For the best part of a week, SA’s Brad Binder has had to keep secret that not only will he be stepping up to MotoGP, the elite class of motorcycle racing, but that he will be doing so as part of the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team.

It had been announced in July that the 24-year-old Binder would be racing in MotoGP with the Red Bull Tech 3 squad, the satellite team of KTM’s MotoGP programme, but on Thursday, ahead of this weekend’s Australian GP at Phillips Island, Binder confirmed he would be with KTM’s top team...

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