Roberts would come home in 16 th, Beaubier 20 th. Joe Roberts (Italtrans Kalex) and Cameron Beaubier (American Racing Team Kalex) were both caught up in a first corner pile-up with Beaubier being handed a double long lap penalty as a result. He now leads Fernandez by 19 points in the series. He would slowly make up places for seventh, limiting his championship damage. Gardner was boxed in off the start, the Australian dropping to 10 th. Fernandez cut into Gardner’s championship lead with the Austrian Moto2 race win. It was Ogura’s first podium in the class, while Augusto Fernandez (Elf Marc VDS Racing Team) picked up a third consecutive podium in third.
2021 Austrian MotoGP Results 1įor the fourth time in 2021, Raul Fernandez (Red Bull KTM Ajo) took the race victory in a pivotal championship round as teammate and title leader Remy Gardner suffered his worst round of the season.įernandez fended off race-long pressure from Ai Ogura (Idemitsu Honda Team Asia) as two rookies stood on the top two steps. Zarco’s crash drops him to fourth on 132 with Miller fifth on 105. In the championship, Quartararo remarkably increases his lead to 47 points ahead of Bagnaia and Mir, who are both tied on 134. Red Bull KTM’s Miguel Oliveira and championship contender Johann Zarco (Pramac Ducati) both crashed out, while Enea Bastianini was forced to withdraw after the bodywork on his Esponsorama Ducati became disconnected. Jack Miller-the first rider to gamble and pit for slicks with Suzuki’s Alex Rins-came home 11 th from Tech3 KTM’s Danilo Petrucci, LCR Idemitsu Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami, Rins and the remounting Marc Marquez rounding out the top 15.
Wet-tire rider Mir also came through to take fourth, with Marini holding on for a career-best fifth ahead of Lecuona, Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha) and Rossi, Alex Marquez (LCR Castrol Honda) and Espargaro tumbling from second to tenth on the final lap. If the race had gone one more lap, Bagnaia would surely have taken his first MotoGP race victory, his last lap some 12.9 seconds faster than Binder. Jorge Martin followed suit, the two finishing 9.9 and 11.5 seconds behind Binder. Bagnaia was at the head of this pack after Marquez crashed at turn one on the penultimate lap, and he quickly disposed of Rossi, Marini, Espargaro and Lecuona. By turn three, however, those riders who had come in for wets were charging through. Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro began the final lap in second place with Iker Lecuona (Tech3 KTM) catapulted up to third ahead of Luca Marini (Sky VR46 Ducati) and Valentino Rossi (Petronas Yamaha), those riders all opting to stay on slicks.
Binder comes across the line for one of the most remarkable wins of his career.Īs Binder made history out front, it was carnage behind him. The remaining three laps were drama filled as new leader Binder tiptoed his way around the Spielberg countryside, KTM’s and Red Bull’s top brass all with their hearts in their mouths as the laps ticked down.īinder had to battle not just the rain but the cooling off of his slick tires and then his carbon brakes, ensuring he had almost no stopping power as he coasted across the line for his second career MotoGP race win. The rain that threatened all race finally arrived, Binder opting to gamble and stay out on slicks as Marquez, Bagnaia, Martin, Quartararo and Mir all pulled into the pits to change to wet tires. BTSportHD.SD magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9287eece3e726b16900b3d2a3df3f68f81883144&dn=.BTSportHD.SD&xl=5889158114&tr=udp%3A%2F%:2720/announce&tr=udp%3A%2F%:2710/announce&tr=udp%3A%2F%:2720/announce&tr=udp%3A%2F%:6969/announce&tr=udp%3A%2F%:6969/announce&tr=udp%3A%2F%:6969/announce&tr=udp%3A%2F%:1337/announce&tr=udp%3A%2F%.The saying “fortune favors the brave” has never been more appropriate in MotoGP than it was at the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix as Red Bull KTM’s Brad Binder pulled what will go down as one of the great wins of the modern era.Īfter a typically frantic but mainly dry 25 laps at the Red Bull Ring with a leading six of Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda), Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha), Francesco Bagnaia (Lenovo Ducati), Jorge Martin (Pramac Ducati) and Joan Mir (Ecstar Suzuki) and Binder, it all changed with six laps remaining.