Brad Binder on Francesco Bagnaia horror at Catalunya MotoGP: “Every rider’s worst nightmare, I tried to miss him”
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- Floored Bagnaia struck by B♊inder amid awful crash at Catalun♕ya MotoGP
A terrifying incident on the first lap in Barcelona saw a multi-rider pile-up before Bagnaia highsided and landed in front of oncomin🧔g traffic, and was struck in the legs by Binder.
Bagnaia was conscious but rushed to the medical centre, and Binder later retired early from the restarte▨d race before heading over to 𝄹check on his fellow rider.
“Crazy lasꦗt couple of hours,” the KTM rider emotionally de♍tailed.
“I got a🌄 really good launch in the race, and I was be𒁏tween Maverick and Miguel going through Turn 1 and 2.
“On the exit of 2, I didn’t see a thing. Until I saw Pecᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚco and his 🌃bike in the middle of the track.
“Then I clipped something on his bike. I was shaking trying to miss him, then I clipped his leg, ꦐor something.
“Yeah, I don’t really know. I ended up falling.
“Thank goodness I saw▨ him moving. He’s obviously hurt but seems fine.”
After Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini (who was injured in the initial pile-up) were transported🐼 to hospital, the red-flagged grand prix was able to restart.
“I went back andꦇ started the race again. I never had a back-up hard,” Binder said.
“The start was okay, I had to try and bring temperature to it, I did that.🌱 Then we had a technical issue.”
He immed🌱iately visited𒀰 Bagnaia who was still on his mind.
“I went to see Pecco. He seems okay.
“It’s really… the trickies♔t part is to get back on, and carry on. The good thing was that I saw him move. He was ☂moving.
“I just clipped his leg,𒉰 or legs, I don’t quite know. But I got over enoug💞h that, at least, I didn’t hit him square.
“I♔t’s every rider’s 🥃worst nightmare. To see someone there is scary but to be the one who hits them is even more shit, to be honest.
“I don’t know if he’s okay, but he’s fine, you kno⛦w 🌊what I mean?”
Binder actually said that he found Bagnaia in a better staꦗte than expected.
“I went to see him,” he said.
“Honestly, when I walked in there, I wasn’t expecting to see h🉐im chilling! He seemed okay!
“My ꦯonly priority today is that I never hurt aꦫnybody.”
Aleix Esp🤪argaro won the Catalunya MotoGP, fending off Aprilia teammate Maverick Vinales.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sp🦩orts, to footbඣall, to F1.
