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    MotoGP is the fastest, most prestigious, and most-watched motorcycle racing contest around the globe. 2025 marks the 76th year of the FIM Grand Prix Motorcycling World Championship and is set to feature another exciting season with 22 rounds. The 2024 campaign was watched by over 3 million people at the circuit fences. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing has been part of the MotoGP elite since the start of 2017. In 2024, the team secured 2nd place in the Constructors’ Championship, highlighting the strength and potential of the KTM RC16. Looking ahead to 2025, four riders will represent KTM colors across the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing and Red Bull KTM Tech3 teams, forming a strong KTM rider line-up. With Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta in the Factory Racing team, and Enea Bastianini and Maverick Viñales joining the Tech3 team, KTM is set to make a powerful impact on the grid. As the team enters its ninth season in MotoGP, the commitment to innovation, performance, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible remains stronger than ever. The 2025 championship promises to be an exhilarating journey, with KTM striving for new milestones in the world’s premier motorcycle racing series.

    2025 KTM MotoGP™ Team Presentation

    2025 KTM MotoGP™ Team Presentation

    Brad Binder

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    2022 – 6th FIM Grand Prix World Championship MotoGP 2021 - 6TH FIM Grand Prix World Championship MotoGP 2021 - MotoGP Race Winner - Austrian Grand Prix 2020 – 11TH FIM Grand Prix World Championship MotoGP 2020 – MotoGP ROOKIE of the YEAR 2020 - MotoGP race winner in his third race on the KTM RC16 2019 - FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto2 RUNNER-UP 2018 - 3RD FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto2 2017 - 8TH FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto2 2016 - FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto3 Champion on KTM 2015 - 6TH FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto3

    Pedro Acosta

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    ABOUT PEDRO Pedro Acosta is known to be a promising talent in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. Starting his career at a young age, Acosta quickly made a name for himself by winning the Pre-Moto3 Spanish Championship in 2017. In 2020, he clinched the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup title, showcasing his potential on the international stage. The following year, Acosta made a sensational debut in the Moto3 World Championship, becoming the first rider in Grand Prix history to finish on the podium in his first four races, including a remarkable victory at the Doha Grand Prix after starting from pit lane. He went on to secure the 2021 Moto3 World Championship title in his rookie season, solidifying his status as a rising star. Acosta progressed to the Moto2 category in 2022 with the Red Bull KTM Ajo team. Despite facing challenges, including an injury that caused him to miss two races, he finished the season with three victories and was named 'Rookie of the Year.' In 2023, he dominated the Moto2 class, claimed the World Championship title with two races to spare, becoming the youngest intermediate class champion since Dani Pedrosa in 2004. In 2024, Acosta made his MotoGP debut on the KTM RC16, showcasing his adaptability and skill in the premier class. For the 2025 season, he joins the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team, ready to build on his impressive debut and compete at the highest level.

    Enea Bastianini

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    BEST RESULTS: FIM ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / SELECT FIM HARD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACES 2021 - FIM ENDURO2 WORLD CHAMPION 2020 – SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION 2020 – ENDURO GP OF PORTUGAL 1 DAY 2 E2 & ENDUROGP WINNER & ENDURO GP OF PORTUGAL 2 DAY 2 E2 & ENDUROGP WINNER 2019 - 6TH WESS ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2019 - ISDE E1 CLASS WINNER 2019 - SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION (E1 AND OVERALL) 2018 - SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION (E1 AND OVERALL) 2017 - 1ST ENDURO2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2017 - 1ST ISDE E1 / 1 ST OVERALL 2016 - 3RD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP EJ 2016 - 1ST SPANSIH ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP E1 / 2ND OVERALL 2016 - 1ST ISDE E1 / 3RD OVERALL

    Maverick Viñales

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    BEST RESULTS: FIM ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / SELECT FIM HARD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACES 2021 - FIM ENDURO2 WORLD CHAMPION 2020 – SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION 2020 – ENDURO GP OF PORTUGAL 1 DAY 2 E2 & ENDUROGP WINNER & ENDURO GP OF PORTUGAL 2 DAY 2 E2 & ENDUROGP WINNER 2019 - 6TH WESS ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2019 - ISDE E1 CLASS WINNER 2019 - SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION (E1 AND OVERALL) 2018 - SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION (E1 AND OVERALL) 2017 - 1ST ENDURO2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2017 - 1ST ISDE E1 / 1 ST OVERALL 2016 - 3RD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP EJ 2016 - 1ST SPANSIH ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP E1 / 2ND OVERALL 2016 - 1ST ISDE E1 / 3RD OVERALL

