No matter who you are, MotoGP is a gauntlet of epic proportions. You could have millions for R&D, excellent riders who've been racing since inception, and all the technical wunderkind that Germany could produce, and even with all those, you could still end up like where Honda is right now.
Up a creek.
But when you lose one or more of those variables, you're starting off on worse footing. As is the case with KTM, as after the brand declared insolvency, those managing its debt stated that it would be forced to leave the sport at the end of the year. That the funds to support a top-tier racing team just weren't available any longer. And while the Austrian manufacturer has put on a brave, sometimes naively hopeful, face, it can't escape the realities of funding a MotoGP team.
