He is a brave Cal Crutchlow who will start tenth of his Grand Prix of Catalonia this Sunday. Anyone who drives a Honda within the LCR team, with an HRC contract, without ever having been asked to succeed Dani Pedrosa, is in fact operating with a broken sacrum. It is in this state that he fell twice this Saturday, the last of which at the worst moment of qualifying, which condemned him to the fourth row. But the Englishman's fate draws attention to that of his colleagues in Honda, who have been falling a lot lately...
Tom Luthi don't count it anymore, Franco Morbidelli is three since Friday, Nakagami got started and Pedrosa is more than careful. Once again, the tree Marc Márquez hides the Honda forest. However, the six-time winner also falls but he also saves a lot and this show blinds us to the real situation of the RC213V.
A worrying situation, listening to the Briton: “ The worst thing that happens to us is that we have to deal with Marc Márquez who makes crazy rescues but makes the other Honda drivers look like idiots. If you add up his falls with his rescues, that's a lot. ».
He specifies : " he rides with his knee glued to the track, which allows him to get out of such situations. We ride more in the center of the bike and it's a style that we never go out of style with. The real problem is that the Honda won't run. We don't have any rear grip. On the other hand, we have crazy braking. In fact, we brake very hard, which causes the front tire to overheat and sometimes, at the apex of the turn, we lose the front due to That ".
He finishes : " Honda is aware, we have explained this to them several times. We are being listened to. They support us. They are not stupid and they are probably the smartest in the paddock. »...
Catalan Grand Prix Barcelona MotoGP J.2: Chronos
| 1 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati | 1'38.680 | ||
| 2 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Honda | 1'38.746 | 0.066 | 0.066 |
| 3 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati | 1'38.923 | 0.243 | 0.177 |
| 4 | 25 | Maverick VIÑALES | Yamaha | 1'39.145 | 0.465 | 0.222 |
| 5 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Suzuki | 1'39.148 | 0.468 | 0.003 |
| 6 | 9 | Danilo PETRUCCI | Ducati | 1'39.178 | 0.498 | 0.030 |
| 7 | 46 | Valentino ROSSI | Yamaha | 1'39.266 | 0.586 | 0.088 |
| 8 | 5 | johann zarco | Yamaha | 1'39.331 | 0.651 | 0.065 |
| 9 | 53 | Tito RABAT | Ducati | 1'39.504 | 0.824 | 0.173 |
| 10 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda | 1'39.556 | 0.876 | 0.052 |
| 11 | 26 | Dani PEDROSA | Honda | 1'39.695 | 1.015 | 0.139 |
| 12 | 30 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | Honda | 1'39.888 | 1.208 | 0.193 |
| Q1 Results: | ||||||
| Q2 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Honda | 1'39.217 | ||
| Q2 | 30 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | Honda | 1'39.663 | 0.446 | 0.446 |
| 13 | 43 | Jack Miller | Ducati | 1'39.732 | 0.515 | 0.069 |
| 14 | 55 | Hafiz Syahrin | Yamaha | 1'39.879 | 0.662 | 0.147 |
| 15 | 42 | Alex Rins | Suzuki | 1'39.918 | 0.701 | 0.039 |
| 16 | 41 | Aleix Espargaro | Aprilia | 1'40.010 | 0.793 | 0.092 |
| 17 | 38 | Bradley SMITH | KTM | 1'40.019 | 0.802 | 0.009 |
| 18 | 21 | Frank MORBIDELLI | Honda | 1'40.058 | 0.841 | 0.039 |
| 19 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | KTM | 1'40.178 | 0.961 | 0.120 |
| 20 | 45 | Scott REDDING | Aprilia | 1'40.300 | 1.083 | 0.122 |
| 21 | 17 | Karel ABRAHAM | Ducati | 1'40.449 | 1.232 | 0.149 |
| 22 | 19 | Alvaro BAUTISTA | Ducati | 1'40.524 | 1.307 | 0.075 |
| 23 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 1'40.572 | 1.355 | 0.048 |
| 24 | 12 | Thomas LUTHI | Honda | 1'40.590 | 1.373 | 0.018 |
| 25 | 50 | Sylvain GUINTOLI | Suzuki | 1'40.834 | 1.617 | 0.244 |
| 26 | 10 | Xavier SIMEON | Ducati | 1'41.369 | 2.152 | 0.535 |
