Brad Binder accepts responsibility for clashes with angry Luca Marini and Miguel Oliveira at Indonesian MotoGP
The KTM rider fi🍨rst clattered into Luca Marini, which was the catalyst to end a promising race for the VR46 rider, and then forced Miguel Oliveira wide.
He received a long lap penalty for each incident but s☂till finished sixth, before visiting an angry Marini who accepted his apology.
Binder said: “This has been a difficult weekend for us. Fast on new tyres but we only found decent pace in the race today, yesterday I strugglꦐed in the beginning.
“I didn’t get a bad start, it was ♛okay, I was figuring out the medium tyre which I had🌳n’t used since Friday.
“Unfo😼rtunately I had a little sh🐭ake at Turn 8, when I went to grab my front brake I pulled it into my fingers.
“I started to panic because I ♏h﷽ad two guys on the outside.
“I stamped on my rear brake and tried to get around all th🅷e riders.
“I’m really sorry that💖 I ended up hitting Luca and destroying his race. I’m sorry to his team for destroying what cou𓂃ld have been a really good day for them.
“After t🌺hat, I was pushing too hard, ✤trying to come through the field.
“When I had the moment with Miguel, I was a little bit hot.💞 I had to dive inside at the last moment, and I clipped him too.
“I really deserved both long lap penalties today. Sorry 🌄to both riders and both teams♏.”
'You have a responsibility to not hit anybody'
Marini was left frustrated and claiming he could’ve finished on the podium without Binder’s i﷽ntervention.
“It doesn’t matter what happens, you 🐼have a responsibility to not hit any𓃲body on track, to not put anybody else in danger,” Binder said.
“I had it earlier in🌠 the day when my brakes opened but hadn’t had it in the race.
“I thought the guys had f🧔ixed my problem but the reality is, if you get head-shake, they open.
“I was ve🤪ry lucky that I still had a bit of pressure. Had I had nothing, who I would’ve hit? What would’ve happened? It would have been at a much higher speed.
“Unfortunately things like this can 💝happen. I’m really sorry to them𓂃.
“It’s never anyone’s intention to create an outcome like 🍌this for anyone else’s race.♋”
He detailed the incident with Oliveira: “I had a little bit🍒 of an advantage to them on the brakes.
“🌄By that time they’d started to overcook their soft front tyre.
“So the marker I was using in Turn♕ 2 was quite a bit later than theirs.
“I didn’t expect it, didn’t anticipate it.
“When we grabbed the brake I started pulling towards the back of him, then decided 🐟I had to go inside to avoid him.
“Unfortunately I clipped the side of him.”
James was a sports✅ journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1𝔍.
