Enea Bastianini committed too early to KTM, it has been sug🌳gested.

Bastianini๊ became the forgotten man in the battle between Marc Marquez and Jorge Martin for the ཧ2025 factory Ducati seat.

Current incumbent Bastianini saw the writing on the wallღ and, shortly after Marquez was confirmed, he signed for KTM’s Tech3 team for ♌next season.

“In🅷 reality, we know he want🏅ed to stay but it was taken away from him,” TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson said.

“I🤪 think he panicked a little bit. All of the seats were being taken up quickly. The Tech3 KTM seat was available and he just🌠 jumped ship.

“If heꦕ waited, even two or three days, the factory Aprilia ride would hav꧟e been available for him.

“I think they would have chosen Enea in fr❀ont of Marco Bezzecchi. I would have, if I had the choice of those two riders.

“I think he’ll regret that now. But, 🔯if you don’t make a decision?🍃 Someone will end up with no ride!”

KTM have named an exciting new-look duo of Bastianini and Maverick Vinales for Tech3 next season, promising them identical machinery to the factory pa෴ir of Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta.

But KTM’s slip away fꦏrom competing with the dominant Ducatis this season remains a worry.

“At the moment, there is 📖no solution,” Sylvain༒ Guintoli said.

“There is restructuring, [tꦗechnical director] Fabiano Sterlacchini is on his way out. They have not renewed him.

“🅺For now, it looks like they are struggling. On most tracks, Ducatis and Aprilias make inroads but KTM ꩵare not making that step.”

Hodgson added: “I spoke to the riders. The problem is that it’s not just one key area, like braking stability or the elect❀ronics.

“It’s a little bit of everything which makes the puzz꧒le even harder to fix.

“They are small details. We are talking about, maybe, 0🍬.2 or 0.3 of a second. But to find that is huge, it’s not 🎃a simple fix.

𝄹“But KTM are so serious about winning at t🐻his level so they’ll throw everything at it.

“They’ve got such a good line-up next year, they’ve🐓 got the right riders and they need to produce the right motorcycle for them.”

Even the🔥 form of teenage rookie Acosta has disappeared at recent rounds.

After ཧearly podiums in Portugal and A💃merica, he hasn’t threatened the usual frontrunners at the past couple of rounds.

“Acosta꧅ jumped on that bike and, even i𒆙n winter testing, was able to go super fast,” Guintoli commented.

“He felt c꧅omfortable with the front end of the bike. In the first GPs he made a difference, and put pressure on Binder and Jack Miller.

“Since then, he’s had a few hiccups and ܫa few crashes.”