Lewis Hamilton Holds ‘Concrete Talks’ With KTM MotoGP Bosses

KTM’s financial problems have led to drastic cost-cutting measures across almost all of the Austrian brand’s business units. And as we confirmed earlier this month, even KTM’s MotoGP project is not safe from being killed off.

For almost as long as we’ve known about this risk to the Moto3, Moto2, and MotoGP teams from KTM, we’ve also heard the rumours surrounding a certain Lewis Hamilton, and how it could be the now-Ferrari Formula One racer who is interested in saving the project.

It’s only over the Christmas period, though, that the confirmation came that KTM MotoGP boss, Pit Beirer, had been in what he described as “concrete discussions” with Hamilton’s management team according to Speedweek’s exclusive interview with him. Beirer even went as far as to state that Hamilton’s close ties with Monster Energy would not be an obstacle for the KTM team, which has long been closely associated with the energy drink maker Red Bull.

"Everyone who wants to work with us knows how close we are - Red Bull and KTM are inseparable. That has not been an issue in the negotiations so far," he said.

The news of these talks with KTM go against previous reports via GPOne.com, which claimed that Tech3 racing boss, Hervé Poncharal, had called the rumours “completely unfounded”, although he also refuted the idea that KTM’s MotoGP project was at risk, which was proved to be incorrect a few days later when the company handling KTM’s insolvency published its findings after holding preliminary talks with management.

Whether or not Hamilton does indeed become a full or partial team owner remains to be seen, although it does seem certain now that for KTM’s MotoGP racing exploits to continue they will now have to stand on their own two feet. To secure its future, the racing program will no longer be able to feed from the main KTM group, thanks to it going through deep-rooted financial problems as we move into 2025.