It’s official: there will be an orange presence in MotoGP until 2031. KTM CEO Gottfried Neumeister divulges why the company must be on the grid in the biggest and fastest motorcycle racing series in the world.

It’s official: there will be an orange presence in MotoGP until 2031. KTM CEO Gottfried Neumeister divulges why the company must be on the grid in the biggest and fastest motorcycle racing series in the world.

Flexibility, conditioning, concentration…and balls; just some of the traits needed by MotoGP riders for a 44-race, 22-Grand Prix, 10-month season of action and speeds reaching nearly 370kmph. These athletes will crash on average 15 times a campaign (based on 2025 official figures) and will steer fine-tuned prototype machinery around a range of different circuits and weather conditions.