© 2025, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. By Michael Gougis.
KTM will begin building its 2025 MotoGP race bikes on Monday and send them to pre-season testing and the first four rounds of the new season, the company’s MotoGP technical director said.
In a report published on speedweek. com, Wolfgang Felber, who took charge of the evolution of the RC16 after Fabio Sterlacchini’s move to Aprilia, states that the structure will be finished by the third week of January, like the oldArray itself.
The machines will be upgradeable and an upgrade from the 2024 models, and will be in the configuration seen in post-season testing in Barcelona, he said.
“As far as preparations for the new season are concerned, everything is currently going as normal. In recent years, we have trimmed all processes so that we build the new machines in the third week of the year. It will be the same in 2025 – next Monday we will start rebuilding all the motorcycles,” Felber told speedweek.com.
“Everything is planned so that by the end of the third week we will have the cards ready for the big cheque in Sepang. From then on, the bikes will remain on the road for a long time. The cars will return to Munderfing for the opening. of the European season in Jerez.
The report states that eight racing motorcycles will be built and shipped to Malaysia for the shakedown in Sepang, and then used for the remaining occasions and Grands Prix in Thailand, Argentina, Texas and Qatar.
“We are obviously talking about a scalable style in 2025. We have already had our own shakedown in the last tests in 2024. The 2025 edition worked as expected and the foundations were laid. The plan now is to build all the machines according to parts new,” says Felber.
Reports of the insolvency proceedings in Austria indicated that KTM planned to withdraw from Grand Prix racing, even before 2026. KTM said it planned to race in 2025, but with a reduced effort that reduces the amount of cash spent in the past. Felber says the racing branch remains committed to the 2025 effort.
“We are in the race. We have our brains, our computers, and our motivation. The last thing we want is to give up,” he says.
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