Monster Yamaha's Cal Crutchlow will take a gamble on tyres if tomorrow's Jerez MotoGP round is run in mixed conditions but hopes that if it is necessary, the race will start wet and then dry out instead of the other way round.

The Coventry man, who led the qualifying session on more than one occasion today before ending on the second row, was praying for rain mid-way through the hour when the skies darkened and it started to spit while he was on pole position. It dried, however, and Crutchlow recovered from a small crash to bounce back.

"I hope it is either dry or wet but if it's half and half, I'll take a bit of a gamble. We are not going to win the championship so it makes no difference to us. If it works, we looks like heroes, if it doesn't then it doesn't really matter," said the 2010 World Supersport Champion, speaking to bikesportnews.com this evening.

"Tomorrow, if anything, I hope it's a race that goes wet to dry because we're so used to the bikes in the dry, if it suddenly pisses down it will be difficult to get into it. I think it's easier the other way round.

"If we hadn't have had the crash, I think we could have been front row, maybe a bit closer to the first two guys. I hit a wet patch, same as other people, but the problem is they stayed on and I didn't.

"I was hoping it was going to rain in the middle of the session, I know that! I think it shows that in those kind of conditions we can challenge especially if there is a few patches like the start of the session. I think in the dry it is possible to have a top five or six but that's not going to be easy."