LCR Honda Team’s Cal Crutchlow qualified in tenth place for Sunday’s Grand Prix of the Czech Republic, having made a remarkably quick recovery from a huge crash during the fourth free practice session. The British rider lost the front of his Honda RC213V on entry into the uphill turn 11, but his bike cartwheeled through the gravel before launching itself off the air-bag protection and up over the catch fence. Thankfully nobody, including Cal, was hurt in the incident, and on first impressions the engine was salvageable. Crutchlow quickly returned to the LCR Honda pit garage to prepare his second bike for qualifying, and eventually set his best lap of the weekend during the 15-minute shootout to qualify at the head of the fourth row and hopeful of picking up positions in race trim. Rain is forecast for Sunday morning, but predictions are that by the time of the MotoGP race at 2pm local time it may well have dissipated.

Cal Crutchlow:
“Brno is one of the safest tracks we go to, the thing is the track goes uphill in that corner and the gravel trap goes downhill and there’s a bit of a jump so the bike starts bouncing. It’s not ideal. I’m sorry to the marshals and the people on the service road as I’m sure they got a bit of a fright, but I’m glad that nobody is hurt. It was a silly mistake, we were running the hard front tyre and I had slowed down on the lap before and then started to push again. Maybe this was the reason why, but at the end of the day our bike isn’t entering the corner right, and the rear is pushing the front. It was a tough qualifying session, tenth isn’t exactly what we wanted, I feel we’re a bit faster than that. I had a bit of a headache after the crash and felt I didn’t need to crash again in qualifying. We’re not too far away from Dani Pedrosa, but a long way from Marc Marquez. We are trying our best, and actually over a longer run we are a bit more competitive than over one lap. I’d prefer a dry race tomorrow; we need to give good feedback to Honda to help develop the bike more. Along with the LCR Team we’re all working together closely and hopefully tomorrow we can have a good race whatever the weather.”

Results Q1 + Q2 combined:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source : motogp.com, lcr.mc