Year Casey Stoner to partner 2002 Rookie of the Year Kallio, Red Bull KTM went all in for the 2004 season, but their bikes were full of reliability issues, Stoner being forced to retire five times, and Kallio eight times (including three times from the first six races, and five times from the last seven races of the year). He ended the season 10th in the championship, with 86 points. The 2005 season would be his breakout year. Stoner moved up to the 250cc category, with Gábor Talmácsi being brought in to be Kallio's new teammate. Kallio started the year well, with a 2nd place in Jerez, before taking his first championship pole position and victory, at the second round of the 2005 season in Estoril. He went on to take another pole in Shanghai but ended the race only in 11th, followed by a 3rd place in Le Mans, another pole with a retirement in Mugello, a pole position and a 3rd place in Barcelona, a fifth consecutive pole position in Assen, followed by a retirement in the race, and a sixth pole in Donnington, where he ended the race in 7th. Following the summer break, he scored his seventh pole position of the year in Germany, his fifth consecutive pole position, both records in the category, and followed it up with a dominant win, setting fastest lap as well. His pole position streak was halted by main championship rival Thomas Lüthi in Brno, with Lüthi dominating the weekend and winning the race, Kallio coming in second. The two would keep exchanging blows, Kallio winning in Japan and Lüthi in second, Lüthi winning in Malaysia, Kallio finishing in second. An infamous incident happened in the race in Qatar, with only four races remaining. Kallio started from pole, and led the entire race, closely followed by teammate Gábor Talmácsi. Before the race, Talmácsi had been ordered by the KTM team to stay back and not to fight with Kallio, seeing how he was not a title contender, and would only take away points. The Hungarian rider stayed behind Kallio the whole race, but in the final lap's finish straight, pulled out from behind Kallio's slipstream and passed the Finn on the last few meters of the race, to take the win by 0.017 seconds. Talmácsi said that he thought there was one more lap to go, despite the team showing