Cal Crutchlow will start Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix from eighth position on the grid after his best lap time was taken away from him, with Race Direction having deemed he exceeded the limits of the Mugello Circuit during qualifying. The LCR Honda Castrol man made it comfortably through to the final qualifying session with his lap time in the morning free practice, and then looked on course for a second row start in the 23-lap race. However, he soon realised from his dashboard that his lap hadn’t counted, so dug deep to continue on the same set of tyres and claim eighth place on the grid, with hopes of picking up positions in the race.

Cal Crutchlow – 8th (1’46″813)

“Today has been a disappointing day because I made a mistake and lost my best lap time. It would have been on the second row of the grid and the fastest Honda. Unfortunately, I touched the green paint on the exit of turn five and absolutely gained no advantage at all, but this is the rule. I am very sorry to the LCR Honda Castrol Team for that. Then I made another lap with the same tyres that was only good enough for eighth place on the grid. It seems a difficult weekend for us at the moment, but we will do our best, and try our hardest and look forward to a good, clean race tomorrow.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results Q1 & Q2 combined:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: lcr.mc, motogp.com