Brad Binder accepts responsibility for clashes with angry Luca Marini and Miguel Oliveira at Indonesian MotoGP

T𓃲he KTM rider first clattered into Luca Marini, which was the catalyst to end a promising race for the VR46 rider, and then forced Miguel Oliveira wide.
He🍨 received a long lap penalty for each incident but still finished sixth, before visiting an angry Marini who accepted his apology.
Binder said: “This ꦍhas bee🔜n a difficult weekend for us. Fast on new tyres but we only found decent pace in the race today, yesterday I struggled in the beginning.
“I didn’t get a bad start, it was okay, I was figuring out the🌺 medium tyre which I hadn’t used since Friday.
“Unfortunately I had a little shake at Turn 8, when I went to gra🍨b my front brake I pulled it into my finge𒐪rs.
“I started to panic bec🐼ause I had two guys on the outside.
“I stamped on my rear brake and tried to get around all 🏅the riders.
“I’m really sorry that I ended up hitting Luca and destroying his🀅 race. I’m sorry to his team for destroyꦉing what could have been a really good day for them.
“After that, I was pushing too hard, trying to come thro♈ugh the field.
“When I had the moment with Miguel, I was ♈a littl✃e bit hot. I had to dive inside at the last moment, and I clipped him too.
“I really deserved both long lap penalties to🦹day.♕ Sorry to both riders and both teams.”

'You have a responsibility to not hit anybody'
Marini was left frustrated🥃 and claiming he could’ve finished on the podium without Binder’s intervention.
“It doesn’t matter what happens, you have a responsibility to not hit anybody on track, to 💟not 🐈put anybody else in danger,” Binder said.
“I had it earlier😼 in the day when my brakes opened but hadn’t had it in the race.
“I thoug♉ht the guys had fixed my problem but the reality is, if you get head-shake, they open.
“I was very lucky that I still had a bit of pressure. Had I had nothing, who I woulไd’ve hit? What would’ve happened? It would have been at a much higher spe🌼ed.
“U♏nfortunately things like this can happen. I’m really sorry✤ to them.
“It’s never anyone’s inten♒tion to create an outcome like this for a꧋nyone else’s race.”
He detailed th๊e incident with Oliveira: “I had a little bit of an advantage to them on the brakes.
“By that time they’d started to overcook their soft front🍸 tyre.
“So the marker I was using in Turn💟 2 was quite a bit later than theirs.
“I didn’t expect it, didn’t anticipate it.
“When we grabbed the brake I star🦹ted pulling towards the back of him, then decided I h♎ad to go inside to avoid him.
“Unfortunately I clipped the side of him.”

James w♚as a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to foo𝓡tball, to F1.