I like BB because he is calculated while ruthless in execution. He certainly wasnt that today. Was like a raging bull. Think he lost his composure. Hope he will return to his old self and forget about today. Wasnt pretty to watch.
In his post race interview he basically admits as much. Combined with not taking the extra 16kg of fuel into account.
He also noted that he took T11 faster than even in quali.... so a bit of red mist.
In the man's own words:
Brad Binder: “I felt really, really good today. I made a decent start but then lost the front into Turn 11 and had a big head shake of the bike. I was thinking ‘that was close’ but then tucked the front going into Turn 13. I was a little bit wild. I tried to restart but then crashed again. So, not a great race but I’m happy because I had such a good feeling with the bike, and we’ve worked hard to get to that. Unfortunately we go home with nothing today but we’ll try again in Barcelona. We’ll need to learn quickly there and if I take one thing from this weekend then it’s that a good qualification makes life so much easier! We’ll try for that again next weekend.”