Pol Espargaró made his second wildcard look of the season in MotoGP on the Austrian GP. The rider competed in Spielberg with a distinct model of the RC16, whereas preparations for the 2025 season are already underway.
Quoted by the newspaper AS, the Spanish rider from Pink Bull KTM stated it’s nonetheless unclear if this would be the base for the 2025 bike: ‘We don’t know if this would be the prototype for subsequent 12 months, it’s one of many choices we’ve. We used one in Mugello and one other in Austria; it is perhaps a mixture of each’.
What is definite is that by racing on monitor, Espargaró was capable of collect extra information outdoors the testing context, in a growth course of he described as: ‘We attempt to collect as a lot info as attainable; it’s like a puzzle that’s slowly coming collectively’.
Naturally, KTM goals to realize titles in MotoGP, following its success in different disciplines from rallies to motocross. To do that, it might want to dethrone Ducati, which at the moment dominates the premier class overwhelmingly.