Thailand MotoGP: Cal Crutchlow: Fabio Quartararo will push for wins, ‘uncrackable’
Although Quartararo only managed eighth place last Sunday at Motegi, non-scores for nearest championship rivals 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro means the young Frenchman has strengthened his positioned at the top of the table wไith four rounds to go.
“I think Fabio will push for the wins,” said🀅 Crutchlow, speaking on the eve of this weekend’s Buriram round in Thailand.
“He is so strong mentally with his mind-set, the confidence he has on th🐠e bike and 🥃his feeling. And he’s sort of uncrackable. If something happens, he forgets about it.
“I understand the situation he had in Motegi. The b🥃ikes he’s racing against, it’s so difficult to pass them.
“I found that myself in the race - it took me three lapꦿs to paওss each guy, because you need to get such a run on them. Or wait for them to have not-the-best exit on a corner or something.
“The problem is every person you pass is faster than the one♑ before and he was up again💃st race winners and podium finishers this year.
“So Motegi wasn’t easy but ෴I think if he would have started on the front row or had a better start - hi🍸s pace was good for the podium.
“And now we are coming to some circuits that w🐲ill be more friendly to him and to our bike.”
Crutchlow: Strange track, strange weather
After a 14th at Aragon, then 15th at Motegi, Burira💫m will be the next event of Crutchlow’s unexpected six-race MotoGP ‘comeback’ in pღlace of the retired Andrea Dovizioso at RNF.
Th꧂e Englishman can also count on some previous M✤otoGP knowledge of the circuit, having taken part in both the previous 2018 and 2019 Thai events.
“It’s a strange track. I liked it the first time I came here when I did the test,” Crutchlow said of the Burir🅺am circuit. “Then the first race in 2018 w🧸as good, I finished seventh but only six-seconds off the winner. It was quite a close race.
“The second year I blew a brake disc and brake pad, so rode the whole ಌrace with metal-on-metal and the bike was pulling to one side! So that wasn’t great but I understood why.”
Those races were both in the dry, ꦕbut wet weather is currently forecast throughout this ꦬweekend.
“It will be a strange situation with the weather. I was hoping for another dry weekend but was also OK in the rain [in qualifying in Japan] except I kept getting my laps cancelled - I never understood the rules! I think my lap time could have been good enough for 14th on🐻 the grid," said Crutchlow.
“This weekend, if we can get one dry session it makes ꦺit easier for engineers to have the data in case of a dry race. Whereas if you have everything wet and then a dry race, it’s going to be an upsid🎐e-down field. But we’ll see.
“The bikes are easier to ride physically in the wet of course, although using the devices in the rain a🎃nd then having to essentially top out the rear spring [to unlock it again], shows how hard we are braking in the rain.
“I used to ride a bike with just a throttle, brake,♋ clutch and the map buttons. Now there are levers on handlebars [for the ride-height devices] and buttons everywhere!
“For someone old like me it is quite hard to understand, hence why I started the last race with no front device or rear device! Then I pressed the launch control button 0.6s💙 before I let the clutch out! I was still holding the thing [down] while I was going away!”
After a shortened Motegi schedꦚule, MotoGP will return to two free practice sessions at Buriram on Friday, ꧅weather permitting.
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