After Sylvain Guintoli spoke of the difficulties that KTM is feeling, and as there are no solution for those problems apparently, Neil Hodgson also seemed to agree with the former Suzuki test rider, assuring that the issue doesn’t have an easy fix.
‘I spoke to the riders. The problem is that it’s not just one key area, like braking stability or the electronics. It’s a little bit of everything which makes the puzzle even harder to fix’, Hodgson told TNT Sports, before continuing: ‘They are small details. We are talking about, maybe, 0.2 or 0.3 of a second. But to find that is huge, it’s not a simple fix’.
In such a big manufacturer, that has a winning DNA, Hodgson assured that the Mattighofen team will do it’s best to get to the best level: ‘But KTM are so serious about winning at this level so they’ll throw everything at it’.
He also recalled that for 2025 the tem overall will have a very strong line up, with GASGAS Tech3 to have Maverick Viñales and Enea Bastianini, and KTM itself with Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta.
– They’ve got such a good line-up next year, they’ve got the right riders and they need to produce the right motorcycle for them.