Jonas Folger draws a line on his 2018 season

Jonas Folger, teammate of Johann Zarco at Tech3, takes the difficult decision to give up his MotoGP 2018 season due to health problems that have followed him since the last races in 2017. The German rider had undergone a whole battery of medical analyzes the last year following a big drop in energy initially attributed to a virus…

"I am immensely sad to say it, but I will not be racing in MotoGP in 2018", announces Jonas Folger a week from the. Johann Zarco’s teammate at Tech3, victim of a serious health problem, had to declare. "I haven’t recovered as I hoped, and at this point I don’t feel capable of riding a MotoGP machine 100%".

"I hope to be back one day"…

"I thank everyone, especially the Monster Yamaha Tech3 team, the Yamaha factory in Japan, Monster Energy, HJC, Ixon, the Forma Boots and Rudy Project", concludes the German rider who hopes "to be back a day"…

Yamaha salutes "Jonas’ honesty towards himself and the Tech3 team" by taking the decision to skip his 2018 season in order to be able to "recover with less pressure".

"I received a call last night from Bob Moore, Jonas Folger‘s personal manager", explains Herve Poncharal, and "I couldn’t believe what Bob was telling me on the phone, that Jonas would not be playing in the 2018 season. because he did not feel 100% recovered physically and mentally "…

"Hard to swallow"

"It’s still very hard for me to believe that he won’t be with us in 2018, because he’s someone I always believed in and I always thought we would reach the top level together this year ", continues the Tech3 team manager who" fully respects his decision, even if it’s hard to swallow ".

The boss of the French team will now "try to find a solution to have a replacement driver, which is a very difficult mission because all the fast drivers are already under contract. But as always in competition you have to be proactive and inventive, so I hope we can make someone very happy ".

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