KTM Festival in Sprint with victory for Binder, Miller 3rd and Pedrosa 6th

KTM takes center stage at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez. not just because the world’s best tester Dani Pedrosa He monopolized all the praise from him and others for what he was doing in Jerez but because they almost won the Sprint double this Saturday with the two official drivers. Brad Binder has added his second victory in the Sprint, this time in the dry and in all predicaments, and Jack Miller lost second place on the last lap at the hands of pecco bagnaia. In his first Sprint experience Dani Pedrosa added more than a treacherous sixth place.

From pole position, the KTMs of Miller and Binder lost Aleix Espargaro from pole position, Pedrosa lost a place at the expense of Oliveira and Quartararo went from 16th to 8th, and at turn 2 the big mess was settled when Morbidelli after carrying out a very aggressive on Alex Márquez and Johann Zarco, he threw Alex and Bezzecchi and Augusto Fernández were also involved trying to avoid the fallen motorcycles and riders. And when the leader of the race reached Nieto-Peluqui they showed a red flag. After everyone returned to the pits by various means, the original grid was repeated and Sprint in 11 laps, one less.

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Binder and Miller again led the race at the start and polesitter Aleix Espargaró was also passed by the Ducati of Martin and Bagnaia. Pedrosa, who had maintained sixth place at the start, lost two of the always difficult first corners at Jerez.

Martin for a while he was between the two Red Bull KTM works until the Australian regained second place. A leading septet closed by Pedrosa had established himself in the lead from the third lap. Dani set the fastest lap of the race in the previous lap with 1’37″927.

on the fourth turn Miller he passed Binder when Alex Márquez crashed again at turn 2, but this time cleanly. Third zero in a row for who was the best Spanish rider classified in the World Cup before Austin. And on the sixth lap, polesitter Aleix Espargaró crashed at turn 9 when he was fifth.

With three left, when they had a few meters on the Ducatis, the two KTMs started to fight for the lead which Miller kept while the third KTM Pedrosa tried to do the same to Oliveira, who was a stopper for him. And so they followed through another turn and Binder, already victorious in the Argentina Sprint, regained the initiative.

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Pedrosa set the fastest lap of the race

at the last turn Bagnaia He took advantage of the fact that Miller was going wide in turn 6 to pass him for second place, but Binder had already slipped four tenths of a second and kept the initiative until the checkered flag. Miller defended himself from the harassment of Martín who finished fourth ahead of Oliveira and an excellent Dani Pedrosa who was again greeted with loud applause on his return to the box.

Bezzecchi remains the leader by 3 points

Marco Bezzecchi, ninth, maintained his lead over Pecco Bagnaia by three points and 17 over Maverick Viñales, who came in seventh and again weighed down at the start. Fabio Quartararo came in at twelfth.

As for other Spaniards Maverick Viñales was seventh, Alex Rins 13th, Raúl Fernández 14th, Augusto Fernández 17th and Iker Lecuona 18th. Joan Mir crashed on the eighth lap, Aleix Espargaró on the sixth lap and Alex Márquez on the fourth lap, all crashing at the front.