It was an🥀 eventful day for Brad Binder who mana🧜ged to complete 41 laps, but suffered two crashes late on. 

The South African goes into his second year on the RC16 but with a new team-mate for 2021 in the form of Miguel Oliv🎃eira - third time the pair have been teammat💯es and first time in MotoGP. 

Binder summed up his day the way only Binder can by saying: "What a day! Holy shit. Today was one of those days. It was a little bit difficult this morning and I didn’t feel great but then I re🌊ally started to find my w🗹ay on the bike.

"We had two new sets of tyres and just before I put one new set I fell off. Then when I went on the other bike we put on another set and I fell off without making a lap! We ⛎decided to 🐠call it quits for the day.

"We did get the chance to try a few things that we wanted to and it’s un🅠fortunate to finish the day like this butꩵ luckily we have three good days coming next week."

ℱBInder will get another&n🎐bsp;opportunity to test out the components that he missed out on with a second test yet to come. 

As for what caused the crashes, Binder said: "Both crashes were very similar. Both at the end of the day and I didn’t expect it at all. I washed the front, very slow and itꦦ went away.

"After the first one I thought it might ha😼ve been race distance on the ty⛎res so that was why.

"The last one – the only thing I can see from lookingꦍ at the data is that perhaps a little bit of wind caught me [oh, vicar] because it was ꦜquite a windy area and it upset the front and it just washed.

"As soon as I put the front brake into 14. I had a few looks with my guys a𓄧nd it seems to be what went wrong."

I𝓡t was a better day ♐for Oliveira who finished the day in 11th place, +0.726s off Fabio Quartararo.

Both riders will be action again on M🌟arch 10 for another three day test at the Losail International Circuit.