KTM Unveils New MotoGP Line-up and Bikes for 2025

With KTM’s full factory efforts in MotoGP spanning across both the Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Tech 3 teams, all four riders in the Austrian marquee’s line-up will share the same livery in 2025, as Enea Bastianini and Maverick Vinales have been unveiled for the first time.

Despite KTM’s ongoing financial struggles, its MotoGP project is going ahead in 2025 which means it's the first time in its history that all four of its riders will be sharing identical machinery, while Vinales and Bastianini’s KTM bikes receive the same colour scheme is also a first for Herve Poncharal’s Tech 3 squad.

Vinales and Bastianini are both new to the KTM project, however, they are multiple-time MotoGP race winners, while Binder and Acosta will share a  Tech3 garage for the first time. As a result of signing Vinales and Bastianini, KTM now has one of the strongest four-rider lineups on the grid and will be expected to challenge for wins from the outset.

Much has changed at KTM over the last few months due to the ongoing financial crisis it found itself in, although changes at the top of the management board and fresh investment from shareholders Bajaj Auto and CFMoto have helped steady the ship.

The MotoGP program appeared to be under threat during the tough period, however, it is continuing as normal in 2025, and the covers have been taken off the new RC16 for the first time.

Pit Beirer, KTM Motorsports Director, said: “There have been many questions but we have been clear since the last day of the 2024 season: we are here to race and we are very serious about success in this fantastic championship that spreads motorcycling and motorcycle racing to many corners of the world. 2025 has started strongly for us with the important Dakar victory and also winning in AMA Supercross, now it is a real pleasure to present our MotoGP teams and see our bike ready to race for the ninth year in a row.

“Competition is such a big part of KTM’s DNA and we are committed. For the coming season and with Brad, Pedro, Enea and Maverick as well as all the experience and knowledge in the pitboxes there is a lot of positivity and adrenaline to get started. This season could be massive for us, and I hope it will be.”

With a big reputation and the only rider ever in MotoGP to win with three different brands (Suzuki, Yamaha and Aprilia), Vinales will have high expectations on his shoulders in 2025, but the Spaniard is eager to get started.

“To wear the Red Bull KTM colors feels very good,” Vinales said: “Since I’ve been a kid I’ve seen them on motocross, on racing…so, it’s a dream team for me. My first thought of the KTM RC16 was: “wow, this is a beast, it’s fast!”. I remember in Montmelo it was very fast, and this is important in the new MotoGP era, as most of the races are the first five-six laps.

“The first year when you go to a new bike, you need to be always concentrated, always open to new experiences. Every time you go to a new track it’s a completely different experience from the previous years so you have to have an open mentality and be very focused, so my objective is to be focused and to be able to perform at my maximum.

“The good thing is that as soon as I jump on the KTM it feels like home. It’s a bike that I like, that suits my riding style, entering the corner. So, this is a very important thing.”

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