KTM\u2019s Brad Binder has given a blunt \u201cthree out of 10\u201d rating for his 2025 MotoGP season, as his wait for a podium rolls into the final four rounds.<\/p>\n
The South African was one of the darlings of KTM\u2019<\/a>s junior roster on his way up to MotoGP in 2020, where he scored a maiden victory for himself and the brand after just three rounds.<\/p>\n But Brad Binder<\/a>\u2019s victory haul in MotoGP<\/a> stands at just two, with his last coming in a flag-to-flag Austrian Grand Prix in 2021.<\/p>\n He maintained occasional podium visits in the seasons that followed, but remains without a rostrum in what has been a tough 2025 on the factory RC16.<\/p>\n Binder is currently 11th in the points having only taken his best result of the season of fourth two weeks ago in Indonesia. He is 97 points adrift of team-mate Pedro Acosta.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n In a new interview with the official MotoGP website, Binder offered a frank assessment of his 2025 season.<\/p>\n \u201cTo rate my season, I\u2019d give it a solid three out of 10 at the moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been really, really challenging. It\u2019s been a tough year for me.<\/p>\n \u201cThe biggest downfall we have right now is, basically, we are missing speed.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a really different season to previous.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like in my previous years, to get onto the podium was never that hard.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, you could always have a race that goes well, or a couple here or there and everything just falls into place or goes according to plan.<\/p>\n \u201cWhereas, lately it\u2019s felt a lot more difficult to really get everything to fall into place.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s definitely been a challenging time for myself and also KTM. We need to come back up to speed together.\u201d<\/p>\n Team-mate Pedro Acosta has been a regular podium challenger since receiving updates to his KTM after the summer break.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n He was second last time out in Indonesia, while Enea Bastianini and Maverick Vinales have also put in podium performances in 2025 – though the latter\u2019s was stripped from him due to a tyre pressure infringement.<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KTM\u2019s Brad Binder has given a blunt \u201cthree out of 10\u201d rating for his 2025 MotoGP season, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,13844,6399,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-218103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-brad-binder","11":"tag-ktm","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218103","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=218103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}