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In light of Pedro Acosta's crash and Jack Miller's 11th place finish, Brad Binder proved to be the best KTM rider in the Assen round . Quite satisfied with the sensations he felt in the saddle, particularly in the start stages, the South African highlighted some deficits that are continuing to negatively affect the behavior of the RC16.
"It was a pretty difficult race ," admitted the seventh-place finisher of the day, " I got off to a good start, even better than expected in light of the proximity of the first corner, but that didn't get me anywhere, in the sense that I couldn't make up any positions. We had opted to fit soft on the rear to give us an advantage in the early stages, however, in order to stay attached to the leading group, I wore it out a lot and already after ten laps it was dropping. Looking at the positive, however, we have learned something, particularly with regard to the changes made to the set-up and the innovations brought in to take the step forward we need to be able to compete with the best."
With a thread of irony, the 28-year-old wanted to highlight another comforting aspect. "Considering how many times I crashed during the weekend, to have seen the finish line is already a good thing; moreover, in the race I was able to be more in tune with the front, which then was one of our goals since so far in the GPs I had always suffered in that respect. Now we hope to continue like this."
Making a comparison with Ducati and its way of using the new rear tire, the Austrian team's rider remarked, "Actually there has been an overall improvement given by the 2024 tire updates, but the Italians manage to exploit it to its full potential, while we don't, so we will have to try to intercept their trick and adopt it. The heated front end? For the first time we all used it and it gave a very good response, without bringing out any kind of problem."
At the end of the race Bastianini elected him as a great breaker and as such hard to overcome. "This weekend I tried them all, however braking later and following the same trajectories as the Desmosedicis I didn't feel I was able to imitate them, on the contrary I had the feeling of losing the apex, so I always tried to cut corners early. Let's say I was not able to put in a consistent performance on the track to be able to progress. Vibration problems? Something, but not like in the past," he concluded his analysis.
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