Red Bull KTM Factory Racing announces a multi-year partnership with Swiss lubricant specialist MOTOREX for 2026, strengthening performance, reliability, and technical development in MotoGP.
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Red Bull KTM Factory Racing has strengthened its MotoGP ambitions for 2026 with the addition of a familiar name behind the scenes. Swiss lubricant specialist MOTOREX will step up as an official partner in a new multi-year agreement. It brings decades of technical collaboration with KTM into the premier class.
While fans focus on riders and machinery, the smallest engineering details often decide performance in MotoGP. Teams must constantly manage temperature, reduce friction, and protect mechanical durability across punishing race weekends, and that’s exactly where MOTOREX steps in.
The Swiss brand will supply high-performance lubricants along with cleaning and care products, while working closely with KTM through an ongoing development and data-sharing program. The goal is simple: extract maximum performance and reliability from the RC16 under the extreme heat, stress, and loads unique to MotoGP.
It’s less of a new partnership and more of an evolution.
MOTOREX and KTM’s relationship stretches back to 2003, growing through off-road racing, motocross, rally, and the junior Grand Prix ranks. The collaboration has already delivered success in Moto2 and Moto3, including a Moto3 world title in 2025. Now, both brands are taking that experience to the sport’s biggest stage.
For KTM Motorsports Director Pit Beirer, the move felt inevitable.
“MOTOREX has been a trusted partner of KTM for more than two decades,” he said. “Bringing this cooperation into MotoGP is a natural step. Their technical expertise matches exactly what we need at this level.”
From MOTOREX’s side, the premier class offers the ultimate proving ground. It becomes a laboratory where products are pushed to their absolute limits.
“MotoGP is the perfect environment to develop and test our technologies under extreme conditions,” said Andreas Vetter, Head of Powersports at MOTOREX. “We share the same focus on engineering excellence and performance.”
With rising star Pedro Acosta paired alongside proven race winner Brad Binder, KTM’s 2026 line-up already blends youth and experience. Adding MOTOREX’s technical muscle behind the scenes only sharpens the team’s edge.
Because in MotoGP, championships aren’t won on talent alone, they’re won in the details.
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