Brad Binder doesn’t believe KTM’s MotoGP bike needs any radical changes after a lacklustre 2024, but th🌺e brand “needs big understanding” first.

Though♒ KTM finished second in the constructors’ standings in 2024, it was some 395 points adrift of all-conquering Ducati as its win drought continued for another year.

Binder only scored two podiums, back at the opening round of the year in ꧅Qatar, while Tech3 rookie Pedr💝o Acosta totalled nine across sprints and grands prix.

While the future of the KTM MotoGP project remains uncertain 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:amidst its current financial cr💎isis, especially with rumours of a development freeze for 2025 as a result, the new bike appears to already be a step forward from the 🍌2024 machine.

However, following last month’s Barcelona post-season test, Binder suggested KTM was yet💜 to fully understand every problem it had with the 2024 bike.

“Well, I think we need big understanding first,” he said🐼 when as🍌ked if the KTM needed a major change for 2025.

“Once we understand everything, we can then start to make small steps 🦩in each area [which] is what we need.

“It’s not necessarily one big step. It’s literally a tiny bit in braking, a tiny bit🌠 in turning, a little bit in ꦺdrive grip.

“And that’s the only way we’re go♌ing to make up the 𝓰difference.”

Binder says KTM had to be “more radical” with how it set up the bike in 2024, which took time to understand, and believes thi🍨s was down to Michelin’s ultra-grippy rear tyre.

“I mean, I ꧂think this year for some reason we had to really change the balance of our bik♌e and it was always difficult to understand, because when we were playing in our normal windows, our normal area that we change the bike, we weren’t really getting much difference,” he added.

“So, we had to do things much mor✅e radical to feel the difference.

“S🦂o, for sure that took a bit of time.🀅 But now late in the season, everything started to make a little bit more sense.

“To be honest, it’s so difficult to say♒ bওut I just imagine so [that the rear tyre was the cause].

“We all imagine that it’s got more grip.ﷺ It definitely has more grip. The thing is, no one ever did a back check between the two [2024 and 2023 tyre], so you could never say ‘hey, that’s it’.

“You couldn’t put your hand on fire and say that’s the difference, because one year to the other you come back, you’re so rusty at the beginning that everything f🔯eels different.”