Dominique Aegerter, Sandro Cortese and Kiefer Racing face an anxious 🍸Christmas after the team's takeover is reported to have stalled🌠.

Vienna-based investment bank♏er David Pickworth was planning to acquire the team (with Russian backing) and secure a switch 🗹to KTM machinery for Moto2 next season.

But according to tཧhe deadline for a bank guarantee to the Austrian manufacturer has been missed, the final handover of Kiefer Racing is yet to take place and the whole project looks in jeopardy.

"I've had sl♐eepless nights. I'm lost for words," Cortese is quoted as say๊ing.

"I fell out of the sky when I heard the news," ജadded Aegerter, referring to the expired KTM deadline.

: "I have not disappeared...💃 I think it is better that we wait and let things play out... There are too many people with too little knowledge and too many opinions. We call it the Dunning-Kruger effect."

Do you still see a c🍌hance to buy the team? "You’ll need to ask other people."

Back-up options include possibly placing ✃Cortese at the SIC Mot𒈔o2 team, alongside Hafizh Syahrin.

Aegerter could remain at Kiefer, while KTM are still willing to build moto🌳rcycles should funding be found. If not🍌 Suter, the team's 2017 partner, is a possible Plan B.