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Crutchlow: “worst feeling around Phillip Island ever”

14 October 2022 - Latest news
Crutchlow: “worst feeling around Phillip Island ever”

The typical several seasons in one day weather welcomed teams and riders this weekend as the MotoGP World Championship returns to Australia. While the rain never stopped throughout Thursday, Friday was sunny but windy and fresh for the first two premier class sessions of the weekend.

Cal Crutchlow, who traditionally enjoys riding the unique Phillip Island circuit found himself in the middle of the pack while getting re-used to the undulating track. He concluded the first Free Practice in P17, missing out on the top by 1.5 seconds. In FP2, he improved by 1.662 seconds to miss only 0.731 seconds to the fastest rider, yet he ended up in P18 of the super-competitive MotoGP field.

#35 Cal Crutchlow – P18 –

“I was disappointed with the result today. I have probably my worst feeling ever around Phillip Island with the motorcycle. The instability of the bike is not in our favor at the moment. We are really struggling to find a good setting with the bike. We tried a few different things, we tried the hard rear tyre for Yamaha, which we used some laps doing. We got some vital information for them. After that, we tried to work on the setting of the bike to improve the stability, but the bike doesn’t feel like my own around here at the moment. We will think about the setting tonight for tomorrow’s Free Practice. It was good to get two dry sessions. Obviously the first one had some patches. We know where we have to work on. I have good ambitions for the race here. The team is working hard and I look forward to try to improve tomorrow.”

Results FP2

Source: motogp.com, rnfracing.com