Cal Crutchlow was the privileged spectator of the incident between Valentino Rossi and Johann Zarco at the Circuit of the Americas, since he was just behind the two men at that point in the race. The LCR pilot's opinion of his French colleague exudes respect and takes a certain Valentino Rossi on the wrong foot.
Confiding in our colleagues and nevertheless friends of crash.net, the Briton detailed his vision of things with precision: “He rode well. He finished fifth. It's not easy to finish fifth in a MotoGP race. You have to give him credit for that. I think the package (the bike) helped him a lot. It's really easy to ride in most races. He started well, and the thing about Johann is that he takes no prisoners in the first round.
In Qatar he immediately led, in Argentina he moved up 6-7 places… He is strong in the first round, but he could easily bite himself in the ass and he could end up without any points. Only thing is, if he bites his ass, who cares? It's his first year, he doesn't really care about it. But for someone like me, Valentino, Marc or someone else, if he takes us out of the race, we'll be more upset than if he doesn't finish.
No, I don't think it's dangerous. I just think he's willing to take a lot more risks, which is pretty normal. I don't blame him in any way. He made a muscular overtake on me on the first lap, a really muscular overtake. But I am willing to accept it. I give as much as I get, and that's it.
His overtake on Valentino was muscular. I've already passed there, I passed Bautista there, in 2013, but I did it about 10 meters earlier, so Bautista didn't have to get up. But Valentino was already around the corner and I thought " Oh! I gain two places here! » Then they both passed.
He was tired towards the end of the race. He was slow when changing direction and braked 30 meters earlier than at the start, which was just fatigue. But he drove really well. Give him credit! »
