SA’s Brad Binder, headed for the big stage of MotoGP next season, celebrated his birthday with an emotional, historic and bittersweet victory for his Red Bull KTM Ajo team at the Moto2 Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on Sunday. 

In a race marked by desperate crashes by those pursuing him, Binder, who turned 24 on Sunday, held off Spain’s Alex Marquez to take his first victory of 2019 and his fourth win in three years in the Moto2 class. ..

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