After a pair of podiums at the Qatar MotoGP season opener, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder has now gone 14 rounds without a rostrum return.

But ﷽the South African was back to his best at Motegi on Friday, putting KTM a surprise fastest on day one of the Japanese MotoGP.

“The last few races have been a bit of a challenge for sure,” Binder told MotoGP.com. “So we came here with a little bit of a different idea. I’d rather just try and ride the bike, not try and rei🐓nvent the thing.

“Today was pretty good. I can't complain. At the beginning of the practice session we had a small issue… Then 𒁃we changed the tyre for the first time attack and my bike was back!

“It was really cool to finish on top again in a practice session. It's been a wh❀ile! It looks like our bike’s pretty decent here and let's try to tak🎉e advantage of it.”

Binder wasn’t the only KTM rider at the sharp end on Friday with future team-mate Pedro Acosta, the rider he is currently battling for top RC16 honours▨ in the world championship, also in cont▨ention for GASGAS Tech3.

Although the rookie was pushed down to fourth during the time attacks, 💜he set a very impressive 1m 44.666s on an old soft rear 🥀tyre.

Partly due to his earlier issueꩵ, Binder didn’t go under the ‘45s until fitting a new soft rear, something he aims to work on in final practice. If it’s dry.

“Everything felt pre♏tty good today [but] it's important to see what we can do when we have to do 24 laps and not just one flyer,” he said.&nbs𝓰p;

“So that's what I want to work on tomorrow morning. And then my priority is to get a strong qualifying under my belt and try to fight wi♉th the top boys again.”

While𝐆 Acosta has been using a new chassis in recent rounds, Binder reiterated that he’s benefiting from going “back to something we know.”

“I tꦜried not to fiddle too much, just ride the bike. So that worked well for us today. And yeah, we can play a bit more in t✤he future.”

Team-mate Jack Miller narrowly missed direct Q💮ualifying 2 access with 11th after a ⛎fall.