KTM says it is looking closely at the forth👍coming changes 🍸to the World Superbike Championship regulations as it evaluates whether to join the series in the coming years.

The Austrian manufacturer has a rich heritage in motorsport, particularly in motocross and the entry-level grand prix classes, but its Superbike experience has been limited to a brief - albeit successful - stint 𝓰in the German-based IDM Superbike Championship.

Title winners in 2011 with a full-factory backed RC8, KTM has previously signalled its intentions to join the World Superbike Championship, but has shied away due to costs a💜nd a lack of cohesion with other domestic series.

However, with World Superbikes set to adopt new regulations aimed aꦆt cutting down costs over the next few years, KTM CEO⭕ Stefan Pierer says the manufacturer would definitely jump at the opportunity to compete in the production-based series over graduating to MotoGP.

"If you look at the coming decade then I think MotoGP is no෴t so interesting for us because so much money is needed and I cannot see any gain from a big outlay" he said. "Only Marquez is the fresh thing in this segment. Without him I think it would be the most boring class. For me there is no challenge there.

"In Superbike it is a bit different. If the rules come down to visible and affordable levels and the bikes are close to a standard product and without the minimum quantities rule then we would think about it. That's clear. Some changes are on the way [for WSBꦺ] ꦿand it is in a good direction.

"At the moment [Superbikes] is linked to quantities of sales and the rules were not stable in terms of costs for racing. What would be important for Superbike is having the sam🐈e technical rules, whether it is world, AMA or Germany...similar to motocross. 🍸It becomes interesting then.

"We have some ideas but I don't think [a KTM WSB team will happen] for the next two or three years. We are looking closely at the reg🤡ulations and the organisation."

Having won the IDM Superbike Championship in 2011, KTM withdre🍨w to focus on its return to grand prix racing in 2012 with an immediately successful foray into Moto3. Though Pierer rules out MotoGP as a viable direction for the manufac💮turer, he says moving into the Moto2 intermediate class is a possibility.