And Bagnaia later admitted Binder ꦇ;was corre💃ct.

KTM’s launch superiority is well known𒈔 this season and, with Binder starting from a rare front row, not far behind pole man Bagnaia, 🦄the South African must have fancied his chances of beating the Ducati to Turn 1.

Although Binder (and team-mate Jack Miller) left ✱second on the grid Maverick Vinales for dust, Bagnaia comfortably won the holeshot&nbs🅠p;battle in both the Sprint and Grand Prix. The pair then remained first and second, respectively, to the chequered flags.

While waitingꦡ for Sunday’s podium ceremony Bagnaia, Binder and third-place Marco Bezzecchi were shown a replay of the start on TV.

“Hey, you bastards did something on the start, eh?” Smiled Binder, tapping Bagn😼aia on the shoulder with ꦅhis fist.

“My start was fᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ**king good, but… not as good as normal!” Binder added.

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Bagnaia didn’t respond and continu✅ed watching the replays.

But when later quizzed by the media about why the Ducati seemed to have been so ꦦmuch stronger off the line, he confirmed:

“For the start, it’s clear that it’s something [new] we had to our bike, but it’s something that I prefer someone above - in Ducati 🐬- to speak about because I don't want to be the first one [to say what it is].

“It’s something that helped me in the first part of acceleration. That was the moment I was losing the most because they [KTM] can b𒀰e super aggressive i💎n the first part of acceleration, and us with the carbon clutch it's more difficult, this kind of acceleration.

“But we improved on that and it was 𝐆so helpful. We won both races and we already had a great chance to do that, thanks to the start.ဣ”

MotoGP.com comm💃entator and pitlane reporter Simon Crafar suggested there was also something different about Ducati's holeshot device switch in Austria.