Tech3 KTM team boss Herve Poncharal has responded to rumours li𓄧nking the French outfit with a move away from the Austrian manufacturer in MotoGP.

Tech3 has been with KTM since 2019, and has been t𝓡he Mattighofen marque’s only satellite team in MotoGP to date൲.

But the combination of KTM’s financial difficulties, which began in 2024, and recent speculation regarding changes to the ownership of the Tech3 team, which h✱as b💛een linked with former F1 team principal and WRC team boss Guenther Steiner, has led to suggestions that Tech3 could le🔯ave KTM even by the end of 2025.

Poncharal, though, insists that he is happy working with KTM and intends to continue that relationship beyond 2025 – indeed, Tech3’s current MotoGP contract with the Austrian manufacturer does not expire until th⛄e end of 2026.

“I [currently] have a contract, a valid contract, and a really good contract, and I want to thank Stefan Pierer, Hubert Trunkenpolz, and Pit Beirer for giving me this working relationship,” Poncharal told the MotoGP international TV feed 🐻during FP2 on Saturday morning in Arago𒁃n.

“Our contra♒ct is until the end of 2026 and I have no sign and haven’t been told that that won’t happen. So, for 2026 is going to be four Red Bull KTMs on-track: Acosta, Binder, Vinales, Bastianini.”

Poncharal added that his intention is to continue working with KTM beyond 2026 and into MotoG�𒐪�P’s incoming 850cc regulations.

“All I wish, and everything I’m working on at the moment♑, even from 2027 until 2031, is to sign a deal with KTM and be the second KTM team on th𝄹e grid; with maybe different colours, maybe different investors on my side.

“But I⛦’ve not been talking to any other manufact🦩urer at the moment.

“I read also a lot of things, but I can promise you that, for the moment, 100 per cent of our energy is to work with KTM until the end of 2026 and to work on a new co𝓀ntract for 2027–2031 with KTM.

“W♏e trust them and we’re sure they’re g🅷oing to be there with a competitive package.”

Finally, Poncharal said that he wishes to h😼ave his team’s fౠuture sorted and secured by the end of 2025, although he admitted that such a target is quite a vague one.

“By the end of 2🍎025 [...] I would like everything to 🌱be clear,” he said.

“But end of 2025 could be September🔯, could be October♎.

“I don’t give a precise date at the moment, but what I will say is I will do everything I can to have Tech3 with the structure and the people in the MotoGP p💃addock for a few more years.”