Jonas Folger returns as Yamaha test rider in 2019

While he had suddenly put an end to his career in Grand Prix because of a mysterious health problem, the German Jonas Folger, who rode at Tech3 until mid-season last year, will find Yamaha in 2019 as a test pilot.

Victim of Gilbert’s syndrome which causes in particular liver dysfunctions, Jonas Folger had to draw a line on his MotoGP 2018 season after a complicated 2017 season.

• MNC of January 18, 2018:
• MNC of July 31, 2018 :

After the 2017 Aragon GP, ​​his last race, the German took over the handlebars in Aragon (Spain) to test the new Triumph Moto2 engine, then in the Czech Republic during the IRTA tests but without specifying his plans for the future.

The director of the official Yamaha MotoGP team, Massimo Meregalli, has just announced that "yes, he is the one we have chosen even if it is not yet official. We have asked him to come to the tests in Aragon because he needs to learn and listen to the comments of the riders on the bike ".

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