Red Bull KTM's Brad Binder has explained his crash on the sighting lap for Sunday's Misano MotoGP, branding it 'super-stupid'.

The South African, whose younger brother Darryn will join him in the premier class next season, went down at turn ten and had to start from the back of the grid.

“Honestly, I don’t really have anything to say other than sorry to the team. I went straight into the race feeling quite confident, I decided to go with the H front and going to grid I was trying to put some good heat into it to see how it felt and I made a huge mistake," said Binder.;

“I didn’t get my brakes hot and with the carbon brakes it’s normal when you pull them there’s a moment that it heats up and when it heats up, they really brake hard.

“Unfortunately, this moment happened in the right-hand corner and soon as I grabbed the brake it made the temperature come to the front and locked the front wheel and I crashed.

“So, crashing on the sighting lap is a first time for me ans I hope the last. It definitely was not good at all, I need to say sorry to my team again for that super-stupid mistake.

“Fortunately, I was able to start the race in last position, which didn’t change much, I only went three places back I think.”