Brad Binder admits \u201cit wasn\u2019t looking great\u201d for him to be able to get to the end of the 28-lap MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix prior to the race.
Brad Binder admits “it wasn’t looking great” for him to be able to get to the end of the 28-lap MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix prior to the race.The KTM rider celebrated a brace of second-place finishes at the team’s home round at the Red Bull Ring last weekend, after followingBinder ran Bagnaia close in the early stages of both contests but was quickly dropped by the Ducati rider, with the South African over five seconds adrift at the chequered flag on Sunday.
“Today was a carbon copy of the sprint race,” he said on Sunday. “On the same lap, at the same corner, I realised I was not going forward and I could just see that little bit of creeping start [from Bagnaia]. “I had to really calm myself down a bit, except where we were losing time and not make it up in places where it was not really possible. So, I had to try to be clever, try and make the rear tyre go to the end because we knew coming into this main race that would be the challenge.
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