Britain's Cal Crutchlow stormed to the Jerez MotoGP pole position in Spain this afternoon and picked up the outright lap record in the process. The LCR Honda man hasn't been on pole since Silverstone 2016 but did it in style, putting in a 1'37.752 with his soft rear Michelin and then dropping the hammer to put in the fastest-ever lap of Jerez - a 1'37.653 - to beat Jorge Lorenzo's three-year-old benchmark by three-tenths. While Crutchlow used the hard front/soft rear, Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa stuck to the medium front for second place to follow Crutchlow home 0.259s in arrears while Johann Zarco pulled a lap out of nowhere to take the final front-row spot, 0.044s further back. More in a...
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