For the last two years, the Sword of Damocles has hung over the heads of everyone who works at KTM's MotoGP effort. Since the company's financial insolvency proceedings, the question of funding the operation has been questioned and even cut off at times, leading everyone to wonder whether KTM would still make it to the grid.
And with Bajaj stepping in and purchasing the Austrian motorcycle manufacturer, those questions of what the new owners would do, given the word on the street was that Bajaj was looking to cut costs, continued. Indeed, RideApart even reached out to Bajaj to ask them, "What's up with KTM's MotoGP team?" as rumors of grid spot sales and the outright cancellation of the program were spreading like wildfire.
Bajaj, unfortunately, never responded, and that didn't seem like Good NewsTM. Neither did the rumors of Red Bull pulling out of the company's contract with KTM.
