KTM could field a new factory line-up in the 2027 MotoGP season, as Brad Binder Pedro Acosta is expected to join Ducati, but faces an uncertain future.
Acosta And binding Both are out of contract. KTM At the end of the 2026 season. But Austrian sailors are bracing themselves for the chance to join Acosta. Ducati Next year, the team is currently in no rush to lock Binder up long-term.
It is said that Acosta rejected Honda’s offer to sign with DucatiAnd now he will be transferred to Borgo Pangale on a two-year contract from 2027. KTM already has a replacement in mind, as well Maverick Vinales It is expected to rise Tech3 To the factory clothes.
KTM has already told Vinales that he will join their works MotoGP team in 2027.Also in October when discussing the future. Vinales impressed KTM bosses with his first results on the RC16 since joining Tech3 in 2025, before a shoulder injury derailed his campaign.
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Maverick Vinales welcomes Alex Marquez if KTM replaces Brad Binder in 2027
KTM may also want to replace Binder in 2027 Gresini Horseman Alex Marquez Now they pop up on their radar. According to GPONHe says KTM could be an option for the 29-year-old if he wants to join a factory MotoGP team for the next phase of his career.
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Ducati will give Marquez a factory-spec 2026 bike at Gresini In the year As a reward for finishing second to his brother Marc Marquez in 2025. The Cervera native, however, only has a contract with satellite team Gresini, and that deal expires at the end of 2025.
KTM appreciates what the younger Marquez brother achieved in 2025, and may now look to create an all-Spanish line-up with Vinales in 2027. Figueres-born Vinales will be happy to have Marquez as his KTM teammate in 2027 if the team chooses to replace Binder.
Alex Marquez has had the best season of his career in Brad Binder’s MotoGP career
Prove them wrong: KTM thinks Maverick Vinales is the perfect replacement for Pedro Acosta
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Binder believes that Vinales is a “trustworthy rider”. He has also backed the Spaniard to get better in 2026 after hiring Jorge Lorenzo as his performance coach. The three-time MotoGP champion supports the Spanish citizen in physical, strategic and technical aspects.
But if Binder wants to convince KTM to sign a new contract in 2026, he will have to do much better. Binder in 2011. He admitted that 2025 was the “hardest year” he had ever spent on a motorcycle After producing the worst season of his MotoGP career, that puts his KTM future in jeopardy.
Binder dropped to 11th on 155 points after failing to take his first Grand Prix podium of the MotoGP season. Acosta is the top KTM rider with 307 points in P4 in 2025, while Marquez is P2 with Gresini in one year at Ducati with 467.
as well as, Marquez got his first MotoGP Grand Prix victory at the 2025 Spanish GPAnd he finished the year with further victories in Catalonia and Malaysia. Only Marc Marquez has taken more victories than his younger brother, his mother, with 11 wins in 2025, and no KTM rider has taken a Grand Prix victory in 2025.
