KTM is not only changing three of its four riders for next season but importing a pair of competitors, Pol Espargaro and Jack Miller, with experience of multiple MotoGP machines.
KTM may have unveiled a new fairing and wings at the Valencia MotoGP test but more aerodynamic developments are in the pipeline courtesy of a new partnership with Red Bull Advanced Technologies.
After seeing his last chance to avoid a winless MotoGP season slip away by 0.396s in the Valencia race, Brad Binder had a ‘ton of things to try’ when presented with a new KTM prototype at the following test.
With Sepang hosting the opening pre-season test of the year in February, this week’s Malaysian MotoGP offers the chance for riders and teams to gauge their progress since.
Outside the top ten on the opening day of practice at the Thai MotoGP, Brad Binder feels more is to come after brake pad issues and yellow flags halted his momentum in FP2.
Back on the podium for the first time since the MotoGP season-opener in Qatar, Brad Binder has called his second place finish at Motegi something ‘we needed desperately’.
Second for most of the Japanese MotoGP and on course to make it a Ducati 1-2, Jorge Martin was left frustrated after being picked off right at the very end by KTM’s Brad Binder.
A stunning opening lap at Aragon laid the foundation for Brad Binder to claim KTM’s best dry result since the Qatar season opener. But the corner characteristics of this weekend’s Motegi round might make things trickier.
Despite narrowly missing out on a podium at the Aragon MotoGP, Brad Binder delivered one of the best individual rides of the 2022 season to claim fourth.