Brad Binder, who made a great comeback in the Sprint race and was one of the standouts of the Misano GP due to his spectacular overtakes, crashed in Sunday’s race and finished in 14th position.
Asked about his weekend, Binder said he was disappointed with his crash: “It wasn’t the Sunday I had in mind, I was able to keep the pace with the riders in front, but unfortunately I lost the front and that was the end of the race for me. The feeling I had was simply that the front end was slipping and I ended up crashing. The aim was to finish in the top three, because yesterday in the Sprint I had a good pace, but today I messed up. When you have bikes in front of you, the front tire heats up a lot and I felt that a few corners before I crashed. It was my mistake not to think about it beforehand and it was my fault.
Tire pressure is increasingly important for the riders and for the condition of the tires during the race, and Brad Binder spoke a little about the situation during the race: ‘ The pressure of the front tire when there are three bikes in front of you goes up a lot, what you feel the most is the temperature gets really high. When it starts to heat up you don’t have any movement at the front and the tire locks up a lot because there’s no rubber to grip, which makes it more difficult.