INTERVIEW
FIM MOTO3 WORLD CHAMPION BRAD BINDER
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ing with the Ajo team. He is keep-
ing his expectations in proportion.
"For every Rins or Vinales
[winning races in their first Moto2
seasons] there are guys like Alex
Marquez or Danny Kent, who won
Moto3 and then struggled in Moto2.
I'm not setting any goals. My priority is just to do
my best, whether it is top 20 in the first race or
the top five."
He has two years with Ajo in Moto2, but turned
aside rumors of an option of MotoGP with KTM.
Likewise any notion that he should have followed
Jack Miller straight up to MotoGP, confident that
Moto2 is the correct training path.
"Moto3 is a class where you learn how to fight
and how to get good race-craft, but at the end
of the day anybody can go fast on a Moto3 bike.
Well, not anybody, but if you go to a track with
a long straight and you sit behind a guy you are
going to stay behind the guy, whereas in Moto2
you don't have that same effect. If you look how
consistent the guys are in Moto2, that's where the
biggest difference is. They have super rhythm,
and it's the same guys every weekend."
The day after this interview, Binder won his final
race at Valencia—another landmark ride—though
after a slip dropped him out of the top 20. Barely
a week later, his Moto2 career started badly, with
a crash in testing that broke his arm and wrist.
The South African has a winter break to get
over it. Then we shall see. CN
Highly regarded
within the KTM
factory, Binder
hopes to progress
through the team's
Moto2 outfit before
ultimately hitting
MotoGP.
"MY BIGGEST DOWNFALL, THE LAST COUPLE OF
YEARS, IS I ALWAYS USED TO STRESS MYSELF OUT,
AND BASICALLY JUST GET IN A TIZZ."
