Spanish MotoGP World Championship rider for RBA ROE Racing Team, Juanfran Guevara, announces his retirement from professional competition at the ripe age of 22. Guevara cites personal reasons as the main factor for his departure.
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Lorca, Spain – December 27, 2017 – Despite his passion for motorcycling, his years of work and his career, Juanfran Guevara announced his retirement as a professional rider. The reasons that have led to this decision have been well thought out in advance and are mainly personal. Guevara wants to thanks all the love received during his eleven years in the world of competition.
Juanfran Guevara:“It was a very hard and thoughtful decision that I made with the help, first of all, of my family, of all the directors of the Fan Club commission and some of the main sponsors who have supported me throughout this years. My passion for the world of motorcycling has not changed at all, but different economic reasons, and mainly personal ones, have given rise to this irrevocable decision.
I have decided to focus my career on the business world, studies that I have been combining all these years while racing in the Motorcycle World Championship. A point has arrived where I believe that in this way I will be able to grow more as a person and also dedicate more time to different projects that I have been developing over the last few years and that until now I have not been able to defend as they deserve.
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