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

Brad Binder (who has a “Factory Red Bull KTM contract”) and Pedro Acosta (who will repla🍨ce 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 the manufacturer four factory riders.

Broadcaster Simon Crafar wondered: “They have said the other garage will be KTM, meaning Herve’s side will be a factory-s🅺upported garage.

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

“Machinery-wise they have good machinery this season. Pedro has eve🗹rything, Augusto🦂 Fernandez pretty much has everything. But it’s not that.

“It’s personnel. And how the team is run behind the scꦫenes.

“It’s very clever - contract🌠s that say ‘KTM factory garage’ can now be in either gꦡarage…

“Another wꦜay to look at it; t🔥here 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 les🅘s🦩 so to the satellite team. If they can make it more attractive they can have four good riders, then put them wherever they want.”

Binder’s manager Bob Moore has previously to𝔍ld wuqi🌠an0821.com: “Brad has a contract with Factory Red Bull KTM.”

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

“So we ju🏅st look generꦛally at the four places, and try to make the best out of it.”

Binder is contra🌠cted to the m🥃anufacturer until the end of 2026.

Their 2025 line-up will interestingly provide them with former riders from Suzuki, Yamaha and Aprilia (Vinales) and Du♉cati (Bastianini), as well as KTM stalwart Binder and current rookie Ac🤡osta.

It means they will have a breadth of knowledge from MotoGP🎶’s other bikes.

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

“The crew chief translates what the rider means, so🦩 t🧔hey really get the information, without it getting lost in translation.”

Bin👍der 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 indi🍌cation of what our bike does well, and w♎hat 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 what to expect coming in, and what your references are💙.”