KTM have bluntly insisted that they have no free space, when asked about signing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez.

This weekend’s 2024 MotoGP season-opening race in Qatar will be M💛arquez’s Ducati debut with the Gre✨sini team.

But, becaus🗹e he only signed a one-year deal, a key talking point is where his long-term future will lie.

KTM - who share Red Bull with Marquez as a major sponsor - were linked 🧔with recruiting him last year when he first began assessing options away from Honda.

But, as the 2024 season gets sဣet to begin, KTM have offered a surprising verdict when asked about bringing in Mar🃏quez for 2025.

"We believe in 🤪our four riders,” moto🌳rsport director Pit Beirier told .

“As 💫things stand today, we don't have any vacanci꧟es.”

Factory rider Brad Binder is tied to KTM long-term but his teammate Jack Miller is only contracted until the end of this yearꦏꦗ.

It is presumed that KTM have an o꧅ption to keep Tech3 GASGAS rookie Pedro Acosta beyond this year, while Augusto Fernandez is also within the final 12 months of his deal.

A frantic silly season acroꦜss MotoGP is expected but KTM don’t want to be heavily involved.

“I don’t see us in the position where we 🐬have to do anything great,” said Beirer.

“Our greatest motivation is to a⛎chieve our goal with the current riders.

"With Ped𝓡ro and Augusto, we have two extremely successful Moto2 riders on board who are still very young.

“Jack is an experienced warrior and♛ Brad is an absolute winning rider.

“With this squad we can attack fully.

"In t🌌he first♎ third of the season we want to confirm that we have the right riders.

“Then we wouldn't have to be so involv♊ed in the rider car𓂃ousel. That's our top priority.”

Of course, KTM know that one of their existing fouℱr riders might opt to leave.

"It's not said that all riders want to stay wꦗith us without a contract for 2025,” Beirer admitted.

“It's a two-way street. So we can't sit back.

"We have to woo the riders to ensure🌱 that they feel comfortable with us and stay.

“For us, it is always a compliment when a rider signs a contract, e🌱ven though there are other options.

“Brad has done thi🤪s several times and we appreciate the comp🎐liment.

“The riders want to show ꧒us that they are the right riders.

“And we want to🐠 show them tha🔯t they are in the right place.

“We try to keep the door closed as long as possible. ꧃But a lot can still happen this year…”

Much will depend on the KTM’s competitivenes💙s in the early months of the 2024 season.

If they can establish themselves as Ducati’s closest competition - or ideally even surpass them in certain moments - they would greatly enhance th🦋eir value on the market to current and available riders for 2025.