Francesco Guidotti, KTM team manager, confirms the arrival of Alberto Giribuola and other technical figures from Suzuki and Formula 1.
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Project KTM in MotoGP is about to abandon its embryonic stage to take a new evolutionary step. The Austrian revolution started from the driver line-up, with the return of Pol Espargaro at Tech3 and the arrival of Jack Miller from Ducati. Another central figure will arrive from the Ducati garage as Alberto Giribuola, chief engineer of Enea Bastianini and former box accomplice of Andrea Dovizioso. The official announcement is missing but the agreement is assured, at KTM we will speak more and more Italian.
Recently, the manufacturer Mattighofen took Fabiano Sterlacchinithen Francesco Guidotti, now Swivel, Jack Miller, soon too Cristian Pupulin, today Jack Miller's team leader. Only the name of the fourth driver is missing after the dismissal of Remy Gardner. “ Augusto Fernandez? It's not official yet, we're talking, he's certainly one of the eligible candidates, the first on the list », explains the team manager Francesco Guidotti.
Guidotti KTM: “ we are restructuring, we must change pace both in terms of quantity and quality of people »
Next week there will be two days of official testing MotoGP where various solutions will be tested. “ We have many things to try, because we must not all stop, especially those of us who are a little behind, in a process of structural and methodical change. We can't sleep, we need fresh and different material which allows us to be more constantly ahead. The test team will have something new but not revolutionary, the project is still young and we still need to experiment with what has been done lately ».
Francesco Guidotti confirms the arrival of Alberto Giribuola, who will play the role of technical coordinator. But this will not be the only novelty in the stands KTM, possible the arrival of other engineers from Suzuki and the world of F1. " We are restructuring, we must change pace both in terms of quantity and quality of people. This is one of the many transplants, you will see that others will also arrive from other teams. Suzuki's location also made it easier for us to find the type of technician we needed. We are in a moment of transition from draft to finish – concludes Guidotti -. We need a certain type of people because there were few of us and MotoGP requires attention to every detail. Giribuola will be just one of many transplantss ".
