Brad closes his #MugelloGP weekend with P11

Mugello cooked in more high temperatures as the current European heatwave created stuffy, breezy and demanding race conditions for the 5.2km, 15-corner Mugello layout, surrounded by a record 178,700 event attendance. Pedro Acosta, Enea Bastianini, Brad Binder and Maverick Viñales rolled their KTM RC16s into 10th, 11th, 14th and 19th positions on the starting grid for the 23-laps.

Brad gained and then faced an onslaught of attention from three riders behind him as the quartet circulated closely for P10 in the final laps. Brad strived to bank the highest amount of points and finished 11th.

Brad Binder
11th and 12 in the championship

“Two 11th positions to write-off the weekend and far from what I was expecting. We had some highs and lows here but generally we missed some pace. I was not able to roll enough, especially through sector three and onto the main straight. It was difficult to find what we missed to go with the group in front of me. We were stuck a bit in No Man’s Land. We need to find some speed soon.”