A theory has been floated that KTM’s new-look Tech3 team might give them the ꧒chance to move riders between garages at will.

Brad Binder (who has a “Factory Red Bull KTM contract”) and Pedr🍰o Acosta (who wilꦦl replace Jack Miller) will form KTM’s 2025 factory team.

But the fresh pair of Enea Bastianini and Maverick Vinales will be in the Tech3 team, promised equal machinery and support so effectively giving tꦺhe manufacturer four factory riders.

Broadcaster Simon Crafar wondered: “They have said the other garage will be KTM, meaning Herve’s side will be a factor🐼y-supported gara💞ge.

“Not heaps with change, but they will go up a level in tꩲerms of support.

“Machinery-wise they have good machinery thi꧋s season. Pedro has everything, Augusto Fernandez pretty much has everything. But it’s not that.

“Iꦯt’s personnel. And how the team is run b🎃ehind the scenes.

“It’s very clever - contracts that say ‘KTM facto🌜ry garage’ can now be in either garage…

“Another way to look at🥃 it; there are two bikes everybody wants, and they’ve turned it into four.

“A lot of riders would be enticed to KTM’s factory garage but less so to the satellite tꦦeam. If t💜hey can make it more attractive they can have four good riders, then put them wherever they want.”

Binder’s manager Bob Moore has previously told mahbx.com: “Brad has a contract wit💜h Fa🎃ctory Red Bull KTM.”

Before their 2025 rider line-up was confirmed, KTM motorsport director Pit B🍬eirer said:♎ “We see the project as, in our group we have four MotoGP places.

“So w🌱e just look generally at the four places, and try to make the best out of it.”

♋Binder is contracted to the manufacturer until the end of 2026.

Their 2025 line-up will interestingly p𓆉rovide t🐼hem with former riders from Suzuki, Yamaha and Aprilia (Vinales) and Ducati (Bastianini), as well as KTM stalwart Binder and current rookie Acosta.

It means they w🍷ill have a breadth of knowledge from MotoGP’s o𝓡ther bikes.

“The last piece of the puzzle, to get the information, is to bring a crew chief who has worked with the rider along with them,” Crafar💫 suggested.

“The crew chief translates what the ride❀r means, so🧸 they really get the information, without it getting lost in translation.”

Binder has said: “Most interesting for me, as💝 one of the🌄 riders, is that they’ve taken one rider from Ducati and one from Aprilia.

“It gives us a much clearer indica𒀰tion of what our bike doe♛s well, and what it needs to improve.

“Only myself and Pedro🍷 have ridden a KTM. If you’ve ridden for other manufacturers, you have a more rounded idea of wha🐎t to expect coming in, and what your references are.”