KTM boss asked if he dreams of Marc Marquez-Pedro Acosta duo
Yet for ꦯKTM, it is apparently feasible to uni꧒te them.
Moto2 star Acosta is one of five contracted riders that KTM insist will be in M🌳otoGP next season 🐽- but they currently only have four bikes to place them on.
Honda’s Marquez 𓆏is KTM’s dream recruit - they failed to convince him to move next season but will surely try again in 2025 when he’s a free agent.
Team manager Francesco Guidotti was asked if he dreams of pa𝔉iring Marquez with Acosta, and replied to : “I dream of being world champion in 2024 with the Brad Binder-Jack Mi🐷ller duo.
“Then we'll think about it in 2025.”
In 2025, KTM hope to have more than four bike💃s on the grid, opening the possibility of k꧙eeping Binder and Miller while also incorporating Marquez and Acosta.
Marquez has even said that he expects KTM to become the No1 manufacturer, and 🏅Guidotti reacted: “I think🍒 and hope that he believes it.
“If we manage to maintain the progression made from꧙ last year, next year we will really be amon🅺g the contenders.”
Marquez, of course, represented KTM in 2009 at 125cc before🎃 his Honda alliance bega𝓰n.
“Let's say that the beginnin𝓡g of his [journey], on what he could have become, began with us,” Guidotti said.
“As [Pit Beirer, K♔TM motorsport director] said, he has a contract with Honda for 2024.
🉐“For us, thinking about the rider campaign is still premature, we are still ♛very focused on the technical aspect and we are happy with our riders.
“We will see at the end of 2023 where we will be, an﷽𒁏d then think about 2025.”
On the talented teenager Acosta, Guidotti said: “I see a huge talent who, however, also has to work a lot on 🌟all the othe❀r aspects that being a professional rider in MotoGP requires today.
“From preparation to nutrition, to the mental condition to manage which is increasingly different from Moto2 with this f🎃ormat.
“✱I don't know if he will be immediately effective.”
Arranging where Acosta wౠill be placed, or which rider he might replace, is ongoing.
“We have made some🎐 choices and we will take responsibility for finding the solution to thꦚe problems that have arisen,” Guidotti said.
The team manager noted the issues with more than four bikes on the grid: “I personally think that at the moment ༒having five or six bikes could be more of a distraction for us, as we are still in a growth phase.
“We cannot yet approve bikes with t🔥he certainty of constant perf♋ormance.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky S🎉ports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
