Britain's Cal Crutchlow has again been struck by the mystery chatter that befell him in Motegi during today's MotoGP qualifying session at Sepang and he qualified off the front row for the first time in five races.
The Monster Yamaha man says his technicians can see the problem on the data traces but have no idea what is causing it, so are struggling to come up with a solution in time for tomorrow's race where Crutchlow will start from fifth place.
“After qualifying on the front row at the last four races I should be pretty disappointed with fifth position and I am. To be honest I am not happy with the performance of the bike and I had the same issue that struck in qualifying last weekend in Japan," said Crutchlow.
"I had a big vibration and all the changes we made to improve the situation didn't work. It felt like I had zero grip and we can see the problems on the data but we still haven't been able to identify what is causing the vibration. We have a lot of work to do tonight and I will be sitting down with my crew and analysing a lot of data to come up with a plan for the race.
"If the situation remains the same for the race it will be really difficult and demanding. As always I will try my best and the main goal will be to claw back some of the points I lost to Alvaro and Valentino with the bad luck in Japan.”
