Defiant KTM to begin building 2025 MotoGP bikes despite money headache

KTM to start building 2025 MotoGP bikes next week

Pedro Acosta, KTM Factory racing, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP test
Pedro Acosta, KTM Factory racing, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP test
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KTM technical chief W🧸olfgang Felber says “everything is currently going as normal” regarding KTM’s preparations for the 2025 MotoGP season.

The Austrian firm faces an uncertain future in MotoGP as the company navigates it📖s way through a financial crisis, w🦹hich triggered a restructuring process.

A report fr🌄om the first creditors hearing also stated that a withdrawal from grand prix racing , though it will carry on as normaജl in 2025.

KTM’s racing division has also been 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:acting on a 100-point plan to 🦂cut spending amid the company’s current financial troubles, which includes scalingꦅ back its factory involvement in various disciplines.

For 2025, it will field four factory KTMs in MotoGP spread across its work♐s team and Tech3 for Pedro Acosta, Brad Binder, Maverick Vinales and Enea Bastianini.

In an interview with German publication , Felber offered a positive development on KTM♑’s 2025 preparations.

“As far as preparations for the new season are concerned, everything is currently going as norma൩l,” he said.

“In recent years we have trimmed💦ꩲ all processes so that we build the new machines in the third week of the year.

“It will be the same in ♔2025. Next Monday we will start rebuilding all the motorcycles.

“Everything is timed so that at the end of week three we pack the boxes for the 🍸big test in Sepang.

“From then on the bikes are on the r🔯oad for a long time. The vehicles will only arrive in Mund🐲erfing again for the European season opener in Jerez.”

There have been rumours already that KTM will not carry out any development on its 2025 bike due to its ongoing fi💖nancial crisis.

W﷽hile Felber stops short of admitting this, he notes the 2025 prototype “worked as hoped” in testing last year and “has been definꦯed” as the base bike.

“We are clearly ta꧒lking about aꦇn evolutionary model in 2025,” he added.

“A radical new approach was out of the question. We already had our actual shakedown during the last tests ﷺin 2024.

“The 2025 version worked as hoped and the basis has been defined. The plan now is to build ♛all ma𒐪chines accordingly with new parts.

“There are differe♒nces in the ergonomics, which are different for all riders, as well as in the solutions for operating the rear brake.

“We can als☂o take over some existing parts with low mileage. It doesn't make sense to throw away a handlebar stub that is onlꦑy a few kilometres.”

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