LCR Honda CASTROL rider Cal Crutchlow secured a place in the top 10 on the opening day of free practice for the Austrian Grand Prix. The Briton ended up in eighth place overall in Spielberg, but feels there is plenty of room for improvement ahead of Saturday’s qualifying at the Red Bull Ring.
#35 Cal Crutchlow (8th – 1’24.336)
“Today was not a bad day, but I think we can improve in a lot of areas, I look forward to seeing what we can do tomorrow. I was struggling to stop the bike in turn one and turn four and hopefully we can improve that overnight with some settings changes. I had to cut one of my runs short as I didn’t get the correct feeling with one of the settings, so hopefully that will help me in that area. I’ll work closely with the team and Honda tonight to understand the situation and also to work out the best tyre to use for qualifying and the race.”
Results FP2:
Pos | Rider | Team | Fastest lap |
1 | Marc MARQUEZ | Repsol Honda Team | 1’23.916 |
2 | Maverick VIÑALES | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 1’23.982 |
3 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | LCR Honda IDEMITSU | 1’24.071 |
4 | Fabio QUARTARARO | Petronas Yamaha SRT | 1’24.153 |
5 | Jack MILLER | Pramac Racing | 1’24.308 |
6 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | 1’24.326 |
7 | Danilo PETRUCCI | Ducati Team | 1’24.330 |
8 | Cal CRUTCHLOW | LCR Honda CASTROL | 1’24.336 |
9 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | Ducati Team | 1’24.411 |
10 | Pol ESPARGARO | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1’24.418 |
11 | Valentino ROSSI | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 1’24.532 |
12 | Alex RINS | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | 1’24.540 |
13 | Francesco BAGNAIA | Pramac Racing | 1’24.598 |
14 | Franco MORBIDELLI | Petronas Yamaha SRT | 1’24.630 |
15 | Stefan BRADL | Repsol Honda Team | 1’24.755 |
16 | Aleix ESPARGARO | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 1’24.865 |
17 | Johann ZARCO | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1’24.948 |
18 | Andrea IANNONE | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 1’25.003 |
19 | Karel ABRAHAM | Reale Avintia Racing | 1’25.139 |
20 | Tito RABAT | Reale Avintia Racing | 1’25.233 |
21 | Hafizh SYAHRIN | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | 1’25.269 |
Source: motogp.com, lcr.mc