 29-years-old. But this is life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment, I don\u2019t know yet what will be my future because since I made the announcement I received many calls from different teams in different championships and that\u2019s something that I\u2019m happy about.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I will take my time to take a decision and we will see.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe the last race in Jerez was not my last race in Superbike, I don\u2019t know yet, but there\u2019s a strong chance that it was my last and the next time, if I come, I would be happy to come in a way that allows me to show all my potential. If not, it\u2019s okay like this; I\u2019m still happy and so grateful for what Superbike gave me.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the options that have been presented to him so far for 2026, Rinaldi said that some have been to race in different championships, while others would keep him in the World Superbike paddock in \u201ca different role\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe calls that I\u2019ve received are to race in different championships as a rider, but also inside the paddock with a different role,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat gives me a lot to think about because that means to stop racing at 100 per cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wish is to find something that can make me happy and I can stay involved in some way in motorsports because it\u2019s my passion since I was a child.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will see, I didn\u2019t take a decision yet so it will be two months that will be pretty busy for me and also for my future life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Ruben Rinaldi has indicated he had several options open to him in 2026 after announcing his retirement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,161113,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-277698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-michael-ruben-rinaldi","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}