© 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 upgradable 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 the preparations for the new season are concerned, lately everything is going normally. In recent years, we have reduced all processes so that we can build new machines in the third week of the year. It will be the same in 2025: next Monday we will start rebuilding all the bikes,” Felber told speedweek. com.
“Everything is scheduled so that at the end of the third week we will be preparing the pits for the big Sepang test. From then on, the motorcycles remain on the road for a long time. The cars will arrive at Munderfing for the opening of the European season in Jerez.
The report says that eight racebikes will be built and shipped to Malaysia for the shakedown in Sepang, then will be used for the remaining tests and the Grand Prix events in Thailand, Argentina, Texas and Qatar.
“We are obviously talking about an evolving style in 2025. A radically new technique was out of the question. We already had our own final shakedown tests in 2024. The 2025 edition worked as expected and the foundations were laid. The plan now is to build all the machines with new parts,” says Felber.
Reports from the insolvency proceedings in Austria indicated that KTM planned to withdraw from Grand Prix racing, even before 2026. KTM said it planned to compete 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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