Espargaro crashed out of the race after losing the fro🍎nt-end of his Aprilia at turn 16 on lap two.

The fall came when trying to make a pass on Binder, which resu🦋lted in Espargaro taking down tღhe KTM rider.

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Apologetic post-race, Espargaro said: “I felt🌊 very strong today and I was very fast. ꦍI tried not to lose the race because I saw that Jorge and Maverick were pulling strongly at the front. 

“I felt like I could figh⛎t for the victory so I tried to overtake [Brad] and made a mistake. There was no space so I had to brake on the🍎 dirty part and this is the problem. 

“I’m very sorry to Brad and everyone at KTM. I’m very, very sorry. I tried to avoi🔯d it but I lost the front in a dirty part of the track.”

Espargaro was unlucky that his crash camꦓe when moving onto the dirty part of the track, however, the Spaniard didn’t want to use that as anꦕ excuse.

“It’s not that I want to say an excuse because I’m very sorry to Brad,” said Espargaro. “I ruined h🐽is race. It’s not his fault or it’s dirty or whatever. 

“It’s my fault, but you ha🥀ve to overtake and there is one line and the risk is there. I was surprised I crashed because I was braking well.”

While Espargaro was forcedܫ to retire, Binder managed to keep going but finished last - 43 seconds down on race winner Jorge Martin.  

“In the race I went with the hard front tyre because I thought it would be better📖 for the 🌠race distance,” said Binder. 

“In the first two laps it was clear that it needed a bit more time to come up, especially on the l🌟eft side.&n🔯bsp;

“Unfortunately, this track is quite difficult to overtake at and I was trying to get past Fabio. Then Aleix tried to go past me and locked the f🐠ront and I got collected. 

“Was not really ideal and it was not a good day for us. I picked up the bike and the pace was gooꦺd even without the wings. I wasn’t the fastest but wasn’t the slowest. Tomorrow is our chance.”

Asked if he felt Espargaro should have been pe෴nalised, Binder called it a racing incident andꦕ felt as though it was ‘just unfortunate’. 

Binder added: “To be honest the line at this track is so narrow and it's so hard to overtake. It’s racing at the end of the day. I was just unfortunate to be collecte♎d.”