The dispute has been going on since a French Grand Prix where, during qualifying, he fell heavily from his Honda. Unable to get up on his own because of an injured hip and following the shock he suffered, he nevertheless noticed that the session was continuing while he was lying on the side of the track. The red flag was never raised and Cal Crutchlow has since been very attentive to the actions of the race direction. In Austria, certain facts put him beside himself…
First there was the condition of the Red Bull Ring track in rainy weather. On his social network, the Englishman called out Loris Capirossi, the security man for Dorna, telling her that the sessions in these conditions should have simply been canceled.
Then there was the accident Marini in Moto2, with his bike remaining in the middle of the track, and the fall of Joan Mir secondly, due to the fluids escaping from the bruised Kalex. For once, the red flag was raised, but for the LCR driver, it took far too long: “ the race director deserved to be fired! The red flag came four minutes too late, it's a shame » assures the teammate Nakagami on a tweet relayed by Motorsport-Magazine.com.
The rest is in the same vein: “ already in the rain the conditions were terrible on the worst track of the season in terms of safety. And there, we see a damaged motorcycle on the track, riders on the ground and four marshals trying to recover a machine with a flat front tire. Meanwhile, the race director does nothing ».
He insists : " they give you penalties for nothing at all which are not necessary because we can go and apologize and explain to each other drivers when we embarrass ourselves on the track. And it's forgotten. Instead, you are moved back three places on the starting grid. They better take care of security! »
With that, he ends: “ many pilots think like me, but I am the only one speaking because the others are probably afraid. But it's the truth, every driver I know agrees with me ". In Austria, at least two got wet going in his direction: Álvaro Bautista et Aleix Espargaró...
