Brad Binder bullish despite two crashes: “Zero grip, tyre was basically wood!”
KTM's Brad Binder reacts to twice crashing on꧒ Saturday 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 crash𒁃ing in qualifying and in the s🦩print race.
The KTM rider’s first fall on Saturday meant he was restricted to lining up 10th on the starting grid, where he will resume on𝓰 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 too bad tꦯhis morning, everything was ok𓆏ay.
“Unfortunately in Q2 I ended 💙up crashing on the first flying lap.
“I ran back to the pits and got onto my sp♚are bike.
ඣ“The second tyre I used had zero performance, no grip. So that was my qualifying pretty much done.
“I♔ started 10th, it’s always tricky starting further back.
“I got a good start, got boxed in, couওldn’t get throu♌gh the guys.
“I struggle𝐆d a little in thꦑe faster corners to keep the bike turning.
“I made a little mistake. I ran a little wide, ended 💫up braking the same as I alway𒉰s would.
“I had the fr🍌ont wheel not quite on the line. When I hit the bump, it 🔥locked up.
“Little crash, nothing serious.
“Better on a Saturday than on a Sunday.”
Binder doesn’t have any concerns about🍬 his KTM despite a bad Saturday.
“It’s a track that I’ve 🌜struggled at in the pas꧟t,” he said.
“But we’ve been fast, been okay. Notꦑ difficult to put competitive times together.
“But we got unlucky. The 🦩wheels fell off after I crashed. Then 𒅌I 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, who is widely considered the top non-Ducati title contender this season.
“I really believed, if we got going, it would’ve💛 been a different story,” he 🌱said.
“I have the pace to have gone at the boys. At least given 𝐆it a good go.
“But I never put it together. I crashed⭕ꦉ on the third lap.
“It just wasn’t our day🗹. I made my own miꦗstakes. Time to write it off.”
Yet Bin💜der insists a Sunday turnaround is on the cards.
“Tomorrow will be good for us,” he insisted.
“The medium - most peopꦗle will run that because the softs won’t get to ๊the end.
“It’ll be better for us.
“My🍸 problဣems in the race today were pushing the front.
“We made some changes because I had absolutely zero grip with tyre that෴ was basically wood!”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sp♍orts for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
