Cal Crutchlow suffered a heavy fall at Turn 4 on the Catalunya MotoGP test, on his second flying lap. The British rider losing the front on wet patch in the braking zone. No injury, and Crutchlow was able to return after midday.
Cal Crutchlow set his best lap 1.42.378 on seventh quickest of the test. He admit that the crash was his fault.
Crutchlow said, “Today certainly could have got off to a better start and the crash made it quite tough. We had a lot of work to do but I crashed on only my second lap. It was my fault because we knew there was likely to be some water under the bridge at Turn 4 after the overnight rain."
He continue, "The problem is you can't see the wet patch and as soon as I touched the brakes I crashed. It was a very fast crash and I've lost some skin on my r ight leg and back. Luckily though I am fine and I was able to go back out and build up my confidence again."
"Losing one bike made it difficult because it meant we had to put all the new parts we had on one bike, so I wasn't sure exactly where the improvements were. If we had two bikes it would have made it easier to understand specifically what felt better. But I was able to work a lot on used tyres and my pace at the end of the day was pleasing. I wasn't going to push too hard and risk another crash so I'm sure I could be higher than seventh. Now I'm looking forward to Aragon where hopefully I can get a better understanding for the new parts Yamaha delivered here.” said Crutchlow again.
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