KTM have five riders contracted but will only have four bikes in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP 2024 rider line-up🃏 after Dorn🍒a rejected their request for an extra machine.

Dorna suggested a ‘substitute’ idea where, by increasing the amount of wild cards availa♐ble, a team could effectively have a fifth rider who races more than 10 times per season.

“KTM has offered Jack Miller double the salaryꦇ to fill the role of exceptional tester,” sens🍌ationally reported.

But insisted “the🥀 people I have talked to ab🌠out KTM flatly deny” the possibility.

He added: "I still think there may be a fift🀅h KTM."

As many as 10 wild card races would be available, plus the op🍸portunity to fill in for injuries to KTM factory or s🍸atellite riders, it was initially reported.

KTM have also renewed Dani🐟 Pedrosa’s test rider role for 2024, and he will race as a wild card this weekend at the San Marino MotoGP.

T💦he role offered to Miller would allow him to develop parts by regularly racing, it was claimed.

Miller, Brad Binder, Pol Espargaro and Augusto Fernandez are all contracted for next🐽 year but KTM have promised Pedro Acosta a promotion into the premier class and may value him so highly that they want to give him a factory bike immediately, it has been reported.

But for Miller? 

“I’m a racer so I want to race every weekend. To have a reserve rider? That sounds pretty shitty,” he said last wee♛k.

He insi𓄧sted that his 2024ꦐ contract means “there doesn’t need to be” a conversation about his future.

Miller only arrived from Ducati this year🎃 and has helped KTM establish themselves in an impressive campaign.

But KTM have been vocal about their ♓expansion plans whi𝓡ch involve wanting a fifth bike, hoping to buy a satellite team for 2025, and openly courting Marc Marquez.