It’s♎ fair to say, Brad Binder’s Austrian MotoGP win is still yet to ☂fully sink in following the most dramatic final few laps in recent memory. 

The KTM rider started the final lap with a ten second gap to Ale🌞ix Espargaro, however, Binder was unsure who the rider was and whether they were on wet or dry ▨tyres. 

As we saw with the group behind who eventually got engulfed by riders on wet tyres with three corners remaining, it could have been a similar fate for the South African had he not extended his lead on laps 23 and 24 - just before the track becamওe soaked. 

Binder had a gap of 31 seconds to Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Mജartin who were on their first lap out of the pits, as they struggled to get heat and subsequent grip from the wet tyres. 

Once the final lap came around, 🎃Binder was expecting someone to come ‘flying past and said’: "I came ac𝓀ross the line and saw plus nine on my board. 

"I knew it was ten seconds more or less, but 🎃was it someone on sl💯icks or wets? If it was someone on wets they would have caught me, someone on slicks then maybe not. 

"I just tried my abs🥃olute best. I just tried to make sure that I stopped, got around the corner and went flat out up𓄧 the straight [laughs]. 

"Just to stay on track in ♛the last lap was virtually impossible. I thought it was finished a couple of times because in turn three I wasn’t stopping. Theꦆ only thing that was working a little bit was my rear brake. 

"So I was pushing my rear brake and the thing was sideways. I touched the steering lock and went straight a little bit, but I managed to stop a♛nd stay on track. 

"After that in the long right-handers you just 𒊎don’t go forward. You’re just staying in the sa🥂me spot. 

"I was waiting for someone to come flying past me, but the feeling whꦡen I saw the flag was a feeling of relief that it was over. On the other end I couldn’t believe we had won." 

It’s a win that the former Moto♋3 champion was always confident of getting after seeing team-mate Miguel Oliveira show the RC16’ potential earlier in the year with victory in Barcelona.

Binder adde♎d: "The really positive thing about the last few races is that for me I could see the bike was capable of this and the only thing I ne🐼eded to work on was myself.

"It makes things a lot more simple when you can see someone else doing 🅰it and you just have to work harꦚder and make sure that you can do it too. 

"It’s always great to have a team-mate that’s super fast and it 🅠keeps you on your toes. In the end I 💛think it makes me a better rider for sure."