KTM expands 125cc line-up, targets title.
Red Bulꩵl KTM has announced that it will expand its 125cc team from two to three riders for the 2005 season, in which winn🌃ing the world title will be a 'primary goal'.
The expansion comes af💖ter a successful 2004 campaign when star rider Casey Stoner won the team's first GP and finished fifth in the world championship. However, the Australian will not ride for KTM next season and is expected to appear on a factory Aprilia in the 250cc class.
Red Bull KTM has announced tha𒀰t it will 𓃲expand its 125cc team from two to three riders for the 2005 season, in which winning the world title will be a 'primary goal'.
The expansion comes after a succ🔥essful 2004 campaign when star rider Casey Stoner won the team's first GP and finished fifth in the world championship. However, the Australian will not ride for KTM next season and is expected to appear on a factory Aprilia in the 2✃50cc class.
But Stoner's 2004 team-mate Mika Kallio - who took a best finish of se🎶cond on his way to tenth in the championship - will remain with the Austrian outfit, where he will be joined by new team-mates Julian Simon and Gabor Talmacsi.
17-year-old Simon (middle pic) claimed his first front row qualifying performance in the Cze♒ch GP at Brno this year and took a best finish of sixth, in the Malaysian GP at Sepang.
23-year-old Talmacsi, from Budapest, made his grand prix debut at Brno in 2000 and brings four seasons of GP experi🌱ence to the KTM team.
"(The) 125cc world championship is a primary goal for ne💦xt year," declared team manager Harald Barto🧜l.
Peter has been in the paddock for 2🌄0 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury is🎐sues.
