KTM\u2019s Brad Binder says his speed at the 2025 MotoGP Czech Grand Prix was \u201cnowhere near enough\u201d, after he was classified ninth from the last row of the grid.<\/p>\n
MotoGP\u2019s return to Brno came with it expectations of a good weekend for Brad Binder<\/a>, having taken his maiden premier class victory at the Czech venue in 2020.<\/p>\n But the South African struggled in the wet portions of the weekend on Friday, before putting in a lacklustre qualifying in 19th.<\/p>\n In the grand prix, Binder was able to make forward momentum but only to 10th on the road before being promoted to ninth after a penalty for Gresini\u2019s Fermin Aldeguer.<\/p>\n Binder was 17.371s off the race win and just over 14s adrift of KTM<\/a> team-mate Pedro Acosta<\/a> in third.<\/p>\n Reflecting on his weekend, Binder told the official MotoGP website: \u201cIt was a bit of an up and down weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cIt started off really well in FP1\u2026 well, in the wet. In the dry I struggled a bit.<\/p>\n \u201cBut PR I just never really had the pace in the wet, neither in the Q1.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt like I found extra pace come the sprint race, and then in the main race as well I felt like I made a small improvement.<\/p>\n \u201cHowever it\u2019s nowhere near enough and not where I want to be at all.<\/p>\n \u201cBut currently I\u2019m trying to figure things out, trying to find my speed and I think from 19th on the grid it\u2019s always going to be a bit tricky.<\/p>\n \u201cBut to finish eighth at the end, it\u2019s an improvement.<\/p>\n \u201cI passed a few guys and we\u2019ve just got to keep working and try and figure this thing out.\u201d<\/p>\n Acosta\u2019s podium marked the first for KTM this season and followed a double rostrum in the sprint at Brno.<\/p>\n Binder heads into the summer break 12th in the championship on 68 points, with team-mate Acosta in seventh on 124.<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KTM\u2019s Brad Binder says his speed at the 2025 MotoGP Czech Grand Prix was \u201cnowhere near enough\u201d, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,13844,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-11994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brad-binder","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}