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Red Bull KTM Factory Racing has confirmed Jack Miller will race alongside Brad Binder for the 2023 and 2024 MotoGP season after signing the Australian on a two-year deal.

  • Jack Miller has signed a two-year deal with Red Bull KTM.

  • The Australian will race alongside Brad Binder for the 2023 and 2024 season. 

Jack Miller will leave the factory Ducati seat after two seasons after failing to register himself as a serious title contender with Francesco Bagnaia.

Miller will now replace Miguel Oliveira at KTM, with the latter set to return to Tech3 KTM as Raul Fernandez is expected to make the jump the Aprilia’s newly established satellite team, RNF Racing.

Despite only turning 27 in January, Miller has more than a decade of GP experience, including nine victories and almost 30 podiums in both Moto3 and MotoGP.

The Australian will also link up again with Francesco Guidotti, whom he has worked with for three of his eight years in MotoGP.

KTM’s Miguel Oliveira produced a sensational display on a soaking wet surface to win the 2022 Indonesia GP at Mandalika.

Despite starting at seventh place, the Portuguese rider wasted no time to overtake early leaders Fabio Quartararo and Ducati’s Jack Miller.

Quartararo then dropped to 5th place behind Suzuki’s Alex Rins before climbing up the pack to second and threatening to catch Oliveira.

However, Oliveria managed to keep his calm and claimed his first victory of the season with a comfortable margin of 2.2s.

The win at Mandalika was Oliveira’s fourth MotoGP win and his first podium since Assen 2021.

Meanwhile, Pramac’s Johann Zarco completed the podium at third place. The Frenchman had a late scare when trying to keep his lane during Quartararo’s pursuit for third place, as his GP22 had a bit of a slip before gaining control.

On another note, rookie Darryn Binder claimed a Top 10 finished at 10th place despite starting the race in 23rd place on the grid.

The 24-year-old South African gave his all in the wet and even managed to pass his brother Brad (Binder) before the two swapped places in the final lap, which saw Brad go up to 8th and Darryn dropping down to 10th and securing his first points of the season nonetheless.

Aksi MotoGP akan kembali hujung minggu ini di Misano dengan KTM merancang meneruskan rentak positif setelah merekodkan kemenangan di GP Styria menerusi Miguel Oliviera.

Miguel Oliveira

Bagaimanapun, Oliviera bingkas memberi penghargaan kepada pelumba uji, Dani Pedrosa dalam membantu menghasilkan jentera RC16 yang mantap bagi musim 2020.

Perkara itu turut diakui pesaing lain di kem kelas premier.

“Mereka telah melangkah kedepan, terutamanya sejak ketibaan Dani (Pedrosa) .

Cal Crutchlow

“Dia telah melaksanakan tugas yang baik menguji jentera KTM dan saya yakin dia antara punca utama KTM kini memiliki jentera yang mampu membawa mereka muncul juara,” jelas Cal Crutchlow yang pernah bekerjasama dengan pelumba itu ketika di Honda.

Oliviera (KTM Tech3) muncul pelumba KTM kedua musim ini untuk memenangi pusingan MotoGP selepas Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM) di Brno.

“Jentera ini menampakkan kemajuan ketara berbanding musim lepas. Dani (Pedrosa) telah memberi input penting dalam pembangunan jentera ini.

“RC16 ini lebih mudah untuk dijinakkan. Tunggangan lebih lancar dan seakan menyamai gaya Dani. Kerja kerasnya membuahkan hasil,” kata Oliviera.

KTM RC16

Sementara itu, kejayaan tiga kali naik podium musim ini bermakna KTM kini telah hilang konsesi teknikal sekaligus menghadkan jumlah litar yang dibenarkan untuk diuji Pedrosa dan Mika Kallio bagi musim 2021.

Bagaimanapun, bagi musim 2020, Pedrosa dan Kallio bebas menguji RC16 di sebarang litar tanpa sekatan.

Baru-baru ini, Pedrosa sertai pelumba uji Ducati, Michele Pirro dan Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia) bagi sesi ujian di Misano.

Have you ever wondered what it’ll feel like if you can get the chance to ride any of the race bikes competing in MotoGP, Moto2 or Moto3? When it comes to the intermediate class, there’s a new project between Red Bull KTM and Projekt Spielberg where you can do so with a proper Red Bull KTM Moto2 race bike! (more…)

Demikian kenyataan dikeluarkan pelumba Red Bull KTM, Pol Espargaro, selepas ujian pra-musim di Litar Antarabangsa Sepang berakhir hujung minggu lalu.

Bagi yang skeptikal, kenyataan itu mungkin agak tak masuk akal, meletakkan KTM dan Ducati dalam satu ayat umpama satu dosa besar.

