KTM’s 2024 MotoGP season started positively, but ended wꦕith the Austrian brand entirely winless.

KTM’s win drought co⛄ntinues to extend back to Miguel Oliveira’s 2022 Thai Grand Prix triumph over two y💛ears ago (or back to Jerez 2023 if you consider Sprints).

This is despite🔯 the Austrian manufacturer beginning the season in positive fashio༺n, with both Brad Binder and 2024 MotoGP rookie Pedro Acosta on the podium in the opening races of the season.

“We started very well, with some podiums with some diff🐽erent riders and the expectation was really high,” Red Bull KTM’s departed team principal Francesco Guidotti told MotoGP.com.

“From mid-season on, we struggled a little bit, some directions that maybe weren’t the best ones for us; the main contenders made𒐪 a little improvement but made the gap even bigger.

“We had a moment in mid-season a little bit st🐲range, so I think it’s where we lo꧅st the chance to stay close to the top.”

Despite KTM’s struggles in 2024, which ultimately cost him his jo🉐b, Guidotti had no complaints about the conduct of the Austrian brand’s riders.

“I think the riders’ behaviour was the right one, they never gave up, we also as technicia🗹ns a🎀nd management never gave up, but realistically we were not in the fight ‘mood’. So, we had to rewind the movie and start again.

“In the very last part of the season, we could see KTM on top constantly — some crashes, some incid✃ents, but overall not too bad.

“‘Not too bad’ is not what we want, but it’s what we have at the moment. We missed too many options, t✅oo many chances in the beginning of this year, and then you miss t🙈he game, you lose the game.”