KTM Motorsport boss Pit Beiler stated that Tech3 MotoGP group’s new proprietor Gunter Steiner “needs to be with us” past the 2026 season.
Hervé Poncharal, the veteran proprietor and founding father of the Tech3 group, bought the French group final 12 months to a consortium led by former Haas F1 chief Steiner for 20 million euros.
As of early this 12 months, Poncharal formally resigned and handed over management of the group to Steiner.
The acquisition comes as Tech3 enters the ultimate 12 months of its present contract with KTM, with all producers but to agree on a brand new five-year contract time period with Dorna Sport from the 2027 to 2031 season.
Beiler expects these contract negotiations to proceed easily over the approaching weeks, however his and Tech3’s precedence is to proceed the present satellite tv for pc construction past 2026.
Requested if persevering with Tech3 was a part of the plan, he stated, “Completely, that is a prime precedence.”
“In different phrases, the present scenario is that no producer has signed a contract with Dorna (for 2027).
“That is why nobody indicators a contract with a satellite tv for pc group till the contract scenario is obvious.
“However the motivation is that I spoke to Günther Steiner final week and he’s in Austria and desires to be with us.
“We wish them to remain. We’re engaged on that. However on the finish of the day, it is a free market. It is regular for everybody to speak to everybody when their contract ends.”
“We additionally understood from Dorna that it was of their greatest curiosity that nobody producer had extra groups, however in the end just one group.
“So, by way of the championship, I believe it might be nice if all the things was steady prefer it was right now.
“And what I can say right here is that Tech3 is the companion we would like for the longer term. I felt the identical feeling from Guenther.
“That is what we’ll be engaged on over the subsequent few weeks. We’d like satellite tv for pc groups.
“I believe that is the right MotoGP mission, we want 4 bikes.
“I believe it is the right quantity. It is true that we’ll be sturdy if we’ve got a satellite tv for pc group.”
