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Cal Crutchlow was left to ponder what could have been as he saw a debut podium finish with Ducati agonisingly slip through his grasp at the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island.


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I like Cal but he does seem to favour the 'all or nothing' approach to racing.

I can be critical of the bloke but I don't think Sunday was his fault. He had no warning. The bike looked like someone pulled it away from him.

Lots of other riders who were using the asymetric front tyre had similar crashes in fre practice on the same section of track too.

Blade wrote:Lots of other riders who were using the asymetric front tyre had similar crashes in fre practice on the same section of track too.

Exactly why he shouldn't have been pushing it so hard! I know racers race etc but he was trying to close a near 6 second gap to Rossi of all people in two laps on a tyre that had been spitting people off regularly. Pretty sure Marquez was on same tyre and had a similar crash. I just felt in that situation he made a horrible choice. That second place would have been a great result for him and Ducati.

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DaytonAndy wrote:

Blade wrote:Lots of other riders who were using the asymetric front tyre had similar crashes in fre practice on the same section of track too.

Exactly why he shouldn't have been pushing it so hard! I know racers race etc but he was trying to close a near 6 second gap to Rossi of all people in two laps on a tyre that had been spitting people off regularly. Pretty sure Marquez was on same tyre and had a similar crash. I just felt in that situation he made a horrible choice. That second place would have been a great result for him and Ducati.

Well put Andy, totally agree mate

He says in the article that he did slow down and that caused the crash. Lost tyre temperature

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"I had to keep pushing and I felt fine, I didn't do anything differently, but I had to keep pushing because if I didn't I would have crashed anyway," said Crutchlow.

Shame he didn't just get his head down and graft earlier in the season. He would have still been on a factory bike then.

He is on a factory RCV in a satellite team next year so he might have come out on top only time will tell I guess.

Have Ducati had to pay him off ????

The Ducati is beating it right now though, Blade and its likely it will be better still next year.

I was also told at the weekend that Crutchlow was not first choice Brit for the LCR bike and that he is probably riding for nothing next year.

Good point Duke your right mate and I really hope it does it improve as you know I'm a huge Ducati fan,

Who was the other Brit ??? Bradley ? or Tommy Bridewell he seemed popular with the Motogp crowd in Misano

DaytonAndy wrote:http://m.crash.net/motogp/news/209971/1 ... l-lap.html
"I had to keep pushing and I felt fine, I didn't do anything differently, but I had to keep pushing because if I didn't I would have crashed anyway," said Crutchlow.

The first time I slowed throughout the whole race was on the last lap and the front tyre obviously cooled down.”

He can't make his mind up

Covering all bets

Blade wrote:Good point Duke your right mate and I really hope it does it improve as you know I'm a huge Ducati fan,

Who was the other Brit ??? Bradley ? or Tommy Bridewell he seemed popular with the Motogp crowd in Misano

The only current British World Champion

duke63 wrote:

Blade wrote:Good point Duke your right mate and I really hope it does it improve as you know I'm a huge Ducati fan,

Who was the other Brit ??? Bradley ? or Tommy Bridewell he seemed popular with the Motogp crowd in Misano

The only current British World Champion

Now that is very intersting, great info cheers