Hometown hero Cal Crutchlow took a soaking wet MotoGP pole position at Silverstone this afternoon, beating Valentino Rossi by just less than a second as series leader Marc Marquez crashed out of contention with a carbon copy of the incident that put him out of last year’s race. Crutchlow timed a bite-the-screen lap of the Northamptonshire circuit to perfection, putting in a 2’19.265 lap just before the rain got worse and it took an equally-brave performance by Movistar Yamaha’s Rossi to grab second with a 2’20.263. The Isle of Man resident had seen great mate Jack Miller go down right in front of him at Luffield, worked out the conditions were getting substantially worse and put...
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