Brad Binder doesn’t believe KTM’s MotoGP bike needs any radical changes after a lac꧂klustre 2024, but the brand “needs big understanding” first.

Though KTM finished second i🍬n 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, whi🐈le Tech3 rookie Pedro Acos﷽ta totalled nine across sprints and grands prix.

While the future of the KTM MotoGP project remains uncertain 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:amidst its current financial crisis, espec𝐆ially 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 hadꦺ w🍸ith the 2024 bike.

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

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

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

“And that🔜’s the only way we’r♒e going to make up the difference.”

Binder says KTM had to be “more radical” with how it set u♕p the bike in 2024, which took time to understand, and believes this 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 bike 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 more radical to feel the difference.

“So, for sure that took a bit of time. But nowꦕ🌌 late in the season, everything started to make a little bit more sense.

“To be honest, it’s so difficult to say bu🌠t I just imag🌸ine so [that the rear tyre was the cause].

“We all imagine that it’s got more grip. It definitely has more grip. The thing is, no one ever did a back check between the two [2024 and 2023 t🧜yre], so you coꦓuld 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 feels different.”