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    MOTO2™ & MOTO3™

    KTM is one of only three brands in the FIM Grand Prix Motorcycling World Championship to have an extensive racing presence through all three divisions - Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP – and with distinction. Moto3 is the foundation level in Grand Prix and KTM boast five Championship titles – three achieved with help from long-term partner Red Bull KTM Ajo in 2012, 2016 and 2021 and two in 2013 and 2020. KTM have accumulated almost 90 wins with the KTM RC4 since owning the very first Moto3 championship in 2012. In Moto2 KTM extended their unbeaten run of rider and team championships to three consecutive years thanks to Pedro Acosta and the Red Bull KTM Ajo squad. Moto2 has provided a crucial route for talent to make a break in the MotoGP category. Since 2018, Brad Binder, Augusto Fernandez, Miguel Oliveira, Remy Gardner and others have all come through KTM Moto2 efforts to enter MotoGP pit boxes.

    MOTO2™ RIDERS

    Deniz Öncü

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    BEST RESULTS: 2023 – 4th FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto3 2022 – 5th FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto3 2021 – 11st FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto3 2021 - 11TH FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto3 2020 – 17TH FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto3 2019 - 12TH FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship 2019 - 35TH Moto3 World Championship (5 Races) 2018 - RED BULL MotoGP Rookies Cup RUNNER-UP

    Collin Veijer

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    BEST RESULTS: FIM ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / SELECT FIM HARD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACES 2021 - FIM ENDURO2 WORLD CHAMPION 2020 – SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION 2020 – ENDURO GP OF PORTUGAL 1 DAY 2 E2 & ENDUROGP WINNER & ENDURO GP OF PORTUGAL 2 DAY 2 E2 & ENDUROGP WINNER 2019 - 6TH WESS ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2019 - ISDE E1 CLASS WINNER 2019 - SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION (E1 AND OVERALL) 2018 - SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION (E1 AND OVERALL) 2017 - 1ST ENDURO2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2017 - 1ST ISDE E1 / 1 ST OVERALL 2016 - 3RD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP EJ 2016 - 1ST SPANSIH ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP E1 / 2ND OVERALL 2016 - 1ST ISDE E1 / 3RD OVERALL

    MOTO3™ RIDERS

    Álvaro Carpe

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    BEST RESULTS: FIM ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / SELECT FIM HARD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACES 2021 - FIM ENDURO2 WORLD CHAMPION 2020 – SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION 2020 – ENDURO GP OF PORTUGAL 1 DAY 2 E2 & ENDUROGP WINNER & ENDURO GP OF PORTUGAL 2 DAY 2 E2 & ENDUROGP WINNER 2019 - 6TH WESS ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2019 - ISDE E1 CLASS WINNER 2019 - SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION (E1 AND OVERALL) 2018 - SPANISH ENDURO CHAMPION (E1 AND OVERALL) 2017 - 1ST ENDURO2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2017 - 1ST ISDE E1 / 1 ST OVERALL 2016 - 3RD ENDURO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP EJ 2016 - 1ST SPANSIH ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP E1 / 2ND OVERALL 2016 - 1ST ISDE E1 / 3RD OVERALL

    Jose Antonio Rueda

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    ABOUT JOSE José Antonio Rueda seamlessly adapted to KTM Moto3 machinery in 2022, clinching both the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and the FIM JuniorGP titles—a historic first. This exceptional performance secured him a seat with Red Bull KTM Ajo for 2023, where the teenage rookie achieved 11 top-ten finishes and a maiden podium at Catalunya, finishing 9th overall. In 2024, Rueda continued to impress, notably securing his first Grand Prix victory at the Aragon GP, becoming the 400th different Grand Prix winner in history. He concluded the season 7th in the standings, demonstrating significant growth. As he turns 20 in October 2025, Rueda embarks on his third Grand Prix campaign, poised to leverage his experience and talent for further success. ACHIEVEMENTS: 2024 – 7th FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto3 2023 – 9th FIM Grand Prix World Championship Moto3 2022 – Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup CHAMPION

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    KTM GP ACADEMY

    The KTM GP Academy was created as a talent filtering system to identify, support and nurture some of the brightest prospects from development series like the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, the Northern Talent Cup and the Austrian Junior Cup through the learning process of Moto3 and Moto2. The factory-run structure is established with the close cooperation of key teams and partners such as Red Bull KTM Ajo and Red Bull KTM Tech3 with the goal of eventually elevating an athlete onto the MotoGP grid. Names like Brad Binder, Augusto Fernandez, Miguel Oliveira, Remy Gardner and more have all made full steps through the KTM GP Academy while Pedro Acosta has won two titles in just three seasons of Grand Prix competition. KTM’s expanding culture in MotoGP, the presence of different models of machinery and valued collaborators such as WP Suspension mean that individuals in the KTM GP Academy are very familiar with the technology and ethos of the company to evolve and chase their dreams.

