A ‘manic’ Japanese MotoGP saw Yamaha wild-card Cal Crutchlow get his second long lap penalty in as many days on the way to 13th place.
After exceeding track limits while battling to control the large aerodynamic package in the Sprint race, the Englishman received the second penalty for turning in too early to his pit box during the dry-to-wet bike swap.
“I [didn’t know] why I had the long lap. I thought they've made a mistake or I've knocked somebody off and I don't know I've knocked somebody off. So yeah, it was a manic race, but we took some positives out of it with regards to the bike.” “That was Yamaha's plan. I was happy to do it because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter where I finish, as long as we got some data,” he said.“I was pleased enough with my pace in the rain. We needed a dry race though, to be able to understand the direction with the setting that we tried today.”
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