Crutchlow doubles up in Monza Q1
| Friday, 07 May 2010 17:18 |
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Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha Sterilgarda) confirmed his earlier form by doubling up with quickest time also in the afternoon qualifying session. The Coventry man set a time of 1 minute 44.577 seconds, two-tenths of a second faster than Assen double winner Jonathan Rea (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda), while third quickest time went to Michel Fabrizio, who put in sterling work on the Ducati Xerox 1098.
The BMW Motorrad team continued to make headway in qualifying with first Ruben Xaus and then Troy Corser both lying at the top of the timesheets for a while. In the end the Australian set the fourth time, ahead of points leader Leon Haslam (Suzuki Alstare).
Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia), who had set an astonishing record top speed of close to 327 km/h in FP1, finished seventh, while Yoshimura WSB debut rider Daisaku Sakai had a tough baptism with the Monza track, earning himself a provisional nineteenth place together with an afternoon crash.
