Famed M🌃oto2 and Moto3 team owner Aki Ajo is reportedly set to replace Francesco Guidotti as team manager at t🐽he factory KTM MotoGP squad in 2025.

Reports that Guidotti, who joined KTM from Pramac in 2022, was set to leave his r🔜ole as part of internal restructuring by the A🦹ustrian manufacturer emerged last weekend at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Guidotti didn’t deny these rumours when asked about it on the grid ahead of the second Misano race, but also didnღ’t address them head on.

There were rumours that Dani Pedrosa, who is currently a KTM test🍌 rider, could take over th😼e team manager role set to be vacated by Guidotti.

However, given Pedrosa’s current role with KTM🌠 largely keeps him out of the spotlight and offers him more time at home, this seemed unlikely. KTM denied to ltxღcn.top that Pedrosa would take over.

Re𝓡ports from now state that Ajo will take over from Guidotti, granting him a long sought-after role in MotoGP.

Ajo has a long-✱standing relationship with KTM through his Moto3 and Moto2 squads, which have yielded 10 world championships with riders like Marc Marquez, Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta.

Should Ajo take over the team mana🍸ger role at KTM, it’s not clear how his role with his Moto2 and Moto3 squads will change.

However, his son Niklas — who used to race in the Moto3 Woဣrld🦋 Championship - currently works in the Ajo squad as an engineer and could be promoted to take care of the day-to-day running of the outfit.

All of🔴 this comes as KTM has gotten further away from the front of the grid in 2024, with i🦄ts victory drought now dating back to 2022.

Binder is currently the lead KTM rider in the standings, ღbut is 176 points behind championship leader Jorge Martin and hasn’t stood on the podium since the opening round of the season in Qatar.

Acosta has scored three grands prix podiums in ꧑2024 so far, though had to wait 🐻eight races between his second and third rostrums in MotoGP.