Brad Binder accepts responsibility for clashes with angry Luca Marini and Miguel Oliveira at Indonesian MotoGP
The KTM rider first clattered into Luca Marini, which was the catalyst to e💙nd a promising race for the VR46 rider, and then forced Miguel Oliveira wide.
He received a long lap penalty for each incident but still finishe🎃d sixthᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ, before visiting an angry Marini who accepted his apology.
Binder said: “This has been a difficult weekend for us. Fast on new tyres but we only foun♛d decent pace in the race today, yesterday I struggled in the beginning.
“I didn’t get a bad start, i൲t 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 grab my front brake I pulled it into my fingꦡers.
“I started to panic because 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 s𓃲orry to his team for destroying what could have been a really good day for them.
“After that, I was pushing too hard, trying to come thro🍸ugh th🐠e field.
“When I h🎀ad the moment with Miguel, I was a little bit hot. I had to dive inside at the last moment, and I clipped him too.
“I really deser๊ved both long lap penalties today. Sorry to both riders and both t🗹eams.”
'You have a responsibility to not hit anybody'
Marini was left frustrated and claiming he could’ve finished on the podium without 💎Binder’s interv🅠ention.
“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 thought the guys had fixed my problem but tꦺhe reality is, if you get head-shake, they open.
“I was very lucky that I still had a bit of pre𝔉ssure. Had I had nothing, who I woul🐬d’ve hit? What would’ve happened? It would have been at a much higher speed.
“Unfortunately th🍰ing🍨s like this can happen. I’m really sorry to them.
“It’s nev𝄹er anyone’s intention to create an outcome like this for anyone else’s race.”
He detailed the incident with Oliveira: “I had a li⭕ttle bit🐓 of an advantage to them on the brakes.
“By that time they’d starteꦿd to overcook their soft front tyre.
“So the marker I was using in Turn 2 w🐽൩as quite a bit later than theirs.
“I didn’t expect it, didn’t anticipate it.
“When we grabbed the brake I starte꧟d pulling towards the back of him, then decided I had to go insi🌱de to avoid him.
“Unfortunately I clipped the side of him.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky S𝓰ports for a decade covering everything from Amﷺerican sports, to football, to F1.
