KTM sinks another blow to Ducati after the signing of Francesco Guidoti and Fabiano Sterlacchini. The Austrians buy four hands from Borgo Panigale.
At KTM we speak more and more Italian. The Austrian manufacturer boasts world titles in many of the two-wheel motorsport categories, but the class title is still missing MotoGP after his debut in this championship in the 2017 season. With Pol Espargarò, Miguel Oliveira and Brad Binder he has already achieved several podiums and victories in recent years, but this is not the goal of Mattighofen’s men.
The first big step was to cast Dani Pedrosa as a test driver, managing to exploit his experience in a project that started almost from scratch. The former Honda rider has made useful advice especially on the area of the frame, making it more flexible than the one originally designed in aluminum. But the rise of KTM didn’t stop there and recently accelerated on the gas handle. In 2021 they hired from Ducati Fabiano Sterlacchiniappointed new technical director, at the beginning of 2022 the former Pramac team manager, Francesco Guidotti.
KTM aims for the top of MotoGP
Two important pawns for the Austrian chessboard, certainly not the only ones. Because soon they will also arrive Alberto Giribuolacurrently chief engineer of Enea Bastianini, e Cristhian Pupulin, who will follow Jack Miller in the KTM factory garage. Four really important market hits for the orange house, which ensures other surprise hits for the technical staff. We also look at the Suzuki team, where other engineers could come from, and at the world of F1, relying on a long collaboration with the brand Red Bull active in the Circus for some time.
To the microphones of Sky Sport MotoGP Francesco Guidotti he did not hide KTM’s plans: “We are restructuring ourselves, we must change pace both in terms of quantity and quality of people. This (Giribuola, ed) is one of the many grafts, you will see that others will also arrive from other teams. We need a certain type of people because there were few of us and MotoGP requires attention to every detail“. We move from roughing to finishing, in a team that from the very beginning had the world championship goal very clear.
It remains to be defined the last free saddle for next year in the premier class and that of the KTM Tech3 team. On the one hand you will benefit from the return of Pol Espargaròanother important reinforcement for the rider line-up together with Jack Miller, on the other hand it could be the moment of Augusto Fernandez, fighting for the Moto2 title with the irrepressible Red Bull KTM Ajo team.
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