Fabio Jakobsen deserted his closing race of the season on the Tour of Guangxi as a non-starter on stage 3, ending a tricky first yr at DSM-Firmenich PostNL during which he has solely managed one victory.
It has been a season of battle for Jakobsen stricken by crashes and sickness, with the Dutch sprinter not making it previous stage 12 at both of his key targets – the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France. Jakobsen has eight withdrawals amongst his 2024 outcomes, with right now’s DNS in Guangxi being his third from his previous six race days.
DSM-Firmenich PostNL did not particularly reveal the explanation why Jakobsen pulled out of his closing race of the season, nevertheless, the Dutchman had struggled within the first two levels, ending in forty eighth and 123rd, respectively, with out contesting both bunch dash and confirmed indicators of sickness.
“The workforce got down to go for it with Fabio Jakobsen within the finale. Nonetheless, throughout the stage Jakobsen indicated to the automotive that he wasn’t feeling so good, so the workforce switched their roles and guarded Casper van Uden as dash finisher,” learn DSM’s post-race report after day 1.
Jakobsen joined DSM-Firmenich PostNL from Soudal-QuickStep for the 2024 season, nevertheless, the partnership between Dutch quick man and Dutch workforce hasn’t been as profitable as they’d hoped, with their lead-out prepare not firing and their sprinter not performing.
The 28-year-old is contracted for 2 extra years at DSM-Firmenich PostNL till 2026.
“It was the whole lot collectively. Then you definately miss only a few per cent and you’re feeling that very laborious in top-level sport. I feel it could all be solved. Solely, you first have to search out out what it’s. I do know roughly myself, however after all not fully but,” stated Jakobsen of his points in 2024 to WielerFlits earlier within the season.
“Then it is working along with the individuals who find out about it with my very own feeling and perception as effectively after which it must be nice in the direction of subsequent yr. Finally, sprinting is the one factor I can actually do with the professionals, in the remaining I’ll all the time be one of many worst. However we need to win once more with that sprinting. Then we’ve to work on the whole lot.”
It is Jakobsen’s lowest win tally in a season since he turned professional with QuickStep in 2018, together with his sole win coming on the 2.Professional Tour of Turkey in April. He is twice been a runner-up in 2024, together with his greatest WorldTour end result being fourth on stage 1 of the UAE Tour.
In 2021, after he fought again to kind after a life-threatening and close to career-ending crash on the 2020 Tour de Pologne, Jakobsen miraculously managed six wins and three on the Vuelta a España.
With out Jakobsen, a six-time Grand Tour stage winner, being nowhere near his high kind, DSM have but to crack the highest 14 on a stage of the Tour of Guangxi and look unlikely to attain one other win and escape ending with their lowest WorldTour win complete because the WT was began in 2011.
