The South African rider crossed the line in third place in both the sprint and grand prix races, but was demoted by officials on both occasions.
After multiple infractions in the Saturday race, he received a three-second time penalty in lieu of a long-lap penalty he couldn’t take due to the late notice. This dropped him from third to fifth, with Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo inheriting a podium.
While in Sunday’s grand prix, touching the green paint at Turn 8 – the same corner that had got him into trouble in the sprint – on the last lap earned him an automatic one-place drop, as per the rules, gifting third place to Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro.
“I am extremely sorry to my team,” said Binder. “Because I took away two podiums from them.
“They’ve done a great job and put in huge effort. I’m sorry to mess it up like that for them. But it is what it is, and I’ll try to make up for it at Silverstone.
“The thing is, the rules are the rules. I feel like f****** brain-dead to do it again.”
Binder said he was unaware of straying onto the green paint on both occasions.
“Again on the last lap, I didn’t even know I had touched it. We got to Turn 1 and Aleix was pointing at the green. Then I was just like, ‘okay, whatever.’
“Then I saw it on the TV and thought, ‘how did I do that again?’
“I went over by a couple of millimetres again, but it is what it is. End of story!”
Source: Autosport