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Difficult Thai Grand Prix for Crutchlow

4 October 2022 - Latest news
Difficult Thai Grand Prix for Crutchlow

After he equalled the best qualifying position for WithU Yamaha RNF in 2022 with P15 yesterday, Cal Crutchlow struggled during the start and landed in 20th position in the first lap. He then made some steady progress and moved up to P17 passing by current World Championship leader, Fabio Quartararo halfway through the race. However, pushing hard to keep his pace, he fell back at the last couple of laps and could not make up faster time eventually crossing the finish line in P19.

#35 Cal Crutchlow – P19 –

“I struggled today, first of all I think it was very dangerous on the first lap, you can’t see anything from the back. The other riders were closing throttle in fifth gear and to me it’s strange when you still have the straight left. Anyway, it was a difficult race for Yamaha today, it seem that we all have very similar problems with the tyre pressure and the tyre heating. It’s a shame because this weekend in the dry, we had a great pace but our problems were exaggerated in the rain. It was the same problem in the dry but we got away with it in the dry. So it was a disappointing day, I think if it was in the dry, we could have had a great race, but honestly speaking the speed of my bike this weekend was not good in the straight compared to Aragon and Motegi where i was the fastest Yamaha, came this weekend it was a surprise to not have a fast bike to be competitive in this rain. This is the situation, we have to now look ahead and go for it in Australia and the last two rounds.”

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Source: motogp.com, rnfracing.com