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    Brad the brave!

    Aug 18, 2021 5 minutes
    REPORT NEIL MORRISON
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    GOLD&GOOSE
    “This wasn’t racing. This was surviving” – Binder

    ON THE FACE of it, competition may appear nonsensical when riders and teams work an entire weekend – six sessions or three hours, 20 minutes of track time – only for the final five minutes of a race to deem all that had gone before irrelevant. But when the outcome was this exciting, this dramatic, even this unique, could anyone really complain?

    A heavy shower of rain that arrived five laps from the close of this flag-to-flag race turned an already vintage clash into chaos, packing an already tight top six together. Five of them – Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda), Francesco Bagnaia (Lenovo Ducati), Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha), Jorge Martin (Pramac Ducati) and Joan Mir (Ecstar Suzuki) – pitted for wets.

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