Brad Binder knew there would be days like these. But, perhaps, not days like Sunday’s MotoGP Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria, when he saw madness and life flash before his eyes, when he rode the storm and the rookie rode like a veteran.
Binder finished fourth in his fourth MotoGP on Sunday, a week to the day he took his first victory. He started in 17th on the grid, and after a race that had crashes that could have cost lives, a stroppy fit that cost a victory, and weather that defied dire forecasts of rain, he came home about four seconds off the podium. ..
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