K☂TM have still solved their issue of having five riders contracted for 2024, but only four MotoGP bikes after their request for a fifth was rejected.

Moto2 teenage starlet Acosta had been promised a promotion to the premier class - putting KTM’s four riders at risk of losing their▨ seat - but has now confessed he ཧmight the victim of limited space.

“Let’s see where I will ride. Now, it’s up in the air. We don’t have n༺ews,” Acosta s𝄹aid in Japan this weekend.

“Maybe I will s🌊tay one more year in Moto2. W▨e don’t know.”

Asked if Moto2 was sudden a real possib💟ility, he replied: “There were always two directions but I don’t want to accept… I don’t really l🥃ike the idea of staying one more year in Moto2. 

“Because I wa🔜nt to jump to MotoGP, I think it is the correct step.

“We cannot be afraid 🥂of anything. Weꦰ have to be realistic. If we can’t, then we can’t.

“I have to wait.”

Aco🍨sta was asked if he still prefers to move to MotoGP, and he answered: “I hope, I hope. At the moment, I don’t know anything.”

Complicating the matter is the fact that his Moto2 team, Red Bull KTM Ajo, have anticipated his exit by announcing a new 2024 line-up of Celestino Vietti an🅰d Deniz Oncu.

“I know, I know, I have nothing to say,” Acosta shrug𓆏ged.

Acosta said about a deadline for KTM’s decision: “No,ജ no, maybe in Valencia! We d🍰on’t know. For sure, before the end of the season but we have to wait.”

KTM factory duo Jack Miller and Brad 🐲Binder, plus Tech3 GASGAS pair Pol Espargaro and Augusto Fernandez, are all contracted for 2024.

Fernandez eveꦕn had his contract extended, seemingly ending the obvious likelihood that he would be axed in favour of Acosta.

A ‘substitute’ idea 🎐was floated by Dorna, suggesting that in return for extra wildcard entries K🌊TM could use one of their five riders in a reserve role.

Acosta’s a✨dmission that he could remain in Moto2 is the newest possible solution but is a significant U-turn on the manufacturer’s initial plans.