Despite Pedro Acosta’s heroics on the sister GASGAS machine, COTA proved the toughest weekend of the MotoGP season so far for Red Bull KTM duo 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller.

Arriving second in the world championship, Binder’s hopes were hit by a lowly 17th place in qualifying, plu𓃲s a fractured bone in his foot from a motocross training accident.

The South African was outside the points in tenth during the Sprint, whileꦜ a strong start to the grand prix counted for nothing when he suffered wing damage at Turn 1 and was left in 15th place.

Things got even worse when he lost a further position to Alex Rins on lap 𓂃6, but he eventually recovered to ninth place.

“A ♐tricky race for us even though I got the best launch ofﷺ my life!” Binder said. “I think that was the highlight.

“In Turn 1, I tried to rail the outside to gain as many positions as I could an🎃d with the mess between riders there I unfortunately broke my rear wing and front left wing.

“20 laps around COTA wit🍰h that missing wasn’t much fun. 

"The bike pulled to one🌱 [side], especially on the꧅ straights. And it’s quite unstable so you have to countersteer quite a lot. When we lose the whole rear wing you don’t have the downforce you set the bike up for. So it’s really tricky to manage after that.

"[But] I could finally find a 🃏rhythm between that situation and my tyre and make some pace. A difficult weekend and one to forget although I think our GP here looks a l✱ot worse than it was!”

Starting from eleventh, Miller took seventh in the Sprint, then capitalised on contact 𒊎ahead to grab🧸 an early third in the grand prix. But, like Francesco Bagnaia, he began to struggle for rear grip after lap 6.

“I felt good in the♌ group for the first six laps and very comfortable,” said Miller, who eventually finished in 13th.

“The bike was working better than yesterday but then from lap seven I ran into some grip issues immedi🐠ately and it just got worse. I𓄧 couldn’t carry corner speed.

“It was a b🐬it confusing after we’d done ten laps and pushed so hard [on the same soft rear tyre compound] in the Sprin♔t.

“I’d been managing the tyre and building it up, so it’﷽s very strange. I just tried to ride as defensively as I could for the rest of the race.

“We've got a fantastic package. I was able to fight there with the boys. But an unforeseen issue today. It is what it is.🀅”

Unlike th✨e KTM🔥 duo, runner-up Acosta chose the medium rear tyre.

Team manager Francesco Guidotti is confident that CO🃏TA was just a blip.

“We’re looking forward to Jerez because there aꦺre a lot of signs that the bike is working well – we saw it with Pedro [Acosta] today - and we believe it will perform at a high level again there,” he said.