    KTM NEWS

    Viñales tops MotoGP™ Aragon test as Red Bull KTM picks up pace for 2025 development

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    Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, Red Bull KTM Tech3 and the factory’s test crew used the excellent weather and diverse challenge of MotorLand Aragon to grab more data, information and ideas for refinement of the KTM RC16 today. The second one-day official test of the MotoGP season took place right after Sunday’s Aragon Grand Prix and Maverick Viñales, was fastest by the end of the session with the fastest ever two-wheeled lap of the circuit KTM’s MotoGP push has been making progress in terms of overall competitiveness through the eight Grands Prix so far and the first test at the Circuit de Jerez at the end of April. In the wake of Pedro Acosta’s 4th place finish at MotorLand on Sunday and with three of the four KTM RC16s making it directly through to Q2 as well as showing top five pace through the 23-lap GP race, the riders took to the Spanish asphalt again today. Acosta, Brad Binder, Maverick Viñales, Enea Bastianini and Pol Espargaro combined circulated the 5km layout almost 300 times as they worked on chassis configurations, aerodynamic proposals and more theories for the future direction of the race bikes. The fastest lap-times from the long schedule of work placed Viñales in P1 with an Aragon milestone. The Spaniard hit the reference on his penultimate effort. Acosta was just three tenths of a second adrift and sat 5th on the day with Binder in P11 and Bastianini P15. The Red Bull KTM Factory Racing test team will be running more laps at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for two days in a private session this week while MotoGP will gather in the paddock of Mugello for the Grand Prix of Italy and round nine next week. Maverick Viñales, Red Bull KTM Tech3, 1st: “Positive day and we worked very hard for improving the bike in terms of turning. We achieved this, and it’s a ‘plus’ for the next races. Now we need to understand if we will homologate this next aero package: I feel good with it but also with my standard one. We want to check and see. It was important today to keep at the same level and to keep riding and improving. I’m really happy with all the teamwork.” Pedro Acosta, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, 5th: “Happy. Without trying any time attack we were quite faster than in qualifying last weekend. We touched a lot of the aerodynamic areas that we thought could help but it can be quite hard to understand this in just one day or with a few laps. Let’s see if we can develop more this week and the test team can also help. We have to be happy because the bike made a step.” Brad Binder, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, 11th: “Today we ran though many aero configurations and it took time to get a sense of them all. We had some solutions that helped turning, some for more grip…each item changed certain areas. There was a lot between all four of us and now the test teams will go through it and will try to build each rider a package. Such a busy day throwing many things onto the bike so now we need that full check for the best options.” Enea Bastianini, Red Bull KTM Tech3, 15th: “Many different aero options. This morning, I worked a lot with this, and I was satisfied because it helped us for wheelie, acceleration and a bit for entry of the corners. We tried something for the set-up in the afternoon but nothing really worked when I put the soft tire. Some things were simple, like the fairing, but we need more time with other things. Maverick was very fast today and I think we can be competitive like him but I have the same issue: with the old tire I can push and not with a new one.” Aki Ajo, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team Manager: “For sure a busy day and many things to try but our test team is also working this week in Barcelona so we were able to experiment and make some priorities but then also file some others for later work. Quite a lot of aero, different downforce packages with a view to the second homologation phase, and suspension and, so far, some promising things. We need to analyze before making decisions for the future and we’ll close some short-term solutions as soon as we can.” Sebastian Risse, KTM Technical Director MotoGP: “The end of another intense test and after the Grand Prix here in Aragon it’s clear we wanted to make another step and get the bike better quite soon. We were working mainly on the aero side and also some chassis components. We really tried to get a broad picture of many items through all four MotoGP riders and we achieved it. We found some positives. Now we need to analyze the data and see how we can put it together in the fastest possible time frame.” Aragon official test final times 1. Maverick Viñales (ESP) Red Bull KTM Tech3 1:45.694 2. Marco Bezzecchi (ITA) Aprilia +0.006 3. Marc Marquez (ESP) Ducati +0.132 5. Pedro Acosta (ESP) Red Bull KTM Factory Racing +0.335 11. Brad Binder (RSA) Red Bull KTM Factory Racing +0.951 15. Enea Bastianini (ITA) Red Bull KTM Tech3 +1.411 21. Pol Espargaro (ESP) Red Bull KTM Factory Racing +2.340

