What poker for the Austrian house
No distinction between factory team and Tech-3 team: already in 2024 Pedro Acosta has a technical treatment that has nothing to envy to that reserved for Brad Binder and Jack Miller, but in 2025 also on a graphic level the four RC-16s will be almost identical e KTM landed two ninety shots on the rider market to challenge the Ducati Factory duo made up of Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia.
In fact, in addition to Pedro Acosta and Brad Binder, KTM will also field Enea Bastianini And Maverick Viñales, who will therefore leave Aprilia which has just snatched Jorge Martin from Ducati. Both will have official support identical to that guaranteed to Acosta and Binder. KTM has therefore decided to change its strategy compared to a year ago when it was on the hunt for a further satellite team. Now the Mattighofen company has decided to settle for four bikes, but to race ‘with four prongs’ and no longer deploy the GasGas brand.
With KTM, Vinales will be able to improve a record that in the MotoGP era belongs only to him. The Spaniard has won with three different bikes, Suzuki, Yamaha and Aprilia, and could win a caliph’s poker. For Bastianini it is a back to the origins: the Rimini native made his debut in Moto3 in 2014 riding the Gresini team’s KTM. Both have signed a multi-year agreement, in the case of Enea Bastianini it is a two-year agreement and in all likelihood Vinales has also reached an agreement until 2026. In 2027 everything will change in MotoGP with the arrival of the new rules and therefore also at the strategic for pilots it is perfect to have agreements valid until 2026.
