Britain’s Cal Crutchlow believes he had the pace to finish fourth in MotoGP qualifying at the Sachsenring today and lashed out at Stefan Bradl for dithering on the racing line which the LCR Honda man says contributed to him not making qualifying two automatically.
Crutchlow was hit by a plethora of issues today that conspired against him getting a good grid position and that included not having enough tyres for both qualifying sessions and a broken rear brake.
“We should have been in Q1 directly really. In FP3 it looked like Bradl was just riding in the middle of the track, he made a mistake and came back on track in front of me and ruined my lap. Then we had a rear brake problem and I had to scrap the rest of my laps,” said Crutchlow.
“I’m disappointed like you would not believe. I took a gamble along with the team that we would use an older front tyre during the qualifier, because we didn’t have enough new ones left in our allocation. We took the gamble because we needed it for Q2, simple as that. As we then saw, the laps there weren’t great and I would have been sixth with my Q1 time.”
“I would say that I’m the fourth fastest guy out there, so to be 13th is just a joke. I’m not happy but there’s nothing I can do now other than get out there in the race tomorrow and go for it.”
