Brad Binder bullish despite two crashes: “Zero grip, tyre was basically wood!”
KTM's Brad Binder reacts to twice crashing on Saturdayꦅ at the Portuguese MotoGP
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder remains bullishly confident about the Portuguese MotoGP despite crashing i💦n qualifyin🐲g and in the sprint race.
The KTM rider’s firs💮t fall on Saturday meant he was restricted to lining up 10th on the starting grid, where he will resume on Sunday too.
🙈But Binder then also tumbled out of the sprint race in Portimao.
He reacted: “Today was a tricky one!
“I didn’t feel ജtoo bad this morning, everything was okay.
“Unfortunately in Q2 I ended 𝄹up crashing on the first flying ꦗlap.
“I ran back to the pits and got ont𝐆o my spare bike.
“The second tyre I used had zero performance, no grip. Sꦿo that was my qualifying pretty much done.
“I started 10th, it’s always tricky startin🎶g further back.
“I got a good start, got boxeꦅd in, couldn’t get through the guys.
“I struggled a little in the faster coꦚrners to keep the🍎 bike turning.
“♉I made a little mistake. I ran a little wide, ended up bra🦩king the same as I always would.
“I had the front wheel not quite on the line. When I hit th⛄e b🌞ump, it locked up.
“Little crash, nothing serious.
“Better on a Saturday than on a Sunday.”
Binder doesn’t have a🔴ny concerns about his KTM despite a bad Saturday.
“It’s a track that I’ve strඣuggled at in the past,” he said.
“But we’ve been fast, been okay. Not difficult to put competitive times togeth꧟er.
“But we got unlucky. The wheels fell off after ✅I crashed. Then I messed up again in the race.
“Unfortunately that’s racing.”
Notably his KTM teammate Jack Miller was fifth in the sprint, a sign of what might have been ♒for Binder, w꧙ho is widely considered the top non-Ducati title contender this season.
“I really believed, if we got going♊, it would’ve been a different s🌌tory,” he said.
“I have the pace to h♓ave gone at the boys. At least given it a good go.
“But I never 💙put it together. I crashed on the third lap.
“It just wasn’t our day. I made my own mistak🗹💜es. Time to write it off.”
Yet Binder insi🍬sts a Sunday turnaround is on theও cards.
“Tomorrow will be good for us,” he insisted.
“The medium - most people will run 🅺that bec♑ause the softs won’t get to the end.
“It’ll be better for us.
“My problems in the ra𝔉ce today were pushing the front.
“We made some changes because I had abs🐻olutely zero grip with tyre that was basically wo💯od!”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American spoཧrts, to football, to F1.
