Greatest fightbacks: Brad Binder talks Jerez

Brad Binder finished the 2016 season as Moto3 world champion but his greatest achievement may have come at Jerez earlier in the season.

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Winner Red Bull KTM Ajo's South African rider Brad Binder celebrates his victory on the podium of the Moto 3 race during the Spanish Moto Grand Prix at the Jerez racetrack in Jerez de la Frontera on April 24, 2016

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Binder, 21, started the Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix last on the grid before slaloming his way to the win – the first of his career.

Greatest fightbacks: Brad Binder talks Jerez

“I don’t think I’ve ever qualified last in my life, so it was a strange feeling lining up behind everybody," Binder said. "The first thing I said to my crew chief was ‘those lights are really far’!

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“It was so weird because obviously I didn’t expect to win at all – I’d never won a GP before – and it felt like something was missing, that I still had an extra lap to do that I hadn’t done or something had happened, you know.

“But when I came back and I stopped and parked and saw my team standing behind the number one board I knew that we’d got it right, and it was a really incredible feeling.”

Jerez may have been his debut victory, but the South African star went on to win another six Grand Prix to claim a maiden world championship.

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