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it for the championship. You need to take it easy
and get points.' And I don't believe that so much. I
believe if you go out there and do your job the way
you know how to, and the way you have been do-
ing in the past, it's the only way to carry on getting
the results.
"At Brno I felt comfortable. Everything was go-
ing perfectly. The only thing I'm really
angry about is that I saw it was raining
more and I didn't do anything about
it. I just felt so good, and it was just a
bit more water. Then I had an aqua-
planing moment, and that was me. All
done."
The best moment was winning the
title at Aragon, "even though we came
second, and I was bleeped because
of that, I looked over to the left and
saw my whole team hanging over the
pit wall going crazy. And then I realized
it was all done. We'd won the world
championship.
"After I won it I really struggled. I
don't know how to explain it. I haven't
tried to explain it to anybody. But it's a
feeling: 'Now what?' I expected every-
thing to change, and nothing did.
"Every morning since December
the previous year I'd been waking up
and I'd go and train my ass off with
the goal to be world champion. And
all of a sudden, after winning it, you
realize nothing changes. It's just a
title. I expected this huge awesome
thing, but at the end of the day, once
it's done—afterwards I realized it's not
"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…"
the title you enjoy. It's all the races getting to the
title. The good days, when things go well; the
horrible days when they aren't going well and
you dig deep—those are the things that make the
title special."
Binder's next move is to Moto2, taking the
place of departing champion Johann Zarco, stay-
