KTM is MotoGP's big improver of 2023, going from mostly struggling to get inside the top five to leading races and battling for victories with its latest RC16.
Improvements always come from a combination of factors, but KTM has particularly increased its work on aerodynamics. KTM's MotoGP aerodynamicists now work with those from Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the engineering branch of the Red Bull Formula 1 team – the reigning world champions – because F1 has a much longer history of working on aero than MotoGP.
For example, last year at Jerez, Brad Binder told me he was losing the front every lap through the scary-fast right-hander before the final hairpin, because at that speed there was so much downforce it was taking the forks to the bottom of their stroke, which transferred too much load to the front tyre...
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