Jonas Folger lands Ioda ride

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German rider Jonas Folger has announced he will now be racing this season, with the Ioda Racing Project in Moto3.

The winner of last season's British Grand Prix 125cc race at a soaked Silverstone had found himself demoted to the role of substitute rider in the MZ team after they lost a parts supplier to bankruptcy and announced the need to make budget cuts, with Folger finding himself on the receiving end.

This had spurred him on to find a new ride for the upcoming season, with the Ioda ride becoming possible and finalised in time for the upcoming testing at Jerez.

Folger confirmed the news on his official Facebook account “ Today we go to Jerez for the IRTA test! Will test the bike for three days for Ioda Racing and hope I can catch up the training backlog and it all runs smoothly”.

The 18 year old put in a solid performance last season for the Red Bull Ajo Motorsport team, finishing the season sixth overall with three podiums, including his Silverstone win.

The IRTA official test at Jerez is the final test before the season starts and the first for the lower classes to feature official timing.

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Financial problems in the MZ, Jonas Folger without a bike

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The insolvency of a supplier with inevitable delays in the production of the scooter Emmely EL2 Hybrid have compelled the MZ , glorious German company revived in 2009 by Martin Wimmer and Ralf Waldmann (left the scene in the management company), to review programs Sport in the World Championship.

Trying to save the situation, specifically the use of 20 of the 56 MZ employees, has lost his place in the team Jonas Folger ( crash.net pictured ), winner last year at Silverstone between the 125cc, expected at the start of World Moto3 under the banner "MZ Racing Team" with a motorcycle developed, based on Honda, just by MZ.

Downgraded to "test", Jonas Folger remains under contract (you do not know until when) with MZ as the first alternate for every need of the two race drivers Alex Lundh (with an FTR Moto2) and Toni Finsterbusch (in conjunction with the Moto3 Racing Team Germany), remained on the team thanks to the personal sponsors.

The young German driver had reached an agreement with MZ in November 2011 after having played even a "competition test" in Moto2 CEV at Jerez de la Frontera. This past February, Jonas felt a Honda Moto3 of MZ in Valencia, saltanto the next official test session at Jerez, the first inkling of the budget problems of the German formation.

Currently MZ is present in an FTR Moto2 World Championship in Sweden entrusted to Alex Lundh and sponsored by Cresto Guide, while in Moto3 MZ confirmed the partnership with Racing Team Germany in the wake of Toni Finsterbusch. Jonas Folger remains, here at Losail, just over a month to find an accommodation in the Championship.

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Jonas Folger at the start with a Honda MZ

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Seemed destined to Moto2, but in the end Jonas Folger decided to stay for another year in the "entry class" in the World Championship. Next season will see the promising German driver, who won at Silverstone this year with Aprilia RSA Motorsport Hague, at the start of a Honda Moto3 MZ prepared by the team of Martin Wimmer, with the passage already sure to Moto2 for 2013 with the same team.

" For me it was important to run with MZ and can count on a successful project: Moto2 Moto3 or not makes no difference , "said Jonas Folger German TV broadcaster Sport 1. " For this reason I will compete in next season Moto3 and at the same time, I will try to best prepare for the Moto2 ahead of 2013. Will no doubt be an unusual year. "

Folger, a product of the nursery MotoGP Academy, it was revealed in 2009 in his first full season in the 125cc class with Aprilia World Wide Race winning an amazing 2 nd place overall at Le Mans. Filed a difficult 2010, Jonas figured well this year with the Red Bull colors within the Ajo Motorsport team, but was unable to compete for the title.

Jonas Folger had recently tried the FTR Moto2 precisely the MZ Ricardo Tormo racetrack in Valencia, playing the last test in Jerez Moto2 CEV, except in favor of the optical Moto3 2012 with a Honda fielded by MZ Racing Team . Teammate Toni Finsterbusch the previouslx announced (star IDM 125, 11 th year at Sachsenring as a wild card) to be specified instead of the drivers for MZ Moto2.

source: BikeRacing.it

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