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Crutchlow to start ultimate Grand Prix of 2022 from row six

5 November 2022 - Latest news
Crutchlow to start ultimate Grand Prix of 2022 from row six

The final Qualifying of the 2022 MotoGP World Championship season is already in the history books. In sunny weather the decisive day in Valencia, Spain, started fresh in FP3 this morning, which lead to several incidents. Yet from midday, temperatures were rising and providing perfect conditions.

Thereby, Cal Crutchlow experimented in his role as Yamaha test rider throughout the day, testing different solutions to help out with the development of the Yamaha YZR-M1. In Free Practice three, the Brit even managed to improve on his time from Friday by 0.224 seconds. Focusing on a fast lap in Qualifying, he went more than half a second faster again and ended Q1 in P7, missing out on a possible Q2 entry by just 0.355 seconds in the ultra-competitive premier class field. He’ll start the last dance of 2022 from row six.

#35 Cal Crutchlow – P17 –

“I felt okay, we had a different tyre strategy and the rear wings also which I already tested before and know what they do. It was just not the right time to test because the track conditions and the temperature was not great. I was just a bit concern having no weight on the front wheel at that time in the morning when the sun is low. But overall I felt good today, especially in FP4, probably not consistently fast enough, but it felt more okay with the bike and I think we can get some speed for tomorrow and have a good race.”

Results Q1 & Q2 combined:

Source: motogp.com, rnfracing.com