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Crutchlow 19th after first day in Valencia

4 November 2022 - Latest news
Crutchlow 19th after first day in Valencia

The final two practice sessions of the year took place today at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo today in sunny but windy weather conditions. Thereby, the WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team experienced a challenging Friday with super close lap times of the entire MotoGP World Championship field. Yet they still managed to improve significantly from FP1 to FP2.

Cal Crutchlow had a decent start into round 20 of the season. He missed out on the top by just 0.875 seconds at the end of Free Practice one, but still ended up in P21. In the second session this afternoon, he went nearly one second faster than in FP1 and made up two positions in the combined standings. The Brit concluded day one in P19 overall, although he went down around halfway through FP2.

#35 Cal Crutchlow – P19 –

“Today was a difficult day. We’ve been trying to adjust settings with the bike and had a different program to the guys in the Factory, which we normally do throughout the weekend to help them out. I felt quite good, unfortunately, I had a small crash in turn two. I went out and the front tyre was cold and I didn’t heat it enough on the out lap, so it was completely my own fault. I should know better with my experience and my age. I still managed to go out in the end and tried a fast lap time. Unfortunately, we had a medium front tyre, which didn’t work that well at this track in these conditions. But we are positive for tomorrow. We need to make the bike a lot more calm at the moment as it seems we are having to fight quite a lot here in Valencia. Let’s see how it’s going to work out tomorrow in Qualifying.”

Results FP2:

Source: motogp.com, rnfracing.com