Today was a less happy day for Brad Binder, and a lot of it was due to… too much speed. The South African had problems slowing down his bike, which made it difficult for him to enter corners, but he emphasised at the end that this situation served as another learning experience for the team.
Analysing his day, the KTM rider spoke about the Warm Up and how he believed he had solved some less positive situations, something that didn’t come true one race later: ‘Today was a somewhat complicated race. In the Warm Up we tried a few things that worked very well […]. In the race I struggled to stop the bike in all the braking zones, and I felt that I was never able to slow down and if you don’t brake well you don’t turn well, and today the thing I struggled with the most was the constant loss of the front of the bike. It was difficult to manage at first, I tried to be patient, to understand what was going on and whether it would get better during the race, but I didn’t get that far…’.
Binder then explained that the failure was crucial: ‘I ended up tucking the front of the bike after nine or ten laps and that was basically the end of the day, there’s not much to say. Already yesterday we had a lot of locking coming from the rear of the bike, the engine braking didn’t work well or at least it wasn’t working as well as we would have liked […]’.
The high temperature on the tarmac was a determining factor: ‘With the track temperature at 20ºC it doesn’t seem to work and it complicated everything, but I think it was a good learning day for us. We know which way to go when things don’t work as well as they did here’.