Styrian MotoGP, Austria: 'I cannot think of anything more scary'

MotoGP rꦚookie Brad Binder said he 'cannot think of anything more scary as꧑ a rider' than the kind of high-speed brake failure experienced by Maverick Vinales in Sunday's Styrian Grand Prix,

The Monsteꦜr Yamaha rider was forced to jump off at 230km/h when his overheating brakes 'explod🅘ed' into Turn 1, on lap 17 of the race, fortunately escaping unscathed.

"To make the decision to jump-off? Jeez: I don’t know how ⛄you can come to the point where you decide ‘I need to get off the thing’. It is s♍uper-super scary," said Binder, race winner at Brno.

'I cannot think of anything more scary'

MotoGP rookie Brad Binder said he 'can𒁃not think of anything more scary as a rider' than th𓆉e kind of high-speed brake failure experienced by Maverick Vinales in Sunday's Styrian Grand Prix,

The Monster Yamaha rider was forced to jump offꦍ at 230km/h when his overheating brakes 'exploded' into Turn 1, on lap 17 of ♌the race, fortunately escaping unscathed.

"To make the decision to jump-off? Jeez: I don’t know how you can come to th✃e point where you de🥀cide ‘I need to get off the thing’. It is super-super scary," said Binder, race winner at Brno.

"I was speaking to Fabio [Quartararo] just now and he was having the same issue with the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:brakes coming all🎶 the way 🌌back to the handlebar. They have turned t🔥he lever [adjustment] all the way♈ up, but it has still faded to the bar.

"I hope they get it all⛦ sorted soon. I cannot think of anything🅰 more scary as a rider."

The South African said that he had not experienced any real braking issues with his KTM over the two Au♐strian weekends.

"Honestly I have been really lucky this weekend and the last.𒅌 We have not had any issues with the brakes," he said.

"I've had a bit of a spongey feeling sometimes but it’s never anything I am going to worry about when I ride in the int🎃o the next corner and not have any brakes.

"We are lucky and I have no idea wh♌y they are cooking the brakes and we are not. All I know is that I’m glad it’s not me."

LCR Honda's Cal Crutꦍchlow, who was two places behind Vinales when he bailed off, believes something needs to change - whether to the circuitꦿ or the braking systems - to make braking less critical at the Red Bull Ring.

"First of all, I’m happy to be leaving here. But the incidents we’ve seen over these last weeks we can’t just blame on the nature of the track, honestly speaking. These could happen at other racetrack🍃s around the world," Crutchlow said, referring to the big accidents for Hafizh Syahrin in Moto2 and Franco Morbidelli-Johann Zarco in MotoGP last weekend, prior to the Vinales' incident.

"But what is right, or wrong, is this track is not good for our bik꧋es and the brakes.

"We saw today - that could have happene൩d to anybody. Maybe Maverick braked really late at one point, i♊t’s gone over the temperature.

"Then he’s had a brake problem after, because I ⛎saw him drop back. Then he came back in front of me and Alex [Marquez] and suddenly I just saw him jump off the bike in the straight, which obviously we know is a brake problem.

"We can’t keep having that 🐬happen. What we can do about it? I have no idea. But that is a real safety concern. I can tell you that. Having no brakes on these bikes…

"In defence to the circuit, the organisers, et cetera, they moved that [Turn 1] wall back a few years ago. They madeཧ some adjustments to thaꦜt. Imagine if they didn’t? It could have been a lot, lot worse.

"So, we have to look at this. Obviously, I’m sure we’ll discuss it between us꧅, the teams, and the riders and see what we can do."

Sunday's race winner Miguel O𒀰liveira and fellow podium finishers Jack Miller and Pol Espargaro (all Red Bull b✱acked) felt the red flag incidents were not due to a lack of track safety, but indicated improvements will be made for 2021.

"I think we had quite particular events happening leading to the red flags," Oliveira said. ♒"I think there is not a big problem with the track. But we kno🍨w a couple of things need to be maybe changed on the layout. It’s I think still an open discussion. I think we are going to see a safer Red Bull Ring for next season."

"Today’s red flag, I didn’t see any replays, but from what I gathered from what the team said and just speaking to Maverick before, it seemed like he had no brakes. This is unavoidable anyway. It happens in Motegi. It happens at these places where the brakes ar🀅e on the limit," Miller said.

"In all honesty, we probably could have kept racing but the rules are now if we blow an airfence they red flag and fix it. I think ꦰit was a no-brainer this weekend🦩, but like Miguel said I think we’ll keep working in the Safety Commission, coming up with plans to try and make this place safer for next year."

Espargaro added: "Both of them just said quite clearly. I 🦄think in the first race last weekend it was a human mistake that made this big mess. Then for sure the red flag today was a matter of a brake problem.

"For sure the track in some places it can be improved, that’s for sure. Dorna and the Safety Commission is working on it, but at the end🉐 [the red flags] were for two problems, one human and one mechanical, so nothing about the track actually."

Speaking before Sunday's race, Zarco also indicated tওhat Red Bull would be willing to change the track.

"We have been speaking about the crash [with Morbidelli], b🍬ut only to change the track," Zarco said after Saturday evening's meeting of the ride🉐rs' Safety Commission.

"The Red Bull Ring can handle aꩲ lot of things. The Red Bull mindset is nothing can stop them; if we want to change something, they will do it."

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