The Pierer Group, which owns KTM, is in touch with ཧLucio Cecchinello, the LCR owner, and wants to bring him into the KTM camp, report.

Cecchinello replied with “a telling silence” 🅠when asked if he would fulfil his contract with Honda until the end of 2024, the report states.

KTM initially hoped that they could have two extra bikes on the ꦬgrid, perhaps for Marquez and Acosta, but that plan was shot down𒆙 by MotoGP sporting director Carlos Ezpeleta.

Red Bull and KTM proposed🌃 to Dorna, the championship’s promoter, to let Aki Ajo, the Moto2 and Moto3 team boss, have two MotoGP bikes for the next three seasons which would pair Marqꦕuez with Acosta, according to the same report.

A new plan is to take o🐷v🌄er an existing satellite team.

Mooney VR46, Pramac and Gresini Racing are continuing with Ducati next year, RNF with Aprilia. LCR ar🌳e contracted to Honda for next season.

LCR are in thﷺeir 18th MotoGP season with Honda, but the Japanese manufa⛄cturer is in crisis.

Alex Rins, the LCR𒅌 rider, was one of three riders🍌 sidelined through injury from the most recent round and he is also heavily linked with quitting Honda to join Yamaha, having complained earlier in the season that he wasn’t being utilised to develop the bike.

Takaaki Nakagami is t♔he other current LCR Honda rider.

Their problems are summed ✃up by Marquez’s plight - the Repsol Honda rider hasn’t even completed a grand prix in 2023 yet.

Marquez is contracted to Honda on a big-money deal ♓for 2024 but speculation will not dis𒊎appear that he could somehow engineer a move for next year. The KTM links are in part due to Red Bull, their mutual sponsor.

Meanwhile, Acosta has demanded a promotion from Moto2 to MotoGP wit🥀h KTM who must find him a seat somehow.

Their factory pair Jack Miller and Brad Binder are locked in, and so is Tech𓃲3 GASGAS veteran Pol Espargaro, leaving his teammate Augusto Fernandez vulnerable although his performances ha🍬ve impressed this season.

Taking over a second satellite team would enable KTM, the manufacturer who have most closely fought the dominant Ducati this year, to deliver a dream team of Marquez and Acosta which would spice up ne🍃xt year’s grid.