KTM wants to become a great protagonist in the MotoGP World Championship. The latest graft is another sign in this direction.
The hint had already been made recently, during the presentation of the KTM programs for the 2023 MotoGP season. The anticipation of the team manager Francesco Guidotti it has now been confirmed with an official statement signed by Mattinghofen. The Austrian brand is now betting on ben three testers to develop the MotoGP project. Next to the pillars Mika Kallio And Dani Pedrosa here it comes too Jonas Folger. KTM is therefore fielding a fearsome trio, which will be in action from tomorrow on the Malaysian Sepang track for the shakedowntest reserved for testers and beginners that precedes the official tests with all MotoGP riders.
KTM strengthens itself again
The Austrian house continues to prove that it hasn’t no joking in MotoGP. Of course there loss from the concessions it wasn’t a painless passage, big boss Pit Beirer remarked once again. But this happened to end 2020now KTM wants to step up and become a great protagonist of the MotoGP World Championship. Without Miguel Oliveiraa farewell that KTM would have liked avoidas Guidotti admitted, but with Jack Miller alongside Brad Binder. Not only that: they came from Ducati various technicians who have decided to embrace the challenge with the brand of Mattinghofen. Like Miller’s crew chief, Christian Pupulinbut also Alberto GiribuolaBastianini’s coach in 2022. Not to mention the team manager himself Francesco Guidotti and of Fabiano Sterlacchini, ex Ducati for years now in the ranks of KTM. Now another very, very new entry is official Interesting.
Jonas Folger, the new challenge
THE First contacts have already been there last year. The 29-year-old German, we recall, had a good career ahead of him, blocked however from important health problems in 2017, after a few races in MotoGP. The return to the competitive level was not difficultnow Folger is unemployed after just one year in WorldSBK. But KTM he’s been keeping an eye on him for a while, as demonstrated by i private tests months ago riding the RC16. Finally, here is the decision to team him up with Mika Kallio, who has been with KTM since the beginning of the MotoGP project, and Dani Pedrosa, who has given another significant boost to the test programme. The arrival of Folger, of a different age and build than his colleagues, represents a further addition of experience to continue progressing. From tonight until Monday morning the test riders and the only rookie, Augusto Fernandez, will open the ball for the 2023 MotoGP season. The young German will certainly be one of the special observers of the three days of shakedown.
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