WAIT WAIT, how did we gloss over this,quote? !
“I'm not stupid. I'm not one to take any risks, especially with other riders on track,” he said. “When I got up from the warm-up crash I was dizzy and my helmet was finished. But I felt ok. I never had any vision problems or headaches. I had my lunch and I felt fine, I went to the grid and I felt fine.
“Then in the warm-up lap I noticed that I couldn't see the other bikes too well. It felt like the same as the first lap of practice every weekend, where you feel sick like you are on a roller-coaster because you haven't ridden a bike at 200mph for two weeks. You feel sick or you feel an adrenaline rush.
“I felt like that for the first six laps of the race. If I had no-one in front of me I felt fine but when I had people around me I felt I couldn't ride with them because I couldn't really focus. But when I had no-one in front of me I was fine.”
However Crutchlow insists that didn't contribute to his fall in the race.
“I think that looking back it wasn't the wrong decision to have raced because it had nothing to do with my crash in the race. Was it safe enough for me to race? I've seen people race in a lot worse condition to me that shouldn't have been racing but as I've sad I wouldn't take the risk with other riders. I felt that I was OK, as long as someone wasn't too close in front of me, and at no point did I try to stay close to the rider in front. I was able to keep Bradley behind and there was a gap ahead. I honestly felt ok, but with hindsight after the race I didn't feel too good.”
