The pair collided at the beginning of the session, whᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚen Binder, who 𒁃was ahead of Fernandez, lost the front after touching a dirty part of the track.

Fernandez also went wide into the turn, and althougౠh he initially saved a crash, the Spaniard had nowhere to go but into Binder as they both crashed.

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“I was behind him and I closed the front first, so it was a mistake as I was pushing the front,” said Fernandez. “But when I saved it he was also closing the front out of the line and I went straight to him. To avoid braking on the dirty line I clo𒊎sed the front.” &nbs൲p;

For꧑ Binder, the crash came on a day where he was v🔴ery strong, especially when he fitted the soft tyre late on.

After finishing f𓆉ourth overall, Binder said: “Today⛎ was all good. This morning started off quite ok. The track is a little bit special; the rear grip is really low. 

“It’s difficult to understand how much you can push it, especially on ꧃throttle but apart from ♊that we tried something this afternoon and didn’t really like it at the beginning. 

“I♈ locked the front and was going wide, then Aꦐugusto locked the front and came sliding and I got collected there. Other than that it was ok. 

“When we put the soft tyre in at the end I was fast and we made it through to Q2. I’ll try and make ⛦more improvements for tomorrow.”

Continuing to talk about track conditions, Binꦍder said the Mandalika circuit felt strange in some areas, but that it was mainly due to ✱the different tyre casing supplied by Michelin. 

“Thi𓂃s track feels a little bit strange in some places. I feel like I hook up really well and then it just lets go. 

“There’s a differe🌼💧nt casing to what we normally use and it’s coming from that. We just need to try and shake everything a bit better to try and keep the grip and not lose it. 

“It’s really weird. It’s like the𒁏re’s not a lot of grip but there’s enough that to understand what’s going on then there is a moment where it just brakes and it has a big slide. 

“The thing is, you need the engine brake to stop but when you turn you kind of need to let it roll. Yo🧜u have to kind of reshape things differently here. It’s all coming down to this different casing.”