Bradley Smith endured a disastrous qualifying with two high-speed falls on the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 machine at Motegi in Japan, fortunately escaped unscathed. The British rider still qualified as the top satellite rider in ninth place on row three and believe he can challenge for the top five nonetheless. Smith, who set his best time in 1m 45.067s, also came off in FP3 and apologised to his team for creating an unplanned extra workload on Saturday. “First of all I want to start by apologising to the team for the extra work that I created today with my three crashes, which were all on laps where I was really pushing,” said Smith. “A big thanks as well to Pol's [Espargaro] guys who...
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