MotoGP 2019, here we go! The Red Bull KTM teams unveil new colors during the presentation organized by the Austrian firm.
KTM's biggest and most ambitious attack on the MotoGP Grand Prix was symbolized on Tuesday afternoon a short distance from the factory in Mattighofen, Austria where riders and staff from Red Bull KTM Factory Racing and Red Bull KTM Tech3 were presented by KTM management as part of the company's most comprehensive effort to take on the World Championship.
After two seasons in MotoGP in which the manufacturer collected its first points, placed in the top 10 and ended the second year with its first podium in Valencia, the effort is now doubled with the experienced Red Bull team KTM Tech3 which places two more RC16s on the grid.
KTM is proud to highlight its Grand Prix structure and its potential for 2019, in the presence of the riders themselves and the new colors of the RC16.
Red Bull KTM will count on the experience brought by 3 world championship titles, 39 victories and 92 podiums among its four riders from Spain, France, Portugal and Malaysia.
Pol Espargaro (28 years old in June) will begin his third season on the official RC16 and his sixth in the premier category. He is joined for the first time by John Zarco (29 years old in July), the former Moto2 World Champion, the most successful Frenchman in the history of Grands Prix.
Red Bull KTM Tech 3 banked on hopes Hafizh Syahrin (25 years old in May and first Malaysian to compete in the premier class and now ready for his second year in MotoGP) and Miguel Oliveira (another “first” for his country, Portugal, in MotoGP), while the young 24-year-old rider is the first to have already defended the colors of KTM in Moto3 and Moto2.
MotoGP KTM teams are supported by the test rider duo Mika Kallio et Dani Pedrosa.
Photo credit: Sebas Romero / KTM
