RiderTua.com – From 17th on the grid, Brad Binder had to settle for P9 and lost 15 seconds to winner Maverick Vinales (Aprilia) at COTA Austin. His legendary comeback attempt failed miserably this time. Binder got off to a fantastic start, so he started with the only positive aspect of the day. The other riders were getting further away from him because Binder’s rear tire couldn’t grip. “He couldn’t run the race well,” said the Red Bull KTM rider, who had experienced problems on the warm-up lap.
Brad Binder added that going from the start and not knowing how things would go was difficult. As I approached turn 1, I pulled out because there was chaos on the inside. But then there was a rider who hit his bike and broke the winglet on the left side plus the winglet on the back. Running a 20 lap race at COTA without two winglets is chaos.
Brad Binder: Rear Tires Lack of Grip, Winglets Missing!
Furthermore, Darryn Binder’s older brother (Moto2) explained, “The bike is unbalanced on one side (because the winglet is missing), especially on the straight. It’s quite unstable and we have to take a lot of precautions. If we lose the entire rear winglet, we no longer has downforce. It’s very difficult to manage it.”
After the race went haywire, Binder was only in P15. From lap 5 onwards, Binder’s rear tire worked very well. He can go faster, more than 1 second per lap. But it really wasn’t a good weekend. Unfortunately, things got out of hand at the wrong time. The results were not as bad as expected, said the rider from South Africa.
Regarding the tire problem, the rider nicknamed BradAttack explained that this was the first time something like this had happened to him. It’s natural that sometimes the previous day’s tires need time to function, but new tires are not necessary. He really had no luck with that.
For the next series at Jerez, Jack Miller‘s teammate revealed that currently he is happy to be able to race at another track. Honestly, on paper this looks bad, but things aren’t that bad this weekend. According to him he played around too much this weekend and then made mistakes at crucial moments. That definitely doesn’t help. Maybe Binder was a little too optimistic. Austin is also probably the bumpiest track on the MotoGP calendar and it’s not exactly fun.
