“Yeah considering we were faster than last year, that’s a positive of course,” said Crutchlow, who went two tenths quicker than he did in Q2 last year, despite not getting a clean lap under his belt in qualifying. “I made a really unclean lap in qualifying, I didn’t get a clean lap at all for the qualifying. I made a mistake down into Turn 4, my first fast lap, then I didn’t realise Marc was there. Then on my other fast lap I made a couple of mistakes, we probably could have been faster, but I tried my best and fifth it was. I’m not sure I could have been on the front row anyway, I think I probably would have been fourth not fifth, so we have to be happy with our job today.”

And the tyres? “We can race all three options” says the number 35: “It seems we can run any rear tyre because Marc ran the soft the whole session, he was fast with that, I ran the medium and was not so bad, and then I ran the hard at the end and was not so bad again. I think we can race all three options of the tyre, which makes it a disaster to be honest for the tyre selection and for the riders deciding what they want to do, and how they’ll play their tricks. But I have some idea that we’ll be racing the hard-rear tomorrow.”

Results Q1 & Q2 combined

Source: motogp.com