Cal Crutchlow has slammed Michelin for allocating a tyre that it will only allow riders to complete 10 laps on for this weekend’s Phillip Island MotoGP race. The French tyre company mandated a maximum stint length of 10 laps on its supersoft compound wet-weather front tyre during Friday practice. Valentino Rossi was caught out by the ruling, doing an 11-lap run on the supersoft rubber, which meant he had the majority of his laptimes deleted and fell from second to 20th on the timesheets in FP1. He lost the chance of improving his time in second practice after it was cancelled amid worsening weather conditions. Crutchlow questioned the wisdom of Michelin bringing a tyre to Australia that...
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