Dominique Aegerter, Sandro Cortese and Kiefer Racing �♚�face an anxious Christmas after the team's takeover is reported to have stalled.

Viennꦜa-based investment banker David Pickworth was planning to acquire the team (with Russian backing) and secure a switch to KTM machinery for Moto2 next season.

But according to the deadline for a bank guarantee to the🎃 Austrian manufacturer has been missed, the final handover of Kiefer Racing is yet to take place and the whole project looks in jeopardy.

"I've had sleepless nights. I'm lo🤡st for words," Cortese is quoted as saying.

"I fell out of the sky when I✅ heard the news," added Aegerter, referring to the expired KT🐬M deadline.

: "I have not disappeared... I think it is better that we wait and let t💛hings play out... There are too many people with too little kno🧜wledge and too many opinions. We call it the Dunning-Kruger effect."

Do y🐷ou still see a chance to buy the team? "You’ll ཧneed to ask other people."

Back-up options include possibly placing Cortese at the SIC💫 Moto2 team, alongside Hafizh ꦛSyahrin.

Aegerter could remain at Kiefer, while KTM are still willing to build motorcycles should funding be found. If not Suter, the team's 2017 partner, is a possible&ꦑnbsp;Plan B.