Bradley Smith has announced that he will be joining KTM as a factory rider when the team returns to the MotoGP competition next year.
Smith is looking forward to helping with KTM’s development in its return to the MotoGP in 2017. Although just 25, he is an experienced rider who last year rode to second place in Misano and sixth place in last years world championship! Smith has been described as the “best rider among all the customer teams”. Surely this means great things for KTM’s return to MotoGP!
KTM is currently testing with a prototype RC16, with riders including Randy de Puniet, Mika Kallio, Alex Hofmann and Thomas Luthi in the mix. KTM’s 2017 MotoGP campaign will be formally launched at the Austrian Grand Prix in August 2017.
Here at AMS4KTM we are excited to see what this means for the future development of KTM road bikes.
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