first look: new KTM motoGP machine

https://motomatters.com/news/2015/10/30/ktm_rc16_motogp_bike_has_first_successfu.html

wonder if redbull will shift focus from F1 to motoGP after their shitfight with sourcing motors for F1 (imo they will end up with cosworth motors for that).

cheers.joe.

 

I still find it interesting that KTM is getting into motogp after killing off their superbikes. I guess they are hoping that motogp will sell a lot of rc390s

 

Red Bull.

 

MGP is a drop in the bucket compared to F1. I was hoping Red Bull would end up developing their own engine for F1, but the much accelerated pace in which they lost their supplier killed that dream. No way they can now build a competitive package on their own by 2016.

 

Well it does look like they are testing at the Redbull Ring in Austria in that video there

 

As for F1 and Red Bull, the EPA and that snitch killed off their engine supplier.

 

That cutting edge trellis frame. Did KTM hire the guys Gigi fired from Ducati? Serious question.

 

Pretty sure Gigi fired the guys who were designing the frame-less design instead

 

The same guys who designed the trellis frame before that. Not a bad design TBH. Just tough to make it as light as the perimeter frames and maintain stiffness.

 

Didn't Stoner win a championship with a trellis frame or was it already dumped by Ducati by then?

 

Running WP suspension you say...They've been killing it in Moto2!

 

Well at least it doesn't look like the same angular shit styling that looks like the kids who got fired from Cadillac did it.

 

When you own the company, you better run it.

Personally, I think Honda ditched most of their ownership in Showa so they could run Ohlins without armchair racers bitching.

-jim

 

Yamaha sold off most or all ownership in Ohlins.

Idiots!

 

Yes

 

Double Boner.

 

Im no Ducati historian but wasnt Preziosi the head engineer for all that mess?

 

Only thing is, as awesome as it would be seeing them in the premier Moto GP class, wasn't it the CEO of KTM who recently said they should stop making large displacement sportbikes?

So what demographic are they trying to market to with this?

 

I believe they said they saw no need for Unlimited class bikes on the street. They didn't say that they wouldn't build any.

 

Rossi and crew killed it