Brad Binder bullish despite two crashes: “Zero grip, tyre was basically wood!”
KTM's Brad Binder reac൲ts to twice crashing on Saturday at the Portuguese MotoGP
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder remains bullishly confident about the Portuguese MotoGP despite cra🎉shing in qua𓂃lifying and in the sprint race.
T💮he KTM rider’s first fall on Saturday meant he was restricted ꧒to lining up 10th on the starting grid, where he will resume on Sunday too.
But Binder then also tumbled out of the sprint race in 🔜Portimao.
He reacted: “Today was a tricky one!
“I didn’t feel too bad this morning, ever🔯ything was okay.
“Unfortunately in 🥃Q2 I ended up crashing on 🃏the first flying lap.
“I ran back to the pits and got onto�💙� my spare bike.
“The second tyre I us🍎ed had zero performance, no grip. So that was my qualifying pretty much done.
“I starteꩵd 10th, it’s always tricky starting further back.
“I got 💝a gooꩲd start, got boxed in, couldn’t get through the guys.
“I struggled a little in the faster corners👍 to keep the bike turning.
“I made a little mistake. I ran a little wide, ended up brakinღg the same as I always would.
“I had the🍷 front wheel not quite on the line. When I hit the bump,🤡 it locked up.
“Little crash, nothing serious.
“Better on a Saturday than on a Sunday.”
Binder doesn’t have any concerns about his KTM despite a bad Saturda♚🍸y.
“It’s a track that I’ve struggled at in the past,” he ꦏsaid.
“But ༺we’ve been fast, been okay.꧟ Not difficult to put competitive times together.
“But we got unlucky. The wheels fell off after I crashed. Then I messed up again in t🍸he 🤪race.
“Unfortunately that’s racing.”
Notably his KTM teammate Jack Miller was fifth in the sprint, a sign of what might have been for Binder, who is wi🙈dely considered ܫthe top non-Ducati title contender this season.
“I really believed, if we got༺ going, it would’ve been a different story,” he sai𒅌d.
“ꦿI have the pace to have gon🙈e at the boys. At least given it a good go.
“But I never put it together. I cra🗹shed on the third lap.
“It just wasn’t our day. 𓆏I made my own mistakes. Time to write it off.”
Yet 💟Binder insists a🐽 Sunday turnaround is on the cards.
“Tomorrow will be good for us,” he insisted.
“The medium - most people will run that because theꦐ softs won’t get to the end⛦.
“It’ll be better for us.
“My problems in the 🍃race today were pushing the front.
“🦄We made some changes because I💛 had absolutely zero grip with tyre that was basically wood!”
James was a sports 💎journalist at Sky Sports for a decad﷽e covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
