After a double podium at its home round in 2023, KTM had to make do with fifth place in last weekend’s Austrian MotoGP.
Brad Binder scored two second places in the 2023 Austrian MotoGP weekend across both the Sprint and main race, and so expectations were high for KTM’s home race in 2024.
However, the RC16 ultimately proved incapable of matching the Ducati Demsosedici over the course of a race, even the 2023 version of the Bologna bike in the case of Marc Marquez, who finished fourth after dropping to 14th at the start. TNT pundit and ex-MotoGP racer Michael Laverty felt that the performance of the Desmosedici was also having a mental impact on Binder, who ended up as the leading KTM on Sunday despite starting 12th.
“One thing we know about KTM, they’re winners, and they don’t look at that as a negative, they look at that gap and they’re just setting their sights on how to reduce that margin, how to be ready in 2025. For Laverty, it’s a case of time for KTM to find the improvements needed to challenge Ducati.
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