Britain’s Cal Crutchlow feels he should have copied works Honda MotoGP men Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa and made a last-second swap to the hard front Bridgestone for today’s race at the Sachsenring.
Crutchlow, however, chose to remain on the medium and was left to rue what could have been as he could only muster a seventh-place finish behind former team-mate Bradley Smith.
“Today’s race result is not the best, but I am happy to finish and get some points before the summer break. We had some problems in the race, I choose the wrong front tyre as we should have gone with the same one as Dani and Marc,” said Crutchlow.
“I think it would have gained us quite a few seconds over the race in certain places. I also had problems with the rear tyre which gave off vibrations throughout the race so obviously to finish was not a bad job, especially as I still has some pain in my elbow and arm from yesterday’s crash.
“We need to go into the summer break and improve for Indianapolis and from then on. I think the first half of the season has been only average and I believe we can do much better.”
