Marc Marquez has explained why he said that KTM will soon become MotoGP’s best manufacturer, but his words will send the rumour mill into overdrive.
Ahead of the Austrian MotoGP this weekend - the home race for KTM and Red Bull, who separately sponsor both KTM and Marquez - the rider made high-profile comments about the team he is linked to joining.
Marquez was on a TV show alongside Pit Beirer, the KTM motorsport director, in a scene which has only stoked rumours that they are set to join forces.Marquez was asked in Austria why he publicly claimed that KTM would become the No1 manufacturer, and he answered: “All manufacturers have the same ambition, to be the best.
“It looks like, in these past years, the European manufacturers were faster with their steps in development.“But it’s true that KTM is in an aggressive mode to take engineers, to find the best for their project. They have a European style - if the left side is the best, they go to the left, if the right side is the best, they go to the right. This is a competition.
“I had good words to KTM. Not because I was pretending, but because when a rider is doing a good job, you say. When a manufacturer is doing a good job, you must say. “The evolution of KTM last year was good. In the past Ducati’s evolution was good, and also Aprilia’s. We need to focus in our box to understand what they did better, to copy or even to improve.”
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