PICS: Pol Espargaro debuts radical KTM swingarm wings

Strikin♎g new aero appears on the rear of Pol Espargaro's KTM during Friday practice in Austria.

Pol Espargaro, swingarm wings, 2024 Austrian MotoGP
Pol Espargaro, swingarm wings, 2024 Austrian MotoGP

After a poor run of recent events, KTM has brought a range of upgrades for wild-card 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pol Espargaro at the factory’s home Austrian MotoGP.

The most visible are some radical swingarm-mounted wings, which appeared on the side of Espargaro’s RC16 during Friday morning’s opening practice at the Red Bull R♏ing.

Should the swingarm wings prove a success, they could be used by the KTM race riders this season since they are mounted outside of the homologation  'Aero Body' areas🙈.

Thꦰe Spaniard also has a new exhaust and, it is rumoured, a revised engine specification♈.

While full-time KTM race riders aren't able to change engine design during the season, wild-card🌜s (Espargaro or Dani Pedrosa) can race with different engines due to🍃 the factory’s ‘C’ concession ranking.

The same applies to Aprilia, which has a wild-card entry for Lorenzo Savadori this weekend. Only Honda and Yamaha, currently on a 'D' concession ranking, are free to change eng🅺ine design for their race riders.

The new KTM parts made a posꦗitiveꦗ first impression.

Espargaro, who has recently tested at the Red Bull Ring track, fastest during the early stages of FP1 and 🎐ultimately only outpaced by the Pramac Ducatis of title leader Jorg♚e Martin and team-mate Franco Morbidelli.

Pol Espargaro, swingarm wings, 2024 Austrian MotoGP
Pol Espargaro, swingarm wings, 2024 Austrian MotoGP

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