After taking on the premier class for the first time last season with impressive results – including seven top-ten finishes – KTM will now have even more representation on the MotoGP grid next season, announcing a new partnership to supply Tech 3 with machinery from 2019 and bring the number...

Ducati's Casey Stoner led the times in a rain-interrupted opening day of MotoGP testing at Sepang.The two-time world champion completed 32 laps with a best time of 1m59.680s, narrowly edging out teammate Andrea Dovizisio's 1m59.797s as the pair worked to gather data on the new exhaust system that heads the...

Mika Kallio admits finishing KTM's first day of MotoGP practice at Valencia more than three seconds off the pace was a "big surprise."The Austrian manufacturer is racing with Kallio as a wild card in the season finale, before entering MotoGP full-time in 2017 with Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaro.A program...

KTM test rider Mika Kallio believes the Austrian manufacturer's engine is the strongest part of the package it is developing to enter MotoGP in 2017.The former Ducati MotoGP rider and Moto2 race winner has been KTM's primary test rider since its RC16 prototype turned its first laps late last year.Related...

KTM will make its MotoGP debut in the final round of the 2016 championship at Valencia, according to test rider Mika Kallio.Speaking at the Red Bull Ring test, where KTM is running Kallio and Thomas Luhti, Kallio confirmed speculation the marque will contest November's race as a precursor to a...

Former Kawasaki and Suzuki rider Randy de Puniet turned his first laps for KTM on Saturday, as the manufacturer continued its MotoGP testing program.KTM completed its first test of the year, ahead of its MotoGP return in 2017, with three days at Jerez. On Saturday's final day, de Puniet, who...

KTM's 2016 MotoGP test bike completed its debut outing at the Red Bull Ring in Austria last week. The manufacturer will join the MotoGP grid in 2017, after undertaking an extensive test program next year.Alex Hofmann completed the three-day Austrian test, while Mika Kallio, who has been signed as a...

KTM has signed former Pramac Ducati rider Mika Kallio to test and develop the bike it will return to MotoGP with in 2017.The Austrian manufacturer last appeared in the premier class in 2005 as an engine supplier, and last year it confirmed its intention to return. Finnish rider Kallio raced...