Scott Ogden’s move from the MLav Racing༒ team to the CIP Green Power squad in the Moto3 World Championship also means a change of machiner🍎y for the British rider.

Ogden has spent his whole Moto3 career so far with the MLav team, run by former MotoGP rider and current TNT Sports pundit Michael Laverty, and on 🏅their Honda NSF250R machine, but in moving to the French CIP outfit he gets his first taste of the KTM RC4 GP, the CFMoto-badged version of which David Alonso rode to the 2024 Moto3 world title.

In his first test on the KTM at Jerez earlier in November, Ogden was able to♍ immediately feel the difference betwe♏en the two machines.

“The two Moto 3 bikes are incompa🃏rable,” Ogden wrote in an X p𓆏ost.

“They are different𝓰 in so many w🎀ays but not worse or better.”

He added: “My initial opinion was ‘Wow the ktm is so fast’. Especially in Jerez where we have a lot of sl🔯ow corners with hard acceleration zones, and ♊that was with an engine [that was] completely finished on its miles.

“The most difficult parಌt for me was the shif☂ting of gears. In the Honda you had to be super slow [when downshifting] to manage the revs.

“Whereas with the KTM it’s the opposite. You have to be supe📖r fast and try [to] get the revs high for the engine brake to work.

“The other key point is the aero on the KTM:♈ it’s a lot smaller tha꧑n the Honda. So, to stay tucked is much more important for keeping the speed.”