EXCLUSIVE - Maverick Vinales outlines his wish for next MotoGP contract

Maverick Vinales believes in KT🐬M’s longꦬ-term future

Maverick Vinales, Tech3 KTM, 2025 French MotoGP
Maverick Vinales, Tech3 KTM, 2025 French MotoGP
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Tech3 MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales believes KTM’s 2027 bike “will be good” and sees that year as “an opportunit🅷y”, while also looking to secure a new contract with the b♈rand.

KTM has faced an uncertain future since the company fell into a maj♔or financial crisis late last year.

On Thursday, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:KTM announced that it had ♈secured the funding it needed to fulfil its debt r♚epayment quota and ensure its survival.

There remains doubts about the long-term future of KTM’s MotoGP project, though its motorsport boss Pit Beirer noted in January th🐽at it was planning for the 2027 850cc regulations.

🤪In an exclusive interview with on Thursday at the British Grand Prix, Maverick Vinales has further suggested that♛ KTM’s project will continue beyond next year into the new rules cycle.

Asked if he considered the curre♍nt RC16 to be the best bike he has ridden, given his strong recent run of results, he said: “For me, not yet. I think 2027. It wiౠll be a good bike.

“For next year, it’s going to be hard to change because you cannot change the engine, even though 🎀I like the engine a lot. You cannot change the engin🍸e.

“You can change small things, but everything is froze💫n. It will be hard next year to do a bigger step. But for me, the big step will come in ’27 I think.”

KTM is yet to sign up for the new rules cycle with the champi🍸onship, while Vinales doesn’t have a contract in place beyond 𝐆next season.

But he says KTM has never expressed any doubt about the MotoGP project and he is looking to firm up a new contract with the⛦ braꦏnd for 2027.

“I know, but the team has decided to compete at the maximum level,” he added when KTM’s 🅺financial uncertainties were mentio💜ned.

“So, I never felt worried for the future beca♔use I always talked to them.

“We need to build up something amazing for t♏he future. They never said nothing different.

“They always accepted that in this kind of situat🐻ion they wil🔴l have to work pretty strong.

“But obviously I don’t even have a contract for ’27, but that is what’s on my mind and what I would lജike.

“I would like to do an amazi🍌ng bike. We have the potential. We have Dan♒i [Pedrosa], Pol [Espargaro], great technicians. So, we must do it. This is an opportunity.”

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