THE MOTOGP™ EYE OF EXPERIENCE
It takes a racer to see a racer and tell a racer: Mika Kallio holds a unique role in the company’s MotoGP™ Grand Prix project so we asked him about his work and how it helps the pursuit of success…
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KNOW THE 2023 MotoGP™ RED BULL KTM FACTORY RACING TEAM!
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Digest five stats and facts about the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team as the 75th (and longest ever) MotoGP season is now straining the circuit radar traps!
THE SEARCH FOR MINIMAL (AND CRUCIAL) MOTOGP GAINS
The MotoGP™ ‘pressure gap’ is even smaller than ever. It consists of fractions of a second when peak performance is already at the limit. We asked Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team Manager Francesco Guidotti about the difficulty of helping riders make the difference when they are already maxed-out…
A FLYING START IN QATAR
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The iconic lights of the Lusail circuit in Qatar have lit up the start of MotoGP™ 15 times in the last 16 seasons, and in 2022 we were excited to see a strong tinge of orange at the front of the field as racing got underway. An incredible race, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Brad Binder clinched second at the season opener in early March…
20 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT KTM’S MOTOGP™ FORCE THIS YEAR
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On March 6th 2022 MotoGP™ heads off into the warm Qatari night to open the 74th year of the FIM Grand Prix series. For KTM it will represent the sixth season on the MotoGP grid and with the RC16. Here are some facts and trivia about the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing and Tech3 KTM Factory Racing riders as the Losail International Circuit ‘launcher’ comes into view…
GROWING THE ORANGE: KTM AND RACING TALENT
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The KTM GP Academy is driving fresh and exciting talent into MotoGP™ in the same way that the KTM system of ‘product-discovery-support-nurture’ unearthed such rich results in motocross and MXGP. We asked two of the youngest and clearest examples – Jorge Prado and Rene Hofer – for their stories…
BRILLIANT BINDER’S WILD WET WEATHER VICTORY IN AUSTRIA
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KTM’s home track, the Red Bull Ring in Styria, Austria, recently played host to an incredible double-header for rounds 10 and 11 of the 2021 MotoGP™ Championship. The second of those race weekends saw one of the craziest races in recent memory take place, as the rain began to fall in the closing stages and flag-to-flag tactics came into play. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Brad Binder took a chance by staying out on slicks in the rain and carefully steered his KTM RC16 to a sensational victory…
WHAT IT REALLY FEELS LIKE TO GAS A WINNING MOTOGP BIKE
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Impossible lean angles and cutting-edge technology help towards one of the biggest rushes on two wheels but what’s it really like to throttle a MotoGP™ bike (and equal the highest ever speed in Grand Prix…)? We asked the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team for some insight…
5 (MOTOGP) THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT: RED BULL KTM FACTORY RACING
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KTM mark five years on the MotoGP™ grid in 2021, so to welcome the half-decade and the upcoming new season we dug up some trivia about the two Red Bull KTM Factory Racing riders, both products of KTM’s GP Academy system.
DON’T STOP! BRAD BINDER TALKS THE MOTOGP™ LEARNING CURVE
Among the many stories of the MotoGP year, Brad Binder’s rise from being more than two seconds off the pace in pre-season tests to a race winner is one of the brightest. We asked him about the adjustments he had to make to reach that incredible level…
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