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KTM made its debut in MotoGP in 2017 with a manufacturing facility entry earlier than increasing to a satellite tv for pc construction in partnership with Tech3 from the 2019 marketing campaign.
In its six seasons within the premier class, KTM has scored six victories between Miguel Oliveira and Brad Binder.
However KTM nonetheless languishes behind its European rivals in Ducati and Aprilia at the moment in MotoGP, with the latter approaching massively during the last two seasons with its RS-GP.
Aprilia’s success has been pushed largely by the arrival of CEO Massimo Rivola in 2019, who – having beforehand served as sporting director at Ferrari in F1, in addition to holding roles with Toro Rosso and Minardi – formed his group by hiring expertise from F1.
Particularly, Rivola put in F1 engineers to assist with the event of MotoGP’s key technical battleground in aerodynamics and tyre degradation.
Presently, Aprilia sits third within the constructors’ standings behind Yamaha and is second within the riders’ championship with Aleix Espargaro on 168 factors, whereas KTM’s main runner is seventh-placed Brad Bunder on 107 factors.
KTM chief Pierer has been impressed by Aprilia’s method and plans to observe go well with by utilising the Austrian model’s shut hyperlinks to power drinks large Pink Bull from 2023.
“Aprilia included F1 expertise,” Pierer instructed Motorsport.com.
“The brand new boss [Rivola] could be very good; I like him so much. He got here from F1 and introduced with him quite a lot of expertise on the aerodynamics stage.
“I’m very joyful that in 2022 there might be three European producers in opposition to two Japanese, on condition that Suzuki is leaving.
“I really like that there might be competitors between the European producers. I wish to beat the Japanese manufacturers, it is so simple as that.
“Subsequent yr we’re going to enhance our dedication to workers coming from F1.
“Fortunately, we now have a long-standing relationship with Pink Bull, which is a successful group, so we all know which door to knock on.
“Pink Bull has tons of of aerodynamics technicians with quite a lot of expertise. That might be one of many keys in 2023.”
Pink Bull is at the moment dominating the 2022 F1 season with reigning world champion Max Verstappen, whose latest Belgian Grand Prix victory has put him 93 factors away from team-mate Sergio Perez within the standings.
Sergio Perez, Pink Bull Racing within the storage
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