Brad Binder bullish despite two crashes: “Zero grip, tyre was basically wood!”
KTM's Brad Binder reacts to twice crashing on Saturday at the Portuguese MotoG🥃P
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder remains bullishly confident about the Portuguese MotoGP de💮spite crashing in qualifyi༺ng and in the sprint race.
Thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe KTM rider’s first fall on Saturday meant he was restricted to lining up 10th on the starting grid, where he will resume on Sunday too.
But Binder ♔൲then also tumbled out of the sprint race in Portimao.
He reacted: “Today was a tricky one!
“I didn’t feel too bad this morni൲ng, everything was okay.
“Unfortunately in Q2 I✃ ended up crashing on the first flying lap.
“I ran back to the pits and got onto𒆙 my spare bike.
ꦑ“The second tyre I♚ used had zero performance, no grip. So that was my qualifying pretty much done.
“I started 1൩0th, it’s always tricky starting further b𝔉ack.
“I got a good start, got boxed in, couldn’t get throu𓂃gh the guys.
“I struggled a little in the ♌faster cornꦆers to keep the bike turning.
“I made a little mistake. Iꦿ ran a little wide, ended up braking the same as I always would.
“I had the front wheel not qu🐟ite💝 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 have any concerns abo𝕴ut his KTM despite a bad Saturday.
“It’s a traꦆck that I’ve struggled at in the past,” he sa📖id.
“Bu꧙t we’ve been🍨 fast, been okay. Not difficult to put competitive times together.
“But we got unlucky. The wheels fell off af𒁃ter 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 i🌊s widely considered 🐷the top non-Ducati title contender this season.
“I really believed, if we got going,꧅ it would’ve been a different story,” he said.
“I have the pace to have gon𝕴e at the boys. At least given it a good go.
“But 🔯I n🌌ever put it together. I crashed on the third lap.
“It just wasn’t our day. I made my own mistakes𓂃. Time to write it off.”
Yet Binder insists a Sunday turnaround is o♎n the cards.
“Tomorrow will be good for us,” he insisted.
“The medium - most peopleꦯ will run that because the softs won’t get t𒅌o the end.
“It’ll be better for us.
“My 🐟problems in the race today wereဣ pushing the front.
“We made some changes because🥃 I had absolutely zero grip with tyre that was basically wood!”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sportꦦs for a decade covering everything from Americജan sports, to football, to F1.
