KTM's Pol Espargaro says his crash in MotoGP FP2 at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was a result of being forced to run the medium front tyre he "cannot use". Espargaro has typically favoured the hard front tyre on his KTM this season, but due to having an allocation of just five to get through the weekend he was forced to use the medium option. The KTM rider says he had a "big lock-up" on the tyre braking for the Turn 13 right-hander early in the second session at Misano and "needed to crash" when he ran off as the "speed was huge". "We have just five hard ones [front tyre] to use for the weekend, which is the one that gives me the safety to...
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