Brad Binder on Francesco Bagnaia horror at Catalunya MotoGP: “Every rider’s worst nightmare, I tried to miss him”
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- Floored Bagnaia struck by Binder amid awful crash at Catalunya MoꦬtoGP
A terrifying incident on the first lap in Barcelona saw a multi-rider pile-up bef⛄ore Bagnaia highsided and landed in front of oncoming traffic, and was struck in the legs by Binder.
Bagnaia was conscious but rushed to the medical centre, and Biꦆnder later retired early from the restarted race before heading over to check on his fellow rider.
“Cra💫zy last couple of hours,” the KTM rider emotionally detailed.
“I got a really good launc♛h in tཧhe race, and I was between Maverick and Miguel going through Turn 1 and 2.
“On the exit of 2, I 𝓰didn’t see a thing. Until I saw Pecco and his bike in the middle of the track.
“Then I clipped something on his bike. I was shaking trying🤪 to miss him, then I cli▨pped his leg, or something.
“Yeah, I don’t really know. I ended up falling.
“Thank goodness I saw him moving. He’s obviously🌃 hurt but seems fine.”
After Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini✃ (who was i꧃njured in the initial pile-up) were transported to hospital, the red-flagged grand prix was able to restart.
“I went back and started the race again. I never had a 𒁏back-up hard,” Binde𒀰r said.
“The start was okay, I had to try and bring 🉐temperature to it, I did that. Then we had a technical issue.”
He ♚immediately visited Bagnaia who ൲was still on his mind.
“I went to see Pecco. He seems okay.
“It’s really… the trickiest part is to get back on, a🌞nd carry on. The good thing was that I saw him move. He was moving.
“I just clipped his leg, or legs, I don’t quite know. But I got over enough that, 🌳at least, I didn’t hit him square.
“It’s every rider’s worst nightmare. To see😼 someone there is scary but to be the one who hits them is even mor♒e shit, to be honest.
“I don’t know if he’s o🤪kay, but🐼 he’s fine, you know what I mean?”
Bi🅺nder actually said that he found Bagnaia in a bett🎀er state than expected.
“I went to see him,” he said.
“Honestly, when I walked in there, I wasn’t expecting to see h🌜im chilling! He seemed okay!
“Mওy only priority today is that I⭕ never hurt anybody.”
Aleix Espargaro won the Catalunya MotoGP, fending off Apꦺrilia tea🦋mmate Maverick Vinales.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Spoওrts for a꧟ decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
