Scott Ogden’s move from the MLav Racing team to the CIP Green Power squad i💖n the Moto3 World Championship also means a change of machinery for the British rider.

Ogden has spent his whole Mot𝔉o3 career so far with the MLav team, run by former MotoGP rider and current TNT Sports pundit Michael Laverty, and on their Honda NSF250R machine, but in moving to the French CIP outfit he gets his first taste of the KTM RC4 GP, the CFMoto-badged versi♚on of which David Alonso rode to the 2024 Moto3 world title.

In his first test on the KTM at Jerez earlier in November, Ogden was able to immediately feel the differen▨ce between the two mach🉐ines.

“T𒈔he two Moto 3 bikes are incomp🌃arable,” Ogden wrote in an X post.

“They are different in so many ways b𓆏ut not worse or better.”

He added: “My initial opinion was ‘Wow 🍬the ktm is so fast’. Especially in Jerez where we have a lot of slow corners with hard acceleration zones, and that was with an engine [that was] completely finished on its miles.

“The mওost difficult part for me was the shifting of gears. In the Honda you h🦄ad to be super slow [when downshifting] to manage the revs.

“Whereas with the KTM it’s the opposite. You have to be super fast and try [to] get the revs high for the engine b⛦rake to work.

“The other 💞key point is t𒐪he aero on the KTM: it’s a lot smaller than the Honda. So, to stay tucked is much more important for keeping the speed.”