Cal Crutchlow secured a spot on the second row of the grid for Sunday’s German Grand Prix, the ninth round of this year’s #MotoGP World Championship. The LCR Honda CASTROL rider was on the pace throughout on a scorching Saturday at the Sachsenring and ultimately claimed sixth position in qualifying, just as he did at Assen last weekend.
#35 Cal Crutchlow (6th – 1’20.857)
“Yeah, I’m happy enough. I qualified there in Assen, sixth there and sixth here. I think that’s about our pace this weekend, it’s going to be a really long difficult race and obviously the heat today didn’t help anybody’s tyres, but overall we’re happy enough. I’ve no idea (about tyres for the race), I used the really used rear tyre in FP4 and it was horrendous, but that’s what it’s going to be like in the race. Marc (Marquez) has the pace compared to everybody else, we can see that, but we just don’t know how our rear tyre performed in that session because we used it from the morning. We’ll see, I believe that we have the pace to do a good job tomorrow, potentially fight for the podium or potentially fight for tenth. It’s always a good race here and a real battle.”
Results Q1 & Q2 Combined:
Pos | Rider | Team | Fastest lap |
1 | Marc MARQUEZ | Repsol Honda Team | 1’20.195 |
2 | Fabio QUARTARARO | Petronas Yamaha SRT | 1’20.400 |
3 | Maverick VIÑALES | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 1’20.406 |
4 | Alex RINS | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | 1’20.531 |
5 | Jack MILLER | Pramac Racing | 1’20.690 |
6 | Cal CRUTCHLOW | LCR Honda CASTROL | 1’20.857 |
7 | Franco MORBIDELLI | Petronas Yamaha SRT | 1’20.964 |
8 | Pol ESPARGARO | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1’21.023 |
9 | Joan MIR | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | 1’21.061 |
10 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | LCR Honda IDEMITSU | 1’21.104 |
11 | Valentino ROSSI | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 1’21.137 |
12 | Danilo PETRUCCI | Ducati Team | 1’21.486 |
13 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | Ducati Team | 1’21.105 |
14 | Stefan BRADL | Repsol Honda Team | 1’21.227 |
15 | Aleix ESPARGARO | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 1’21.313 |
16 | Andrea IANNONE | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 1’21.433 |
17 | Francesco BAGNAIA | Pramac Racing | 1’21.446 |
18 | Hafizh SYAHRIN | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | 1’21.465 |
19 | Johann ZARCO | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1’21.637 |
20 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | 1’21.683 |
21 | Karel ABRAHAM | Reale Avintia Racing | 1’21.796 |
22 | Tito RABAT | Reale Avintia Racing | 1’22.119 |
Source: motogp.com, lcr.mc