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Brad Binder
2023 season so far
I think this is the strongest I ' ve ever been . I feel good on the bike , I understand the class much better than I ever have in the past . And yeah , I feel like I ' m ready to do good things . We ' ve been fighting against the Ducatis every weekend . But , you know , they have their strong points , but we also have ours . And I think that going into the second half of the year , we have some points and some things that we can work on , and I ' m pretty sure we can take the fight to them like we have all year . But I think there ' s a little bit more in the pipeline and we can maybe make that last step . When I look back , there ' s been one race over the weekend , at almost all the tracks , where I feel like we could have fought for a podium or been , we were really close at least . And barring some of these mistakes I ' ve made , it could have been a lot better . We ’ re fourth in the World Championship . I don ' t want to be fourth . I want to be a lot further up than that . And , yeah , for me it ' s almost like I have the feeling I ' ve got nothing to lose .
2023 KTM ’ s bike
KTM brought us a little update to actually the first GP in Portimão , and it made a big step . They ' ve done an unreal job , bringing so many small updates from last season , which made a huge step . But the base of the bike has stayed quite similar . I made many mistakes at the beginning of this year , which wasn ' t ideal by any means . But the good thing is I know going forward if I can . We ' ve always had the performance has been there , or there about . So if we can keep the level with a bit less mistakes and even up it a little bit , like I think we can , I think we can do really , really well the second half of the season . There ’ re some small areas I think we can improve , for me it ' s a little bit , the slow corners . I think I need to , me , myself can improve a little bit and also , we can try and find a way to exit them a little bit faster .
Brand Binder ’ s main target
I think there ' s nothing more in the world I would enjoy more than to be able to win a title with Red Bull KTM factory Racing . You know , clearly , I ' ve been with them since I was 13 years old , in the Red Bull MotoGP™ Rookies Cup . It ' s been a long road together , we ' ve had our ups , a lot of them , and we have had some really tough stages too , but we ' ve always come out and achieved , or been really close to , what we wanted to . The way I ' ve always looked at it is that ' s the end goal . But to get there , you got to do everything correct on the day . So to worry about something like that , or keep such an eye on that , of course , that ' s the goal and , you know , that ' s what you want to achieve , but you almost need to forget about those things and just really focus on what you can do on the day . Jack [ Miller ] climbed off of the bike to beat last season , and he brought us a lot of knowledge too . So , he ' s really helped us , you know , at least pointed us in a very good direction of which way we needed to go . And of course , we ' ve already seen the benefits .
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