Despite Pedro Acosta’s heroics on the sister GASGAS machine, COTA proved the toughest weekend of the MotoGP season so far for Red Bull KTM duo 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller.

Arriving second in the world championship, Binder’s hopes were hit by a🐭 lowly 17th place in qualifying, plus ꦏa fractured bone in his foot from a motocross training accident.

The South Af𝓡rican was outside the points in tenth during the Sprint, while a st🌱rong start to the grand prix counted for nothing when he suffered wing damage at Turn 1 and was left in 15th place.

Thingsಞ got even worse when he lost a further position to Alex Rins on lap 6, but he eventually recovered to ninth place.

“A tricky race for us even though I got the best launch of my life!” Binder said. “I think that w🐎as the hไighlight.

“In Turn 1, I tried to rail the outside to gain as many positions as I could and with the mess between riders there I unfortunately broke my rear w✱ing and front left wing.

“20꧙ laps around COTA with that missing wasn’t much fun. 

"The bike pulled to one [s♏ide], especially on the straights. And it’s quite unstable so you have to countersteer quite a lot. When we lose the whole rear wing you don’t have the downforce you set the bike up for. So it’s really tricky to manage after that.

"[But] I could finally find a rhythm between that situation and my tyre and make some pace. A diffi🌱cult weekend and one to forget although I think our GP here looks a lot worse t🤪han it was!”

Starting from eleventh, Miller took seventh in the Sprint, then capitalisꦏed on contact ahead to grab an early third in the grand prix. But, like Francesco Bagnaia, he began to struggle for rear grip after lap 6.

“I felt good in the group♛ for the first six laps and very comfortabl♉e,” said Miller, who eventually finished in 13th.

“The bike was w🅘orking better than yesterday but then from lap seven I r🍌an into some grip issues immediately and it just got worse. I couldn’t carry corner speed.

“It 💛was a bit confusing after we’d done ten laps and pushed so hard [on the same soft rear tyre compound] in the ✤Sprint.

“I’d been man🦋aging the tyre and building it up, so it’s very strange. I just tried t𒆙o ride as defensively as I could for the rest of the race.

“We've got 🌼a fantastic package. I was able to fight there with the boys. But an unforeseen issue today. It is what it is.”

Unlike the KT♐M duo, runner-up Acosta chose the mediu🤪m rear tyre.

Team manager Francesco ౠGuidotti is confident that COTA was just a blip.

“We’re looking forward to Jerez because t🌳here are a lot of signs that the bike is working well – we saw it with Pedro [Acosta] today - and we believe it will perform at a h🍒igh level again there,” he said.