After suffering a first winless season in MotoGP, Brad Binder is confident 2023 will be his ‘best opportunity’ yet as he targets a top three place in the world championship.
If Aprilia can continue its upward MotoGP trend following the loss of technical concessions, it will be the first manufacturer not to take a step back the following season.
KTM’s decision to drop Iker Lecuona at the end of the 2021 season may have been controversial but the Spaniard’s two seasons in MotoGP paved the way for him to ‘shine’ as a factory Honda World Superbike rider.
Jack Miller’s KTM move sets up the possibility of the Australian making history as the first rider to win ‘MotoGP’ races on three different brands of bike.
KTM's motorsports director Pit Beirer does not believe that batteries are the ‘near future’ of motorcycles over 125cc and would resist any move to introduce hybrid engines into MotoGP.
Jack Miller says he can’t wait to try the new MotoGP Sprint races, which have been added to the Saturday schedule for all 21 rounds of the upcoming season.
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.