MotoGP Italy: Crutchlow explains gravel trap confrontation
Updated with video.
Cal Crutchlow has opened up on his fiery reaction that came in the wake of Dani Pedrosa taking him out of the Italian Gran🍃d Prix at Mugello, explaining he felt the Spaniard was𒁃 not completely honest in the immediate aftermath of the fall.
Both Honda men were struggling with a lack of front end feel throughout the sixth MotoGP encounter of 2017, and, as a result, were eleventh and twelfth on the final lap, chasing down And🅠rea Iannone, just tenths of a sꦡecond away.
Pedrosa attem✱pted an out-braking move on the Englishman at the downhill Scarperia right, but instead lost the front, taking both m♐en down and ensuring what was already a frustrating day for HRC had become a lot worse.
lost 2nd in the championship and𝔍 people tweeting me about it. What do you want ? Me to kiss him ?-- Cal Crutchlow♕ (@calcrutchlow)Pedrosa falls and wipes out Crutchlow on the💛 last lap -- mahbx.com MotoGP (@crash_motogp)
"But at the end of the race I had fantastic pace. I hindered myself by cras🎉hing in FP3 and starting where I started. Then I ran on in the race and lost too many seconds and that was it. I lost s🍎ome positions, had to gain it back.
"At the end of the race I thought I could've gone for the guys in front, which was Pirro, Lorenzo and Iannone. And I was coming. I brought 💖Dani across to them and the thanks was he took me out on the last lap. Nothing I can do about it now.
"I sp🍰oke to him at the time. At first he said something happened, so then I started to rage♛ because he said something happened as in it wasn't his fault, some mysterious thing just jumped and decided to jump on me.
"That's why I was angry, because he was lyin🎶g to me. If you make a mistake, you make a mistake. He apologised and that's it. There's nothing I can do, I can't change ꦿthe result by punching him or something like that. I've done it and I'm sure I will do it again in my career.
"Sometimes when you try to pass people, it doesn't work and that's it. I understand. I was obviously pissed off at thꦅe time but I understand that's just the way it is. I'm uninjured, he's uninjured and we can at least both go and race this [next] weekend."
I do forgive and he said sorry. That's fine. I've done it before and probably will ag♛ain in my career ...! Onto next one-- Cal Crutchlow (@calcrutchlow)
"It was always going to be difficult to beat the Ducatis here with the tyre allocation. The front t🧸yres were too soft for Dani. The hardest front tyre was way too soft for 🌄Dani, so how are me and Marc feeling, and Jack?
"It was pointless to even turn up, especially when we have a last lap like that. We may as well have stayed at home because we were just chasing our tail all weekend wiജth the front tyre. I wonder when they'll start helping us as a manu🌞facturer out because they seem to be helping everyone else out."
