The♊ Austrian manufacturer has enjoyed a breakthrough MotoGP season where they often been the closest challenger☂s to the dominant Ducati.

And there is bold talk of expansion from KTM who continue to be linked with Marc Marquez, and who also plan to increase their presence with eꦉxtra bikes on the grid.

The one stain on ♔their rise might be Oliveira - who won five grandsᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ prix with their satellite and factory teams, but left last year after refusing to go back to Tech3 when he lost his factory seat.

“With great regret, having to send away a fast rider like Oliveira, not having found🌜 a compromise” team manager Francesco Guidotti told was his most radical change. 

“However, it was necessary💮 to change, because with four riders with only KTM experience we had entered a difficult to manage loop. 

“W💝e needed someone with a different experience to help us understand the problems. 

“The luck was that 🌳Jack Miller confirmed what we already thought. 

“We had already taken a development path that pr𓆉oved to be right. 

“And instead of small steps, we have begun to take important steps 🙈forward.”

Mil♏ler, who came from the factory Ducati team, has added invaluable experience to KTM.

The overall feeling🧜 is that they are a manufacturer heading in 𓆉a positive direction.

“🔴In Mattighofen in 2021 they understood that they had to change gears, so they implemented a program of change,” Guidotti explained. 

“I'm glad they chose me, but this change comes from a decision made a✱t the top.

“As in any discipline, if y💛ou want to improve you have to hire people who are experts in that field. 

“But the credit for the progress is not only mine, there was a company that understood th🍬at it was tim🌜e to change pace, to move from a management in which, starting from scratch, had to shoot at random. 

“And then, having reached a ce▨rtain level, structure everything better, focusing on the details.”

Fabiano Sterlacchini and Alberto Giribuola arrived🦂 on the engineering side, while Miller brought his crew chief Christian Pupulin.

“It is clear that to grow yo🐭u have to look at who is the refe🦹rence,” Guidotti said. 

“I don't think it was a problem for Ducati, because🎃 for the level reached today I think the organisation of the single person matters more. 

“Which is what the Japanese method was a bit like, if we wan🌊t to make a comparison, such a well-tested system where even by changing people the gear turns well. 

“Here in KTM, the process had to be speeded up, it's logicꦜal that they went fishing in the paddock.”