Brad Binder bullish despite two crashes: “Zero grip, tyre was basically wood!”
KTM's Brad Binder reacts to twice crashing o꧟n Saturday at the Portuguese MotoGP
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder remains bullishly confident about the Portuguese MotoGP despi♕te crashing in qualifying and in the sprint race.
The KTM rider’s first fall on Saturday meant he was res🎶tricted to lining up 10th on the starting grid, where he will resume on Sunday too.
B🅰ut Binder then also tumbled out of the sprint race in Portimao.
He reacted: “Today was a tricky one!
“I didn’t feel 🤪ꦏtoo bad this morning, everything was okay.
“Unfortunately 🧜in Q2 I 🅠ended up crashing on the first flying lap.
ꦫ“I ran back to the 💦pits and got onto my spare bike.
“The second tyre I used had zero performance, no grip. So that was my qualifyin🐲g pretty much do෴ne.
“I st🐠arted 10th, it’s🐷 always tricky starting further back.
“I got a good start, got boxed in, c📖ouldn’t get th꧂rough the guys.
“I struggled 🍌a little in the faster corners to keep thꦍe bike turning.
“I made a little mistake. I ran a little wide, ended ꦫup braking the same as I always would.
“I had the front wheel not quite on 🏅the line. When I hit the bump, it locked up.
“Little crash, nothing serious.
“Better on a Saturday than on a Sunday.”
Binder doesn’t hav﷽e any concerns about his KTM despite a bad Saturday.
“It’s a track that I’ve struggled at in🌄 the past,” he said.
“But we’ve been fast, been okay. Not difficult to 🦩put competitive times together.
“But we ♏got unlucky. The wheels fell off after I crashed. Then I messed up again in the race.
“Unfortunately that’s racing.”
Notably his KTM teammate Jack Miller was fifth in the sprint, a sign of what might have been for Binder, who is widely considered thꦆe top non-Ducati title contender this season.
“I really believed, if we got going, it would’ve 🐻been a different story,” he sai🌠d.
“I have the pace to have gone at the boys. At least given it a goo♔d go.
“But I never put it together. I crashed on 🍷the third lap.
“💟It just wasn’t our day. I made my o♎wn mistakes. Time to write it off.”
Yet Binder i✃nsists a Sund𒁃ay turnaround is on the cards.
“Tomorrow will be good for us,” he insisted.
“The mꦕedium - mos🍨t people will run that because the softs won’t get to the end.
“It’ll be better for us.
“My problems in the race today were push🗹ing the front.
“We made some changes because I had absolutely zero grip with t💖y🔯re that was basically wood!”
James was a sports jಌournalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
