If you didn?t have time to watch yesterday?s MotoGP race, find time. It was one of the most exciting, unpredictable races I think I?ve ever seen. For some years now MotoGP have been running flag-to-flag rules, meaning if it rains during the race, you?ve got to pit, swap bikes and head back out on a bike with different tyres. Either that, or you stay out and struggle on the tyres you started the race on. As always, strategy, judgement, luck and skill played a massive part in Sunday?s flag-to-flag MotoGP in Austria. Some played it absolutely perfectly, others didn?t. This is what we?d score the performances of the top ten.. out of ten.

1st Brad Binder – 20/10

There?s been a lot of talk about how brave Brad Binder was during the MotoGP race in Austria, deciding to stay out on slicks when the heavens opened. And that is absolutely the case, it was a proper ballsy move. But it wasn?t just ballsy, it was calculated. He?d have been trying his best to work out how much time he?d loose in the pits compared to how much faster he?d be able to go on wets. Would he be able to make up for the time lost in the pits" His decision to stay out on dry tyres, when the rest of the top five decided to swap, is what won him the race? partly.
Because he still had to ride the thing. And riding a nigh-on 300bhp motorbike, with all its dry settings dialled in, on slick tyres in the wet would be close to impossible for most people, but he did it. That?s why I?ve scored ...