Cal Crutꦡch𓄧low says the knife injury he suffered in his kitchen has given him even more of a reason to leave the cooking to his wife Lucy from now on.

The British rider suffered a severed tendon to the inde🧸x finger on his left hand as he helped to prepare a meal on Sunday. Crutchlow underwent a procedure and intends to compete this weekend at Misano, 🅷although he joked that his days in the kitchen are over.

“Cutting Parmesan is a dangerous thing. I wish I could give you a story, like I was fighting a bear or something good, but honestly I don’t cook – Lucy does the cooking because I’m a terrible cook,ඣ so I don’t bother,” he said.

“But I was cutting the cheese to go with my dinner that Lucy prepared and the knife 🐽came out of the cheese and went straight in 𝔉my finger. I didn’t think anything too much of it: there was some blood and I felt a bit light-headed at first. I went to bed no problem and the next day I got up and there was still quite a lot of blood coming out.

“I got my bicycle ready to go out a🍸nd I thought I best go to the doctor, and he said I needed to go to the hospital. Theไ Italian doctors are savage – I had no painkillers or anything and they just started to pull at the finger, which I didn’t like,” added the LCR Honda rider.

“Then they noticed that the tendon was severed and in two, so they then made an operation immediately to re-attach the tendon back together. It was a bad day on Monday but I managed to ride the bike on Tuesday in Barcelona.🥀 It’s difficult, surꦚe, but I think it’s possible – we’ll see tomorrow and on the race day.”

Crutchlow has been left disa🉐ppointed by the setback and after a strong performance in his home race at Silverstone, he was optimisti💎c of another solid race in Italy.

“Obviously it is disappointing after a good weekend in Silverstone by the LCR team and Honda. I felt good and I was hoping to come here after a good test and be strong; maybe it will cause me no problems, maybe I won’t be able to feel good, but we’ll see how we get on🍨.

“It’s an even better excuse not to 𝓀do any of the cooking again! No, I’m a terrible cook but I’m good at may other things – I do the hoovering. A lot of the other riders here have assistants to do this for them, but I like to be a bit more hands-on!”

During the pre-race press conference on Thursday, Crutchlow was asked for his opinion on MotoGP riders training in between race on motocross and enduro machines, in light of the 👍injury suffered by Valentino Ros♔si, who misses his home race after breaking his leg.

Crutchlow does not ride other motorcycles other than his MotoGP bike throughout the season, but he said he 🧸‘completely understood’ why his counterparts trained in this way.

“I don’t ride the bike outside of the race weekend but it’s my choice. I think for a lot of riders it helps them go faster but for me, I don’t think it helps me go faster. This is completely my choice and I completely understand why 🐓they rider.

“Socඣcer players p🍸lay soccer for training, or tennis players play tennis. I think it’s good that motorcycle riders ride a motorcycle but for me it doesn’t work and I don’t want to ride, but not for the risk reason. As Marc [Marquez] said, if I didn’t want I risk I wouldn’t even go in the kitchen!”