KTM refuse to point finger after "very strange beginning of the season"

KTM have refused to point the finger at their riders despite "the 🌼speed bei☂ng there".

Brad Binder, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP, 27 April
Brad Binder, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP, 27 April

Francesco Guidotti believes KTM have had the speed to be more competitive in the 2024 MotoGP season than what the results show.

Following a brilliant double podium with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder in Qatar to begin the campaign, KTM (outside of rookie sensation 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta) have struggled. 

Binder has not been on the podium since, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller is without a podium this season.

Guidotti said: "We had a very good start. We had a very good start to the seas♉on and a comfortable winter test, let's say. 

"But it's sort of been up-and-down with tooꦚ many crashes after the first round and we didn't grab what we ෴deserved I would say, because the speed was there. 

"In the last two/three races w🌳e missed a little bit of feeling and speed. It's been 💦a beginning of the season that is very strange. It's been inconsistent."

Discussing Binder's season, Guidotti continued:🦩 "The speed was always there and in some occasions we missed the moment. For several reasons; some crashes but also we didn't perform in the crucial moments. 

"The speed was t🍸here but we 🐼didn't grab what he could really do."

With regards to Miller who will be leaving the Austrian brand at the end of the season, Guidotti did not want to blame the Australian for the lack of p🐻erformance. 

"He lost confidence with the🐼 front, 🐟where he was really strong [last season] but I wouldn't say that he messed up," added the factory KTM team manager. 

"We win and we lose together. Thi🍎s year we never had the right package for his riding st🍨yle and we never put everything together to show our potential."

Acosta has been KTM's best rid🐻er this season as he sits sixth in the standingജs, one place ahead of Binder.

And when discussing the young Spaniard, Guidotti was unsurprisingly quick to praise the reigning Moto2 ch꧋ampion.

"With this kind of rider you can never had expectation [laughs] because they always surprise somehow.&nbsꦬp;

"He's very welcome in this proj🐎ect and he supports us indefinitely in a d🐭ifferent way." 

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