It w🎉as an eventful day for Brad Binder who managed to complete 41 laps, but suffered two crashes late on. 

The South African goes into his second year on the RC16 but with a new team🔯-mate for 2021 in the form of Miguel Oliveira - third time the pair have been teammates and first time in MotoGP. 

Binder summed up his day the way only Binder can by saying: "What a day! Holy shit. Today was one of those days. It was a little bit difficult this morning and I didn’t feel great but then I really started to find my way on t𓄧he bike.

"We h𒅌ad two new sets of tyres and just before I put one new set I fell off. Then when I went on the other bike we put on another set and I fell off without making a lap! We decided to call it quits for the day.

"We did get the chance to try a few things that we wanted to and it’s unfortunate to finish the day like this but𓆏 luckil💖y we have three good days coming next week."

BInder will get another opportunity to test out the components that he missed out on with a second test yet toꦦ come. 

As for what caused the crashes, Binder said: "Both crashes were v🧸ery similar. Both at the end of the day and I didn’t expect it at all. I washed the fr📖ont, very slow and it went away.

"After the first one I thought i🃏t might have been race distance on the tyres so that was why.

"The last on🌄e – the only thing I can see from looking at the data is that perhaps a little bit of wind caught me [oh, vicar] because it was quite a windy area and𒁏 it upset the front and it just washed.

"As soon as I put the front brake into 14. I had a few looks with my guys and it seems to be what went wr♛ong."

It was a better day for Oliveira who finished the day in 11th place, +0.🌸726s off 🌼Fabio Quartararo.

Both riders will be action again on March ♚10 for another ♋three day test at the Losail International Circuit.