Cal Crutchlow produced a heroic effort to finish in the points at the Andalusian Grand Prix on Sunday. After undergoing wrist surgery on Tuesday, the LCR Castrol Honda rider defied intense pain to complete all 25 laps at the Jerez Circuit and claim 13th position in hot and challenging conditions in southern Spain.
Cal Crutchlow produced a heroic effort to finish in the points at the Andalusian Grand Prix on Sunday. After undergoing wrist surgery on Tuesday, the LCR Castrol Honda rider defied intense pain to complete all 25 laps at the Jerez Circuit and claim 13th position in hot and challenging conditions in southern Spain.
#35 Cal Crutchlow; 13th- 41.28,779
“Today obviously was a very tough day, but we managed to complete the race with a little pit-stop in the middle! Once I started the race I got caught up in the first corner and lost some positions with the crash of another couple of riders, but I did my best. Unfortunately, my right arm was taking the brunt of the force from my left wrist injury and I was struggling to hold on to the bike and it became dangerous, so I decided to pull into the pit as I thought I was out of the point-scoring positions, in about 20th position. But then when I came in they said I was in the point-scoring positions as many people had pulled out, so I went back out and finished the race in 13th and made sure I wasn’t close to any other riders and just got some points. It was a difficult race, but one we’re glad to finish and get out of here and go to Brno.”
Race results:
Pos. | Rider | Team | Time / Gap |
1 | Fabio QUARTARARO | Petronas Yamaha SRT | 41’22.666 |
2 | Maverick VIÑALES | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 4.495 |
3 | Valentino ROSSI | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 5.546 |
4 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | LCR Honda IDEMITSU | 6.113 |
5 | Joan MIR | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | 7.693 |
6 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | Ducati Team | 12.554 |
7 | Pol ESPARGARO | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 17.488 |
8 | Alex MARQUEZ | Repsol Honda Team | 19.357 |
9 | Johann ZARCO | Hublot Reale Avintia | 23.523 |
10 | Alex RINS | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | 27.091 |
11 | Tito RABAT | Hublot Reale Avintia | 33.628 |
12 | Bradley SMITH | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 36.306 |
13 | Cal CRUTCHLOW | LCR Honda CASTROL | 1 Lap |
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Francesco BAGNAIA | Pramac Racing | 6 Laps | |
Franco MORBIDELLI | Petronas Yamaha SRT | 9 Laps | |
Brad BINDER | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 13 Laps | |
Danilo PETRUCCI | Ducati Team | 14 Laps | |
Jack MILLER | Pramac Racing | 15 Laps | |
Aleix ESPARGARO | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 17 Laps | |
Iker LECUONA | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | 20 Laps | |
Miguel OLIVEIRA | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | 0 Lap |
Source: motogp.com, lcr.mc