After dissolving a 20-year partnership with Yamaha, French motorcycle racing outfit Tech 3 will join forces with KTM Motorsports for the MotoGP World Championship in 2019. Since rejoining MotoGP in 2012, competing in the Moto3, then moving up to Moto2, 2017 saw KTM Racing field the RC16 MotoGP race bike for a full season.
Currently fielding riders Bradley Smith and Pol Espagaro, KTM Motorsports will have a full roster of four RC16s on the grid, with the addition of Tech 3, with two-time Moto2 champion Johann Zarco, and Malaysian MotoGP rookie Hafizh Syahrin. With seven top 10 finishes MotoGP, KTM now has teams in all three MotoGP categories, along with the Red Bull Rookies Cup, which gives riders a clear career development path in the Motorcycle World Championships.
“We are very happy to join forces with Tech3 in MotoGP from 2019. The team has many years of experience and achieved a lot of great results in this championship. Their professional structure will make us even stronger. Having four KTM RC16 on the grid is also another big step for us, both for the development of our MotoGP bike and expanding KTM’s structure in the paddock,” said KTM Motorsport director Pit Bierer.
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Good news for KTM Malaysia.
I am very proud of our Hafizh Syahrin. He has worked hard to achieve this success. One of the very few who never asked for bantuan.
We are proud of you Hafrizh!
Again with this bollocks spiel. Never asked for bantuan? The what are all those sponsor stickers he wears?
Sponsors are not bantuan. Get your facts right, john
Sponsoring not equals bantuan. Err okays. Then what kinda bantuan he means?
As anticipated. This will be interesting as KTM is said to provide same works’ team specced RC16 even Tech3 is a satellite team.
The risk is that KTM is seem to still experimenting its way with its bike package. This can be seen in the RC16 2018 test times which somewhat slower than Johann Zarco’s best time. Let’s see if KTM has something up on its sleeve for the actual race.
Another point to ponder, with KTM Factory team is backed by Red Bull, will Monster Energy still back Tech3 for 2019 season?
KTM can experiment now. Tech3 only join in 2019 season, so still got time. BTW factory team is factory team and customer team is customer team, no problem there.
Zarco could also be joined next year by the current KTM’s GP proteges namely Miguel Oliveira or Brad Binder. The Yam M1 could suit Hafizh better, which means Hafizh could also end up with a Yamaha satellite team next year..
Kisah hafizh ni kontra betul dengan alex yoong.
Alex yoong memang betul dapat ‘bantuan’, tapi still tak boleh tahan, cannot up to a level of competition
Karamjit singh guna proton je menang rally. Proton!! Patut dah dapat datuk dah dia
AY – diberi bantu tapi tak menjadi jadi.
Para penunggang skarang – diberi bantu dan mereka naik meningkat ningkat.
But alex yoong did well after F1… I dont think this is a fair comparison….
Then he wasted most of his younger years and taxpayer monies doing a sport he wasnt gud at, instead of the one he is in now. Water skiing.