KTM factory racers are facing a big fight for their future on the MotoGP grid given the brand’s financial woes, but Brad Binder can see more problems ahead.
Doubts persist over what presence. KTM Austria will have market autonomy in the world championship due to its entry. KTM currently plays a major role in the entire Grand Prix paddock MotoGPMoto2 and Moto3 categories.
But KTM are in financial trouble. Threatening their presence in MotoGP is the factory team with riders Binder and Pedro Acosta and satellite team Tech3’s Maverick Vinales and Innea Bastianini. KTM will field eight of the teams in Moto3 with their RC250GP bikes.
Brad Binder creates ‘critical issues’ for KTM to improve their MotoGP bikes
Prior to his move to Pramac, problems had plagued the Austrian manufacturer throughout the 2024 MotoGP season, dropping to sixth place in the teams’ championship. Their total of 304 points marks KTM’s worst season since 2021.
Binder secured the KTM factory team’s sole campaign podium with P2 at the first round of the year at the Qatar Grand Prix. Acosta will reach the Grand Prix podium five times in his rookie season running the GASGAS colors with the Satellite Tech3 team.
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So, if KTM is going to back down in 2025, Binder is desperate for the team to upgrade the RC16 bike. The factory team even left the team in 2024 as the search for upgrades came too late and adapting their package created more problems for the RC16.
“First we have to understand the bike and only then can we improve the areas we lack,” Binder said. GPON. “So it’s not necessarily a big step up, but it’s definitely a definite improvement in braking, cornering and handling. This is the only way we can make a difference.
“This year, for several reasons, we had to change the scale of the RC16 and this created critical issues because we did not notice any difference working in normal windows.
“So, we had to take a more radical approach, which took time. We managed to get a little more at the end of the championship.
Brad Binder needs a KTM to fix the RC16‘Issues after a bad year in MotoGP
Binder is looking to put the brand’s financial issues in the rear-view mirror for the works KTM MotoGP team, as well as take a step back, honoring his advice on where the 2025 RC16 needs to improve. The 29-year-old KTM man had the worst MotoGP promise yet in 2024.
The South African has ridden exclusively on KTM bikes since joining the Red Bull KTM Ajo Moto3 team in 2014, graduating to Moto2 in 2017, before moving directly to the factory KTM MotoGP team in 2020, with KTM also under contract. The time of 2026.
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But the issues KTM developed in trying to improve the RC16 in 2024 saw Binder fail to win a third consecutive grand prix, as well as taking one of the fewest podiums after taking one in 2021, but those aspects together make 2024 a bad year for Binder. In MotoGP.
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