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A DAY AT<br />
THE TRACK<br />
WITH BRAD BINDER<br />
We managed to spend a day with Brad Binder at the Misano<br />
circuit in Italy where he was testing some new parts for KTM.<br />
While I was over in Italy, for World<br />
Ducati week, I got a phone call<br />
from a certain Mr Brad Binder, who<br />
had seen via my Instagram that I was<br />
at the Misano circuit. He informed me<br />
that he would be testing at the famous<br />
Marco Simoncelli track on the Monday<br />
and Tuesday following WDW and<br />
wanted to know if I would like to join<br />
him for the test? Of course my answer<br />
was yes and thanks to my mom, who<br />
happens to be the best travel agent in<br />
the world, my flight was changed from<br />
the Sunday night to the Tuesday night<br />
allowing me to join my little buddy on<br />
the Monday for his first day of testing.<br />
Words and Pics: Rob Portman<br />
I was really excited as it has been a<br />
while since I have seen Brad in action<br />
up close and personal, and I was really<br />
keen to see what exactly they get up to<br />
when testing.<br />
What a great sight it was seeing<br />
those two big factory race rigs on my<br />
arrival at the track, bright and early<br />
on the Monday morning - one for the<br />
Factory KTM team and the other for<br />
Team Sky VR46 Moto3 team, who<br />
were also there for the two days of<br />
testing, and no, Rossi did not make an<br />
appearance unfortunately, but did chat<br />
to his right hand man Uccio a bit.<br />
56 RIDEFAST MAGAZINE AUGUST 2016
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