    AARON PLESSINGER CONTINUES 450MX PODIUM FORM AT THUNDER VALLEY

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    Red Bull KTM Factory Racing's Aaron Plessinger raced to a hard-fought third-place finish in Round 3 of the AMA Pro Motocross Championship at the Thunder Valley National, earning his second-consecutive 450MX podium result. Colorado began with Plessinger posting the second fastest qualifying time, before powering his KTM 450 SX-F FACTORY EDITION to the front group of Moto 1 out of the gates. After briefly making a late pass for the race lead, ‘The Cowboy’ would reach the checkered flag with a convincing P2 result. Another strong start in Moto 2 saw Plessinger in the mix with the front-runners once again, navigating ultra-technical track conditions to claim fifth position, and third overall for the weekend. He's also currently positioned third in the 450MX standings. Aaron Plessinger: “That first moto was a lot of fun and I was really amped! I didn’t feel fatigued after that one, and then I made a small bike change going into the second moto, which I should have just left alone. That was on me, and I struggled that second moto, but it was just a good day. I had some really good lines in the first one, but being in the battle and making passes on those guys is all I can really ask for. Back to work this week – we’ll come back next weekend looking for that elusive win.” Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Tom Vialle posted a consistent performance at the third round of 250MX competition, racing his KTM 250 SX-F FACTORY EDITION to sixth position in the opening moto. A P5 ride in Moto 2 on a deteriorating track was enough for fourth overall, and an important haul of championship points. Tom Vialle: "I ended up with fourth overall today, which wasn't ideal because I just wasn’t feeling it on the track. I was running third in each of the motos, then ended sixth in the first one after a small crash, followed by P5 in Moto 2. I just didn’t have the feel that I needed all day, so we’ll keep working for next weekend in High Point and make some improvements.” 250MX teammate Julien Beaumer experienced a challenging day out at Thunder Valley onboard his KTM 250 SX-F FACTORY EDITION. He showcased his speed throughout the races, however, a fall during each outing kept him out of front-running contention. A 17th-place score overall via 16-14 results has him now sitting P7 in the standings. Julien Beaumer: “Not a good day at Thunder Valley. I crashed both motos and that pretty much sums up my weekend. The result doesn’t show how I am riding at the moment, so we’ll regroup and come out swinging at High Point.” Next Race: June 14 – High Point, Pennsylvania Results 450MX Class – Thunder Valley National 1. Jett Lawrence (Honda) 2. Eli Tomac (Yamaha) 3. Aaron Plessinger (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) 7. RJ Hampshire (Husqvarna) 8. Malcolm Stewart (Husqvarna) Standings 450MX Class 2025 after 3 of 11 rounds 1. Jett Lawrence, 145 points 2. Eli Tomac, 120 3. Aaron Plessinger, 118 6. RJ Hampshire, 87 11. Malcolm Stewart, 60 Results 250MX Class – Thunder Valley National 1. Chance Hymas (Honda) 2. Haiden Deegan (Yamaha) 3. Levi Kitchen (Kawasaki) 4. Tom Vialle (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) 6. Casey Cochran (GASGAS) 14. Ryder DiFrancesco (GASGAS) 17. Julien Beaumer (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) Standings 250MX Class 2025 after 3 of 11 rounds 1. Haiden Deegan, 144 points 2. Jo Shimoda, 119 3. Chance Hymas, 95 5. Tom Vialle, 85 7. Julien Beaumer, 81 10. Casey Cochran, 64 17. Ryder DiFrancesco, 43

    Acosta closes on MotoGP™ podium potential with 4th place in Aragon as Öncü wins in Moto2™

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    Pedro Acosta scorched to a P4 finish at a steaming MotorLand Aragon today for the eighth round of 2025 MotoGP. The Spaniard blazed around the slick asphalt in eastern Spain for the Grand Prix of Aragon and for his second top five result of the season. The event was also notable for Alvaro Carpe claiming 3rd in the Moto3™ outing and Deniz Öncü’s amazing Moto2 success.