KTM motorsport director Pit Beirer has pledged to avoid a repeat of last year’s ‘uncomfortable s👍ituation” where the factory signed five MotoGP riders but only had four seats.

The situation was triggered by the meteoric rise through the lower grand prix classes by Pedro Acosta, meaning the teenager was “knocking on🐻 the door” of MotoGP “one or two years earlier than we expected”.

Jack Miller was forced to ༺publicly defend his contractual status amid mounting speculation that Acosta would take his fac🧸tory KTM.

After enquiries for a fifth MotoGP🐽 grid place were rebuffed, Tech3’s Pol Espargaro was eventually persuaded to make way for Acosta by stepping down🎶 to test and wild-card duties.

But with most of the MotoGP grid - including a certain Marc Marquez - out of contract🎀 at the end of this year, and only Brad Binder officially confirmed in orange for 2025, might rider signings again prove a hot topic fo KTM?

“Let’s hope 🧔our boys stay healthy and perform like we all wish and then maybe it’s not even that stressful, because we stick to the four boys like we have now,” Beirer revealed.

“I don’t feel the same pressure coming up right now like🐲 we had with Pedro, a guy jumping through the disciplines like crazy and then knocking on the door [of MotoGP] one or two years earlier than we expected some time ago.

“So I feel for the moment we have a great package of four riders and we can now watch a bit carefꦬully what’s going on in the market.

“I can promise you one thing: I will not sign a rider number five unless we have a third team [in MotoGP 2025] or one of the boys wants to ཧleave us.

“Of course, we brought ourselves into that uncomfortable situat🐟ion [last year] and all of your guꦅys followed closely why, what and everything around this topic.

“It g🦹ave us a crazy headache and I don’t want to go through thiꦜs scenario too often!

“But I feel at the moment we a🐼re not in t🗹he front row to make a big change because we believe in the riders we have.”

Although KTM’s 2024 MotoGP rider ‘headache’ was resolved amicably, Pit Beirer confirmed the factory has not given up on trying to acquire more grid places by finding a second satellite team alongsi🐼de Tech3 (GASGAS).

“Some contracts are up so some teams are loo🍌king for a manufacturer,” he said.

“This discussi🍰on is on now but also not that simple because if people are happy, why do they need to change? So it’s not decided, but we listen to everybody ༒and we are discussing.”