Bagaimanapun, bagi yang menjadi saksi di SIC sepanjang ujian pra-musim, Espargaro berjaya merekodkan aksi konsisten – berada dalam kelompok 10 terbaik bagi ketiga-tiga hari.

Aksi konsisten itu meletakkan dia setaraf Ducati meskipun ketika hari pertama dan kedua, Espargaro merekodkan masa yang lebih pantas.

Malah, pelumba uji, Dani Pedrosa, berjaya merekodkan masa ketiga terpantas pada hari kedua ujian, dipisahkan hanya 0.090 saat berbanding Fabio Quartararo.

Kejayaan KTM merupakan hasil daripada pengeluar motosikal Austria itu mencurahkan segalanya dalam membangunkan jentera RC16 bagi musim 2020.

Pol Espargaro ternyata bakal tonggak utama KTM musim ini, musim lalu dia mempamerkan aksi memberangsangkan terutamanya memasuki separuh kedua musim 2019 sebelum mengalami kecederaan di Aragon.

“Ujian pra-musim kali ini satu kejayaan bagi kami dan saya sangat gembira. Kami berjaya kekal dalam masa 10 terbaik sepanjang hari ujian.

“Sebelum ini kami hanya mampu melakukan masa terpantas dalam satu lap tetapi kali ini kami konsisten mengekalkan catatan itu,” jelas Espargaro menurut GPOne.

Difahamkan, antara faktor utama yang membawa perbezaan kali ini adalah penggunaan enjin dan swingarm serba baharu.

“Swingarm baharu ini lebih baik daripada yang sebelumnya. Enjin serba baharu ini juga lebih berkuasa dan beraksi dengan baik secara keseluruhan, pengaliran kuasa juga sangat lancar dan ini membenarkan kami untuk memecut dengan lebih cepat,” tambahnya.

Ujian pra-musim akan bersambung di Litar Losail, Qatar sebelum saingan pembukaan tirai MotoGP 2020 berlangsung di litar sama pada 8 Mac ini.

Pelumba Petronas Yamaha Sepang Racing Team (SRT), Fabio Quartararo sekali lagi melakar masa terpantas di hari kedua ujian pra-musim di Litar Antarabangsa Sepang (SIC), hari ini.

Ini merupakan kali pertama Quartararo beraksi dengan jentera spesifikasi Factory YZR-M1.

Pelumba Perancis itu pada awalnya menghabiskan kebanyakan masa di kedudukan bawah sebelum melonjak naik dengan catatan masa 1 minit 58.572saat memperbaiki catatan semalam – 1’58.945s.

Sementara itu, wakil Pramac Ducati, Jack Miller kedua terpantas hari ini dengan +0.069 saat.

Bagaimanapun, keputusan mengejut berjaya dilakar kem KTM menerusi pelumba uji, Dani Pedrosa yang muncul ketiga terpantas dengan 1′ 58.662s.

Wakil Suzuki, Joan Mir yang menduduki tempat kesembilan semalam berjaya memperbaiki catatan masa pada hari kedua dengan 1’58.731s untuk menduduki tempat keempat.

Bagaimanapun, tumpuan terarah kepada kemajuan ditonjolkan KTM setakat ini dengan Pol Espargaro turut muncul lebih pantas hari ini berbanding semalam dan mengisi kedudukan kelapan.

Berikut keputusan penuh hari kedua:

  • KTM telah melancarkan ke semua pasukan Moto3, Moto2, dan MotoGP mereka bagi musim 2019.
  • Mereka akan tampil dengan dua buah pasukan dalam MotoGP, di mana kedua-dua pasukan ini akan menggunakan jentera yang sama.
  • Pasukan-pasukan ini adalah Red Bull KTM Factory Racing dan Red Bull KTM Tech 3 Racing.

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  • KTM has launched all their MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 teams for 2019.

  • There will be two teams in MotoGP, but both are using the same bikes.

  • They are Red Bull KTM Factory Racing and Red Bull KTM Tech 3 Racing.

KTM launched their MotoGP teams tonight. They are known as the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing and Red Bull KTM Tech 3 Racing teams, respectively.

The “all-in” event also included KTM teams, bikes and riders from Moto2 and Moto3 classes. Additionally, KTM is represented by two teams on factory machinery.

In one corner is the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team, with Pol Espargaro and Johann Zarco as riders. This team’s KTM RC16 uses the traditional Red Bull KTM livery.

In the other corner is the Red Bull KTM Tech 3 Racing team, with our boy Hafizh Syahrin and Miguel Oliveira as riders. Their KTM RC16 are finished in a new orange, blue and silver livery. Hafizh promised during the special press conference and meet the fans session during the Sepang Winter Test, that the new livery will be replicated on a special edition KTM RC390 in Malaysia.

