It was a stop-start day of qualifying for the MotoGP riders at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit in Argentina, with a couple of red flag incidents breaking up the normal flow of the day. Despite suffering his own crash during the final qualifying session, Cal Crutchlow still managed to slide his LCR Honda onto the third row of the grid in ninth place, and was positive about his chances in Sunday’s 25-lap shootout. The British rider became one of eight different riders to fall foul of the tricky turn one, but after rushing back to the pits he powered on to improve his best lap time on his second bike, eventually stopping the clock in a time of 1’40.528. Crutchlow has high hopes of a decent result in Argentina, scene of his third-place in 2015.

Cal Crutchlow :

“Today was quite a good day, but I’m a bit disappointed with my qualifying position. I felt that we actually had a really strong pace. I made a small mistake into turn one – I braked a little too late and it wasn’t possible to make the corner and unfortunately I crashed. That wasted some important time. I went out after with the second bike which didn’t quite have the same feeling. It’s a little bit of a different bike and it just wasn’t quite the same as the other one. Overall though, I’m quite confident for tomorrow because we have a good pace and I feel good on the bike. I think a good result is possible, but we have to get away with the leaders.”

Results Q1 + Q2 combined:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: motogp.com, lcr.mc