Encounter KTM and you’ll likely to find the slogan ‘Ready to Race’ and it’s not a gimmick. Tony Cairoli is one of the most recognisable off-road motorcycle racers on the planet and the Sicilian has taken the last three premier class MX1 FIM World Championships on his four-stroke 350SX-F. Tony is ‘factory’ but exactly what would it take to have the same motorcycle as ‘222’? We grabbed five minutes with team technical chief Dirk Gruebel to find out what we’d need…
Sidecar racing can be an exotic and technically adventurous sport. Racing partnership Josef Sattler and Stefan Trautner stand out of the German IDM Sidecar field by using a KTM RC8 R twin as a rocket motor…
Catch some great footage from the first electric motocross race at Zolder in Belgium where KTM’s Stefan Everts was able to triumph on the Freeride E. Good stuff…
Less than a fortnight ago the Zolder circuit in Belgium hosted the first high-profile electric motocross race where the Freeride E held star billing just as much as Red Bull KTM staff like Stefan Everts, Ken De Dycker and British MX2 star Jake Nicholls. Everts would run out as winner in the five-lapper across a small and specially constructed track at the former F1 venue but we grabbed a few moments with Nicholls at the recent Grand Prix of Portugal to asked what he thought of swapping gas for wattage…
German Daniel Kartheininger suffers a sparkling spill (due to titanium scratching away) from his Moto3 KTM during practice at the second round of the German IDM at Zolder in Belgium. The young rider from Team Freudenberg escaped unhurt and on raceday finished on the podium in third.
Photo by Buenos Dias
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