Pedro Acosta Left “Worried” About KTM MotoGP Future

Pedro Acosta’s future with KTM, after just one season together in MotoGP, is potentially not as secure as we would have expected as the Austrian brand’s financial troubles have resulted in a development freeze for 2025, and now a very worried young Spaniard.

Acosta moved from the GASGAS (rebranded to Tech 3 for 2025) team in order to join the factory Red Bull KTM squad alongside Brad Binder at the end of the 2024 season. It was a move that was celebrated and rightfully so as the Moto3 and Moto2 world champion was very deserving of his promotion just one year into his premier class career.

But KTM’s troubling financial woes, which have been getting worse and worse as self-administration was filed for recently; before its 50.1 per cent shares in MV Agusta also went up for sale, have shown no sign of slowing down unfortunately which could affect Acosta and the entire MotoGP program.

KTM has maintained that its racing project will go on without issues, but the development freeze is already a big setback and will likely leave them facing an even tougher task to close in on the likes of Aprilia, and most notably Ducati.

All Acosta, and any MotoGP rider, wants, is the chance to be riding a bike capable of winning, but that’s very much in question now, especially since KTM had done little winning over the last two seasons already.

Speaking on Motorsport.com’s Spanish podcast, Acosta’s agent Albert Varela added: "Nobody warned us of this possibility when we signed the contract in May. We were told that KTM was a giant with huge financial muscle, it was a complete surprise for us.

"It has not been easy news to digest. Fortunately, from what we are told, the project is going to continue in MotoGP, so there is no danger of having no bike for next year. What we are wondering is under what conditions we are going to be able to compete.

"In May we signed a contract with a winning project, with a company that was generating tens of millions of profit and with a clear message that they were in a strong position to be able to fight against Ducati.

"However, today this is not the case. Suddenly, in six months, everything has changed and we wonder what has happened. It is something that worries us and to deny the obvious would be absurd. I think we have to recognise it and be honest, and obviously, both Pedro and I, his family and his entourage, are concerned about the current situation."

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