MRW Issue 1
The first issue of Moto Rider World
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Beirer started the interview<br />
by addressing the journalists,<br />
saying “I don’t know<br />
what to say, as you can imagine<br />
I’m still smiling from Sunday”<br />
referring to Sunday’s fantastic win for<br />
the Austrian manufacturer. He went<br />
on to say how proud he was of the<br />
KTM MotoGP project because they<br />
started with nothing, to a design, to a<br />
bike that wasn’t competitive, to now,<br />
becoming a team that has won a MotoGP<br />
race and which appears to be<br />
more competitive than ever.<br />
The first question asked by one of<br />
the eager journalists raised the topic<br />
of whether or not KTM is ready to<br />
lose their concessions (Concessions<br />
being the special privileges that newer,<br />
less competitive teams are given<br />
to help bridge the gap to the bigger<br />
teams). This is an interesting question,<br />
because now that KTM is becoming<br />
a more serious threat to the<br />
podium regulars, the loss of concessions<br />
is something that the Austrian<br />
factory will have to consider.<br />
Beirer said that he had not even<br />
thought about the fact that KTM<br />
might lose their concessions but<br />
made it very clear that if it were to<br />
happen, he and KTM would take it<br />
as a compliment. It would show that<br />
they have reached the level of competitiveness<br />
that they aimed to reach<br />
at the beginning of the project.<br />
Beirer goes on to say that KTM are<br />
ready to lose their concessions and<br />
that it would not affect them very<br />
much. Beirer then mentions that despite<br />
the win from premier class rookie,<br />
Brad Binder, at Brno, the target<br />
stays the same. Their target, he says,<br />
is to have more than one bike in the<br />
top 10 positions come the chequered<br />
flag on a Sunday. More specifically<br />
though, to achieve this goal not because<br />
people have crashed in front of<br />
them, but rather because they have<br />
the pace to run in those positions,<br />
and fight to stay in those positions.<br />
The next question asked was about<br />
the fact that over the last 3 years<br />
KTM seemed to have been making