Brad Binder: “It’s better to crash out of first place than ride around in 15th”
Brad Binder’s crashing woes cont♐inue in Catalunya after falling from the lead of the sprint race.
After a double fall at turn two on Friday, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder suffered the same fate but this time at turn five as he threw away a potential MotoGP sprint win.
Binder took over the lead shortly after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez also crashed out from the lead, when he overtook 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta.
But the factory KTM rider, who has been very fast all weekend despite his previous crashes, saw the front-end of his♐ RC16 wash out at turn five.
Speaking after the race, Binder remained upbeat despite a third fall in two days: “Today’s qualy was pretty good. Super happy to have qualified fourt💜h. It’s always great to ⛦be right up front from the start.
“The start was pretty good but unfortunately I hit th൩e limiter in first gear and then couldn’t get the bike to go into second, but it was still a great start. I had a little bit of a mishap there.
“Apart from that everything else was great. I had a really good feeling in t🐼he race, the bike is working 💙really well here, but unfortunately in turn five the front just washed out.
“I didn’t get any warning. I was maybe a bit straighter than the lap ওbefore and that was my race all done. It is what it is.
“It’s never cool to crash out of first, but it’s better to crash out of first place than to ride around in ꦡ15t🍸h like last week.”
Surprisingly, Binder admitted his mistake came when riding with more caution﷽ than normal🐓.
The South African said: “I was trying to ride clean and I probably shouldn’t have done that becꦇause I was backing it in a l🅠ot less than I’m used to and obviously it put the weight in a little bit of a different place and I washed the front.”
Binder, who was fighting hard with fellow KTM rider Acost🌠a for much of the race before his mistake, was bꦰack at the sharp end of a MotoGP race and able to fight against the Ducatis.
Asked where🅷 he sees their advantages over the Ducati bikes, Binder added: “I think there are many tracks where we have advantages, maybe not as many as them but this is a track that’s really good for us.
“From FP1 all the KTM’s were fast and it didn’t matter what we did set-up-wise, we wer𓄧e all good.
“But the big test is tomorrow. Let’s see how we end up⛦ in the race.”
