Red Bull KTM Factory Racing launched the MotoGP™ project in 2015. Thanks to Francesco Guidotti for looking at 2025 and beyond.
2024 MotoGP news
The Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MotoGP team will come under new management for the 2025 season and the coming seasons. The company would like to thank Francesco Guidotti for his passion, knowledge and commitment to the game.
Francesco brings a proven track record to the 2022 works team and a second time in Grand Prix racing in KTM colours. For three years, he has overseen significant improvements in the team’s technical and athletic performance, and his easy-going and approachable personality has helped unite the staff across the board. He helped KTM to two Grand Prix wins and 12 podium finishes this season. Francesco led the team into the MotoGP Sprint era where 11 podiums and 2 victories were celebrated. In 2023, Brad Binder contributed to the company’s top championship as he finished 4th and KTM finished 2nd in the constructors’ standings.
For 2025 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing will enter their ninth campaign on the MotoGP grid and then enter a new chapter with the 2027 approach and revised technical regulations.
Pete Beyer, KTM Motorsport Director: “After three years with Francesco and many positive developments and methods, we are moving the team with a different management approach. Making these changes is not an easy process and we can warmly thank Francesco for what he has done in our MotoGP history. 2025 in this close and exciting sport.” It will bring some big moves to the entire program and we are now laying the groundwork for the next steps.
Plus, another press release from Red Bull KTM Factory Racing:
Aki Ajo is set to lead the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MotoGP™ team from 2025.
2024 MotoGP news
KTM will strengthen the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing MotoGP team for 2025 and beyond, reaching an agreement with long-time friend and partner Aki Ajo to take over as team manager.
The Finn dominated his own team, Ajo Motorsport, in Grand Prix racing for more than two decades and his official and rich spell with KTM began in 2012 when they claimed their first Moto3™ world title on the KTM RC4. Red Bull KTM Ajo has won two other championships in the class (2016 with Brad Binder and 2021 with Pedro Acosta) and has provided an ideal platform for the talents emerging from the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. Ajo’s Moto3 program has helped six riders move up to the MotoGP category.
In the year In 2017, Ajo expanded Red Bull KTM’s representation into Moto2™ and upgraded the KTM GP Academy in the Grand Prix pyramid. In the middle class, three more riders went to MotoGP and the crew claimed three consecutive titles from 2021-2023.
For KTM’s ninth MotoGP race with the KTM RC16 in 2025 and with riders Binder and Acosta in place, Ajo will now take up his duties as team manager. The knowledge of the company, its staff and racing, as well as its championship-winning philosophy, will take KTM’s MotoGP representation to the next level. KTM needs the last few performance percentages to continuously fight for the title and believe in KT’s spirit and organization to make that a reality.
The Red Bull KTM Ajo structure in Moto3 and Moto2 retains the same focus to develop some of the brightest prospects in the KTM GP Academy.
Company Note:- It is an honor to be given this great new role and opportunity to work with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing in MotoGP. At the moment MotoGP is at a very high level so we need to continue to work in many areas and use our strengths to build this KTM package to a better level. We have to keep pushing but I think this project already has many good parts to be right on very; We need to manage them better. Thanks to Stefan, Hubert, Pete and Jens and everyone in the KTM structure.
Pete Beyer, KTM Motorsport Director: “We have a special relationship and a very close cooperation with AK and therefore we felt that this was the best decision to move the MotoGP project forward. I have said it before and I will say it again: he believed in us when we organized in this paddock, so the trust and friendship is unparalleled. The success of the team speaks for itself. For 2025 He’s won trophies with both riders in the pitbox, but that knowledge comes with a lot of pedigree. We know that Aki knows our company and the way we ride. It’s a long history of taking on this challenge and having many great stories. I’m really happy and proud that we continue.
