KTM has reached an agreement with Aki Ajo to take the reins as Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team Manager from 2025. He will take over from Francesco Guidotti.

Ajo has run his own team, Ajo Motorsport, in Grand Prix racing for more than two decades.

“It’s an honor to be offered this great new role and opportunity to work in MotoGP with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing,” said Ajo. “At the moment MotoGP is at a very high level so we need to continue to work in many areas and use the strengths that we have to build this KTM package to an even better standard. We need to keep pushing but I think this project already has many good parts to be right at the very top; we have to manage them in the best way. Thank you to Stefan, Hubert, Pit and Jens and everyone in the KTM structure.”

Aki Ajo has been appointed 2025 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team Manager

Pit Beirer, KTM Motorsports Director, added, “We have a special relationship and a very close collaboration with Aki and so we felt this was the best decision to take the MotoGP project forward. I’ve said it before and will mention it again: he believed in us when we were just getting organized in this paddock, so the trust and the friendship is unmatched. His team’s success speaks for itself. He has won titles with both of the riders that will be in the pitbox for 2025 but that knowledge is just part of the skillset he will bring. We know we can count on a lot of pedigree and, of course, Aki knows our company and the way we race. I’m really pleased and proud that we are taking this challenge together and we are continuing a story that began a long time ago and has had so much success and great stories already.”