Austria: Crutchlow falls as Espargaro stops
Cal Crutchlow's Austrian MotoGP ended on just🧔 the second lap when a bike problem for Pol Espargaro saw the KTM rider suddenly powerless at Turn 3.
Tito Rabat and Crutchlow were ꦿcaught up in the aftermath, with the♔ LCR Honda rider down and out.
"I only managed just over a lap of the race, I was unfortunate to be caught up in an incident when Pol Espargaro’s bike st⛄opped and the rider in front of me [Rabat] hit the back of Pol and evidently I hit the back of Rabat," Crutchlow said.
"It was really slow speed when I hit hi⛎m, his bike hit my handlebar and just took me down.
Cal Crutchlow's Austrian MotoGP ended on just the second lap when a bike problem for Pol Es🦩pargaro saw the KTM rider suddenly powerless at Turn 3.
Tito Ra🍷bat and Crutchlow were caught up in the aftermath, with the L🅰CR Honda rider down and out.
"I only managed just over a lap of the race, I was unfortunate to be caught up in an incident when Poꦬl Espargaro’s bike stopped and the rider in front of me [Rabat] hit the back of Pol and evidently I hit the back of Rabat," Crutchlow said.
"It was really slow sp♓eed when I hit him, his bike hit my handlebar and just took me down.
"I was feeling quite positive for the ra💙ce and felt we could have got a good result here, s♚o it’s a disappointing way to end and not get information from a valuable race that I thought we could learn good lessons from.
"But that’s the way racing goes sometimes and we now have to look forwar♈d to my home Grand Prix at Silverstone."
Crutchlow is now ninth in the 🐬world championship standings, behind fellow satellite ꧂rivals Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha) and Jack Miller (Pramac Ducati).
Quartararo fin♔ished on the podium but Miller also crashed out at Red Bull Ring.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino ꦅRossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issue꧂s.
