LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow, the first British winner of a top-level motorbike race since Barry Sheene 35 years ago, branded his fellow MotoGP stars “wimps” for not gambling on tyre choice. Crutchlow scored a 7s win over Valentino Rossi after gambling on hard-compound wet tyres, front and rear. Only Loris Baz, who finished fourth on his Avintia Ducati, made the same choice – with Rossi running a hard rear with a soft front. “I took the gamble, nobody else did – or I don’t know if anybody else did on the grid,” said Crutchlow. “As far as I’m concerned they’re all wimps – I don’t know why you’d chose one [hard] and not the other. “I’m really, really pleased for...
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