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♒ꦏ chief Wolfgang 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 th๊e company navigates its way through a financial crisis, which triggered a restructu♔ring process.

A report from the first creditors hearing also stated that 💞a withdrawal from grand priꦡx racing , though it will carry on as normal in 2025.

KTM’s racing division has also been 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:acting on a 100-point plan to cut spending amid the company’s current fi൩nancial troubles, which includes scaling back its factory involvement in various disciplines.

For 2025, it will field four factory꧃ KTMs in MotoG🦂P spread across its works team and Tech3 for Pedro Acosta, Brad Binder, Maverick Vinales and Enea Bastianini.

In an inter♒view with German publication , Felber offered a positive development on KTM’s 2025 ༒preparations.

“As far𝄹 as preparations for the new 𒁏season are concerned, everything is currently going as normal,” he said.

“In recent years we have trimmed all processes so that we build the new machi💮nes in the third week of the year.

“It will be the same in 2025. Next Monday w꧅e will start rebuilding all the motorcycles.

“Everything is timed so t⛦hat at the end of week three we pack the♋ boxes for the big test in Sepang.

“From then on the bikes are on the road💟 for a long time. The vehicles will only arrive in Munderfing again for the E꧂uropean season opener in Jerez.”

Theꦗre have been rumours already that KTM will not carry out any development on its 2025 bꦉike due to its ongoing financial crisis.

While Felber stops short of admitting this, he notes the 2025 prototype “worked as hoped” in testing last yea💮r and “has been defined” as the base bike.

“We are clearly talking about an evolution⭕ary modeꦿl in 2025,” he added.

“A radical n🥀ew approach was out of the question. We already had our actual shakedown during the last tes꧃ts in 2024.

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

“There are differences in the ergonomics, which are different for all 🧸riders, as well as in the solutions for oper💧ating the rear brake.

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

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