KTM unwraps 2022 factory and Tech3 MotoGP bikes

The 2022 season marks KTM’s sixth season in MotoGP, having made its debut back in 2017.

From 2019 the Austrian brand has fielded four motorcycles on the grid for its factory squad and Herve Poncharal’s Tech3 team.

In what was a largely difficult year for KTM in 2021, it still registered two victories courtesy of factory team riders Miguel Oliveira at the Catalan GP and Brad Binder – who won the Austrian GP after boldly staying out on slicks in the wet final laps of the race.

However, KTM only managed five more points across an 18-round 2021 over its tally from the 14-round 2020 campaign – in which it won three races – on its way to fifth in the constructors’ standings, only beating Aprilia and ending up 152 points adrift of champions Ducati.

On Thursday in a joint presentation in Austria, KTM pulled the covers off of its factory and Tech3 bike liveries – which remain largely the same as its predecessors.

Red Bull KTM Factory Racing and KTM Tech3 bikes livery

Photo by: KTM Images

Binder and Oliveira remain at the factory team, while Tech3 field an all-rookie line-up of Moto2 world champion Remy Gardner and runner-up Raul Fernandez.

KTM’s management has also had a reshuffle in the off-season, with former Pramac team boss Francesco Guidotti replacing Mike Leitner as team manager for the factory squad.

“2021 was the most successful motorsport season ever in our group. It is amazing what we have done in one year in the road racing paddock: winning the Moto3 world championship and the Moto2 world championship and finishing 6th in MotoGP,” KTM motorsport boss Pit Beirer said.

“It is super-motivating for everything in the future.

“When you start a project like this in MotoGP you want to win a race one day and to say that sounds