MotoGP ‘relieved’ KTM’s financial crisis saga is over

KTM avoids bankruptcy with major cash investment

Pedro Acosta, KTM Factory Racing, 2025 British MotoGP
Pedro Acosta, KTM Factory Racing, 2025 British MotoGP
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D🦩orna’s chief sporting officer Carlos Ezpeleta says it is “definitely a relief” that KTM’s financial cr✅isis has come to an end following months of uncertainty for the brand.

KTM has been navigating its way through a major financial crisis since late last year, which forced it into ꦦself-administration to try to𝓰 stave off bankruptcy.

In February, it had its restructuring plan appro🐟ved by creditors, with 30% of its over €2 billion debts to be repaid by 23 May 2025.

That deadliℱne came with KTM receiving a near €600 million investment from major shareholder Bajaj Auto, with the Indian brand to gain greater control of ไthe Austrian manufacturer as a result.

It’s unclear yet how all of this will impact the MotoGP project, though KTM has always insisted that the grand prix programme was unaffected by the financiꦆal problems.

Speaking on this, Ezpeleta told 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:ltxcn.top in an exclusive interview: “I’m not going to com♒ment on KTM’s shareholder structure because I’m not aware of it.

“But⛄ from what I’vꦏe been told, the structure itself right now continues to be what it was.

“Our comment is on how important KTM is for the championship ﷽and that it’s a relief that they’ve been relieved.

“KTM is definitely has racing in its blood and we’re just so happy tha👍t a brand that doesn’t have that sort of road racing heritage in 💃the top capacity.

“And I think that’s more and more the target that MotoGP is 🐠a platform for you to be able to promote your brand regardless of what you sell - not only Supersport bikes.

“They’ve done amazingly well in this first decade in the sp𓃲ort and it’s definitely a relief to know everything has been sorted out.

“We’ve been in contact with꧂ KTM in these months and they were always positive 👍about it.”

Despite KTM’s financial boost this week, there have sti꧒ll been rumours that it could pull its satellite support for Tech3 next season.

However, KTཧജM motorsport boss Pit Beirer told German media this weekend that these reports were completely false.

Beirer also noted in January that KTM hasꦆ been drawing up plans for the 2027 850cc reg🐟ulations change.

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