MotoGP Assen: Brad Binder: 'Hats off to Aleix, somehow he bombed both of us!'
The South African was lining up his own pass on future KTM team-mate Miller for fourth place, when Espargaro su⛦ddenly ‘dive bombed’ them both on the brakes.
“I felt like I did 25 laps of qualifying,” Binder said afterwards. “It was a good race, I was losing a ton of time in somౠe places and making up quit🍒e well in others.
“The guys did a great ꧃job,✤ the best bike I had all weekend was the one in the race and I thought I had fourth in the bag, but clearly not…”
Binder: ‘As soon as I picked it up, I went straight into Jack’
Aಞs Espargar🐼o shot past, Binder was forced to adjust his line, which in turn caused him to tag Miller’s elbow.
“I went to pass Jack, because I saw that he was maybe runnin𝓀g into some tyre issues or something,” Binder explained. “It looked like he was really stru𒊎ggling on the throttle.
in the last corner is just unreal! — MotoGP (@MotoGP)Jack Miller: ‘I wasn't expecting it, that was my fault’
While Esparg💧aro🎃 ourbraked both Binder and Miller, made the apex without issue and snatched fourth, Miller ran wide after the contact from Binder and dropped to sixth, behind the South African.
Miller wasn’t impr🌟essed with the contact immediately after the race but took a different view after seeing it from other angles and blamed himself for not covering the line.
ꦉ“I lost all my speed onto the front straight [when trying to pass Vinales the previous lap] and that put me in ran🅷ge of these other two to attack me on the last lap,” said the factory Ducati rider.
“[I was surprised๊ by] Aleix and Brad, to be honest. I copped a handlebar to the elbow and didn't really have anywhere to go.
“I wasn't expecting it, no. So that was my fault.🌼 Like I sa𝄹id, I take full responsibility of that, but it is what it is.
“I'm really happy wit🌃h the race up until the last lap. I could have done things bet꧒ter, but that's racing. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.”
Brad Binder: ‘Hats off to the dude!’
Asked by David Emmett of Motomatters.com if Espargaro’s double pass had been clean or despe💛rate, Binder quipped:
“꧟To be honest, buddy, f**king hats off to the dude!
"I was coming in hot, obviously, to try andꦐ pass Jack.
"Somehow, he bombed both of us!”
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