Both teams will contest on the factory KTM RC16, as the manufacturer is eager to collect twice the data in half the time in developing the bike. Although it still needs much development as Zarco said, Europe’s largest motorcycle maker could not shake their excitement.

After all, KTM’s morale and determination took a huge boost when Pol Espargaro put the bike on the podium for the first time last season in Valencia. Meanwhile, the retention of veteran KTM test rider Mika Kallio and signing of Dani Pedrosa as the new test rider will keep the program rolling at a high pace. Unfortunately, Pedrosa broke his collarbone and is out for three more months. However, KTM are allowed concessions for testing and development under MotoGP rules. Making full use of this leeway, KTM brought out several engines with different specs at Sepang.

The new bikes will hit the track from 20th February. Until then, let’s just enjoy the photos of the RC16 from both camps. All photos are from KTM and published in MotoGP.com.

  • Toby Price telah memenangi perlumbaan Rali Dakar 2019 dengan pergelangan tangan yang retak.
  • Ini adalah kemenangan Rali Dakar keduanya sejak tahun 2016.
  • KTM telah memenangi perlumbaan rali ini buat kali ke-18 berturut-turut.

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  • Toby Price wins the Dakar Rally 2019 with a broken wrist.

  • It was his second Dakar win since 2016.

  • KTM has won at the rally 18thtimes in a row.

Speaking of broken wrists, Australian Toby Price won the Dakar Rally 2019 despite riding with that injury.

Price came into the 10thand final stage of the rally with a slender one-minute lead over Chilean Pablo Quintanilla. They had covered almost 5,200 kilometres up to that point.

However, Quintanilla crashed after a mere 10 kilometres into the 112-kilometre stage from Pisco to Lima. He injured his foot which cost him 19 minutes, dropping him to fourth overall. Quintanilla’s misfortune let Price romp home to win the stage win and the overall lead.

Price’s feat was heroic as he rode with a broken scaphoid. He had broken the bone a few weeks prior to the Dakar’s flag-off.

The Red Bull KTM factory rider had thought about just racing for two stages before pulling out. But he kept going as his team provided impeccable support in addition to some luck.

“Pretty much all I can say is that it feels like there are about five people driving a knife in my wrist now,” Price said. He had spent 10 agonising days of being jolted and bumped across the dunes and desert.

“It’s not very comfortable, it’s not very enjoyable. Now I’ll just wait and see what damage I’ve done to my wrist.”

It was Price’s second Dakar win since 2016, and KTM’s 18thsuccessive victory.

KTM Dakar 2019 bike – Photo credit Enduro21

 

  • Pada bulan Jun yang lalu, Dani Pedrosa telah mengumumkan bahawa dia akan bersara dari perlumbaan MotoGP pada penghujung musim 2018.
  • Dani, yang baharu sahaja memasuki usia 33 tahun, telah berjaya menaiki podium MotoGP sebanyak 33 kali, namun tidak pernah memenangi kejohanan dunia tersebut.
  • Pasukan Bull KTM telah merebut peluang ini dan mengambil Dani sebagai penunggang uji rasmi mereka bagi membangunkan jentera perlumbaan KTM RC16 mereka.
  • Dia akan bekerjasama dengan penunggang kelahiran Finlad, Mika Kallio.

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  • Dani Pedrosa announced in July that he was going to retire from MotoGP racing at the end of the 2018 season. 
  • Dani, who recently turned 33, has been on the Grand Prix podium over 33 times, but has never won a world championship. 
  • Red Bull KTM has stepped up and hired Dani as a official test rider to develop the KTM RC16. 
  • He will work alongside Mika Kallio. 

Dani Pedrosa may not have won a world championship but he has come pretty darn close a few times. There is no doubt that he is one of the best riders on the Grand Prix grid, so it was quite sad when he announced that he was going to retire at the end of the 2018 season (click here to read about Dani’s retirement).

But as with many great riders retirement does not mean the end of their careers, it is just the beginning of another great career, and for Pedrosa, that new career starts at Red Bull KTM.

The Austrian team recently announced that the current Repsol Honda Team rider will be the official test rider for the team’s MotoGP line-up in 2019 and 2020.

Pedrosa, who raced in the premier class for 13 seasons, will work alongside Mika Kallio to develop the KTM RC16, which has been competing in MotoGP for three years now.

Pedrosa who recently turned 33, has over 30 MotoGP wins and over 50 wins in all classes. He has three world titles but none in the premier class, and has been on the MotoGP podium over 110 times.

Source: MotoGP

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