Brad Binder closed in on the top five today at Sepang in the Sprint race and at the end of the race he admitted that he had suffered a lot from tyre problems. Unhappy with his team, he hopes to see luck smile on him tomorrow in this respect.
Analysing his race, the south african recalled qualifying and how his race went in general terms: ‘Today was a bit tricky. In the qualifying I was struggling more than I wanted to, I had a lot of front chatter and it was a bit difficult to manage but I think we figured out why so there’s no big issue. Going to the race everything felt good. I had good pace all weekend, felt really good and unfortunately on the first part of the race for some reason my rear tyre on the left hand side was shocking, that was a bit disappointing for sure because I was losing so much on the track, on that side. Anyway I tried my best, luckily there wasn’t many laps and that helped a lot. In general I did my best, fought until the end and I’m excited to see what we can do tomorrow’.
With tomorrow already in sight, the KTM rider hopes to reverse his fortunes tomorrow: ‘This weekend we had a lot of tyres, some are better than the others and I was a bit unlucky by getting a shit one in the race but hopefully the one we get tomorrow is the best of the weekend’.
With the issue of tyre pressure very much on the table lately, the rider spoke about managing that part:
– My front tyre was quite chaotic. I was missing a lot of grip on the left, specially when braking into nine, I don’t have the help from the rear tyre so I was rellying a lot on the front end. When the pressure went through the roof it was really hard to manage but as soon as I got a little bit of clean air and passed Jack [Miller] it cooled off a bit again and came into working range again. It felt a lot better and you can do your job again but you get into a stage you feel you are getting so much risk even pushing. It’s really… I know it’s the rules but it just makes it a lot difficult.