Fourth today in the Aragon long race, Brad Binder believes he has managed to take a step forward with his KTM RC16 towards the growth that the Austrian team seems to be missing.
Analyzing his race, the South African was happy with the way the race went, even though his plan had come unstuck at the start: ‘My race today was pretty good. I had a great plan last night not to start skidding at the beginning of the race and I had a burnout like yesterday and lost a few positions’.
He continued, regretting the high wear on his front tire and the way he had to ride more with the rear of the bike: ‘This time I had the starter loose and that was very good and then I tried to recover places early on but it was very complicated from the third lap I was behind guys the whole race and I cooked the front tire and used the rear tire a lot to try to manage but I was losing a lot on the entry [of corners] and trying to recover on the exits and that cost me in the last five laps, I had no tire left on the left side’.
Even so, Binder believes that there are positive signs and that he has finally managed to take a step forward:
– Apart from that I think we’ve made a step forward with the bike. We tried something very different with the balance of the bike and it seems to corner a bit better and I feel more confident and I think we’re slowly finding our way.