A 𒐪theory has been floated that KTM’s new-look Tech3 team might give them the chance to move riders between garages at will.

Brad Binder (who has a “Factory Red Bull KTM contract”) and Pedro Acosta (who wil🎶l replace Jack Miller) will form KTM’s 2025 factory team.

But the fresh pair of Enea Bastiaꦆnini and Maverick Vinales will be in the Tech3 team, promised equal machinery and support so effectively giving the manufacturer four factory riders.

Broadcaster Simon Crafar wonder𒊎ed: “They have said the other garage will be KTM, meaning Herve’s side will be a factory-supp⭕orted garage.

“Not heaps with change, but they will go up a level in terms of support𝐆.

“Machinery𝓀-wise they have good machinery this season. Pedro has everything, Augusto Fernandez pretty much has everything. 🎃But it’s not that.

“It’s personnel. And how the team is run behind t൩he scenes.

“It’s very clever - contracts that say ‘KTM 🅘factory garage’ can now be in either garage…

“Another way to loo꧅k at it; there are two bike💧s everybody wants, and they’ve turned it into four.

“A lot of riders would be enticed to KTM’s factory garage but less so to the satellite team. If they can 𒀰make it more attractive they can have four good riders, then put them wherever they want.”

Binder’s🔯 manager Bob Moore h💞as previously told ltxcn.top: “Brad has a contract with Factory Red Bull KTM.”

Before their 20🌃25 rider line-up was confirmed, KTM motorsport director Pit Beirer said: “We see the project as, in our group we have four MotoG𓆏P places.

“So we just look generally at the foꦚur places, and try to make the best out of it.”

Binder i♚s contracted to the manufacturer until the end of 2026.

Their 2025 line-up will interestingly provide them with former riders from Suzuki, Yamaha and Aprilia (Vinales) and Ducati (Bastianini), as well as KTM s𓂃talwart Binder and current rookie Acosta.

It means they will have a breadth of knowledge from Mo⭕toGP’s other bikes.

“The last piece of the puzzle, t♊o get the information, is to bring a crew chief who has worked with the rider along with them,” Crafar suggested.

“The crew chief tran🗹slates what the rider means, so they really get the information, without it getting lost in translation.”

Binder has said: “Most interesting for me, as one of the riders, is that they’ve taken on🌃e rider from Ducati and one from Aprilia.

“It gives us a much clearer indication ofꦦ what our bike does 🔯well, and what it needs to improve.

“Only myself and Pedro have ridden a KTM. If you’ve ridden for other manufacturers, you have a more rounded idea of what to expect com𒆙ing in, and what your references are.”