The pair collided at the beginning of the session, when Binder, who was ahead of Fernandez, lost the front after🍸 touchi🅷ng a dirty part of the track.

Fernandez also went wide into the turn, and 𝄹although he initially saved a crash, the Spaniard had nowhere to go but into Binder as🌠 they both crashed.

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“I was behind him and🅘 I closed the front first, so it was a mistake asꦫ I was pushing the front,” said Fernandez. “But when I saved it he was also closing the front out of the line and I went straight to him. To avoid braking on the dirty line I closed the front.”  

For Binder,🍃 the crash came on a day where he was very strong, esp🌺ecially when he fitted the soft tyre late on.

After finishing fourth overall, Binder said: “Today was all good. This morning started 🃏off quite ok. The track is a little bit special; the rear grip is really low. 

“It’s dꦉifficult to understไand how much you can push it, especially on throttle but apart from that we tried something this afternoon and didn’t really like it at the beginning. 

“I locked the front and was going wide, then Augustꦓo locked the front and came sliding and I got c🐟ollected there. Other than that it was ok. 

“When we put the soft tyre in at the end I was fast and we made it through to Q2. I’ll try and make more improvements fo෴r tomorrow.”

Continuing to talk about track condiಞtions, Binder said the Mandalika circuit felt strange in some areas, but that it was mainly due to the different tyre casing supplied by Michelin. 

“This track feel﷽s a little bit strange in some places. I feel like I hook up really well and then it just lets go. 

“There’s a different casing to what we normally use and it’s coming from that. We just need to try and shake everything a bit bettꦛer to try and k🤡eep the grip and not lose it. 

“It’s really weird. It’s like there’s not a lot of grip 💫but there’s enough that to understand what’s going on then there is a moment where it just brakes and it has a big slide. 

“The thing is, you need the engine brake to stop but when you turn you kind of need to let it r🍸oll. You have to kind of reshape things differently here. It’s all coming down to this different casing.”