Thailand MotoGP: Brad Binder: Like someone put a blanket over your head!
The lap two incident, which re💝sulted in a long lap penalty for Aleix Espargaro, saw Binder pushe💮d wide and drop from 10th to 15th.
That in turn put him in the thick of the pack, where visibility was almost♑ non-existent due t𓆉o the spray on the straights.
The South African spent the closing stages again battling with the Aprilia of Espargaro, snatching tenth place from the Spaniard꧃ on ✅the final lap.
But it was far below Binder’s expectations.
“Today I was really looking forward to the wet race,” he said. “I got off 🌠to quite an OK start, didn't get a great launch off the line, but managed to get past a few riders.
“But on lap 2, at the end of the straight going into Turn 3, someone [Espargaro] hit me on the insid🎶e.
“I we🦩nt off track, and when I reꦐ-joined I was so far down in the pack that I couldn't see anything.
“Goin𓂃g down the straight it was like someone had a blanꦐket over your head because of the amount of spray from all the bikes ahead.
“I had to keep♐ rolling in the straights, because I could not see where the braking ma🉐rkers were!
“So not a great day. Luckily, we pulled back a few positions, and managed to finish in tenth place. But🌱 frustrating because I know I could have done a better job.
“But it is what it is, and next st🐠op Phillip Island, so l🅠et's make it count there.”
Francesco Guidotti, Red B🦹ull KTM team manager said: “Brad was unlucky that Aleix put him out of the track because it was diff💝icult to recover from there.”
Binder remains the🌠 top KTM rider in the world championship standings, i🐲n sixth, with Oliveira up to eighth.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 y🐭ears and has seen Valentino Rossi come🍬 and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
