‘Strangest crash ever’ for KTM’s Brad Binder in French MotoGP sprint
Brad Binder’s French MotoGP s🐽print lasted just three laps

Factory KTM MotoGP rider Brad Binder says he was taken out of the sprint race at the French Grand Prix by “the strangest crash I think I’ve e🦋ver had”.
The South African narrowly missed out on a Q2 place in qualifying on Saturday, but was battling for the top five with KTM stablemates 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales in the early laps having co🌺me from 13th o♓n the grid.
But on lap four at Turn🍌 9 his sprint came to an end when he was flicked from his RC16.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder later explained that he locked the front under braking but was felled by the ﷺrear coming round as he tried to get into the corner.
“It was the strangest crash I think I’ve ever had,” he told MotoGP’s official website.
“I braked up straight and🤡 I locked the front up straight, but normally you have little locks and then it comes straight again.
🐼“But I locked and it just didn’t come back. I was trying to pick the front up, but the rear kept coming around and then it gave me a little small highside thing.
“But it was just enough to throw me down.
”🧔Not ideal. Honestly I felt really good, even in qualifying I felt pretty good and obviously I just didn’t go quick enough to get through.
“But the feeling 🐼is there, I had a good start and thought I could have fought with my two team-mates.”
Pedro Acosta ‘doesn’t need to think about’ French GP sprint crash
Both factory team KTM riders went down during Saturday’s 13-lap sprint, 🐻with Pedro Acosta crashing at the penultimate corner on the last tour while running fifth.
He was classifieꩵd 19th in th💦e end, but isn’t letting the crash detract from the strong pace he showed on an RC16 more in line with what Maverick Vinales has been racing recently.
“Well, today we don’t need to think about the end of the race because we ꦇneed to take the small good thiওngs around the race,” he said.
“The bike ꦆwas working quite good, also the battle with Maverick was quite nice💛.
“At the end we were just catching backܫ theౠ group fighting for the podium.
“It’s true that still we’re struggling in the first laps - not just 🏅myself but ♒all the KTMs. But anyway, we need to be happy because the pace was there.”
