Tech3 MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales believes KTM’s 2027 bike “will be good” and sees that year as “an opportunity”, while also looking🥂 to secure a new contract with the brand.

KTM h෴as faced an uncertain future since the company fell into a major financial crisis late⛄ last year.

On Thursday, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:KTM announced that it had secured t🦂he funding it needed to fulfil i𓄧ts debt repayment quota and ensure its survival.

There remains doubts about the long-term future of KTM’s MotoGP project, though its motorsport boss Pit Beirer noted in January that it was planning for the 2027 8✱50cc regulations.

In an exclusive interview with on Thursday at⛄ the British Grand Prix, Maverick Vinales has further suggested that KTM’s project will continue beyond next year into the new rules cycle.

Asked if he considered the current RC16 to be the best bike he has rid෴den, given his strong recent run of results, he said: “🧜For me, not yet. I think 2027. It will be a good bike.

“For next yꦓear, it’s going to be hard to change because you cannot change the engine, even though I like the engine a lot. You cannot change the engine.

“You can change small things, but everything is frozen. ♔It will be hard next year to do a bigger step. But꧋ for me, the big step will come in ’27 I think.”

KTM is yet to sign up for the new rules cycle with the championship, while Vinales doesn’t have a contra🌺ct in place beyond next season.

But he says KTM has never expressed any doubt about th🐓e MotoGP project and he is looking to firm up a new contract with the brand for 2027.

“I know, b♚ut the team has decided to compete at the maximum level,” he added when KTM’s finan🌠cial uncertainties were mentioned.

“So, I never felt worried for the future because I✱ always t🎉alked to them.

“We need to build up somethi꧅ng amazing for the future. They never said nothing different.

“They always accepted that in♛ this kind of situation they will have to wor🅘k pretty strong.

“But obvioꦐusly I don’t even have a contract for ’27, but that is what’s on my mind and what I ꦰwould like.

“I would l𒆙ike to do an amazing bike. We have the potential. We have Dani [Pedrosa], Pol [Espargaro], great technicians. So, we must do it. This is an opportunity.”