{"id":630977,"date":"2026-04-26T00:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630977\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:26:11","slug":"brad-binder-heartbroken-as-win-on-the-cards-slips-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630977\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Binder \u201cheartbroken\u201d as \u201cwin on the cards\u201d slips away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Binder famously stayed on slicks in the rain for his 2021 Austrian MotoGP win.<\/p>\n<p>But the opposite decision put the South African on course for a Sprint victory at Jerez on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/red-bull-ktm-factory-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull KTM<\/a> rider was the first to pit for wet tyres when a mid-race downpour arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Pecco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez and Franco Morbidelli then followed &#8211; and went on to fill the podium.<\/p>\n<p>However, Binder missed out after crashing on wet tyres, moments before he would have inherited the lead from the last remaining slick-tyre riders.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Binder remounted and still claimed his best result of the season, with fourth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy and heartbroken\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy and heartbroken at the same time,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/939427\/brad-binder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Binder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I timed my pit-entry well, but from one lap to the next there was so much [more] water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I braked in the same place I was like: \u2018Oh s**t\u2019. Lost the front, slid off, picked up and carried on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuper disappointed in myself because if I hadn\u2019t crashed, I know it would have been a win on the cards there.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut sometimes sh*t happens and unfortunately, it you\u2019re going to bail, and you still come fourth, it\u2019s a good day I suppose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Binder took the chequered flag 8.752s behind race winner Marquez, who profited from his own accident by pulling into the pits after initially deciding to stay out.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Binder famously stayed on slicks in the rain for his 2021 Austrian MotoGP win. But the opposite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,13844,6399,806,805,803,804,10670,85],"class_list":["post-630977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brad-binder","tag-ktm","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-red-bull-ktm-factory-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630977","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=630977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}