Cal Crutchlow described his ♏mood as “disaꦫppointed” and “devastated” after the British Grand Prix which he had designs on winning was cancelled due to a track surface that was unable to drain standing water successfully.

On Sunday evening, the Englishman revealed he was willing to race later in the afternoon, but said he fully accepted the Safety Commission’s decision to cancel all three grand prix, an unprecedented🐽 feat in modern times.

Crutchlow also stated ther❀e were spells between the race’s initial start time of 11:30 and 16:00, when the final decision was taken, during which he felt the rain had rꦏelented sufficiently to race.

As it was, he was left to contemplate a missed opportunity to challenge for a home race win. Had the rain not come on Sunday, Crutchlow felt he wa⭕s “in great shape to potentially win” this weekend.

“We have to address the situation of why we didn't race today,” said Crutchlow, who had qualified fourth for Sunday’s premier class race. “As has been explained, the Safety Commission decided it was not possible to race toda♊y in any condition – if it continued to stop raining or if it continued to rain.

“Just simply because if it rained a lot when you are halfway around the lap and you get to the next corner you don't know how deep 𒁏the water is. You don't understand the situation, like we didn't yesterday and you saw what happened, five guys crashed.

“The decision was they could have taken the race at 16:30. At the time we were in the Safety Commission. I think at 16:30 maybe it was possible to race, but a lot of riders voted that t💝hey didn't want to continue with the grand prix and we have to respect that decision.

“Would I have raced? Yes, probably. But that's not the issue. The issue is the riders' decided that they wouldn't race and we have to respect that decision because it wasn't safe🐠, you could see it wasn't safe when we left pit-lane for the sighting lap. Whether the water gಞot any less or any more… how do you know it's not going to rain again halfway around the lap and it's a long lap here.

“I'm very disappointed and devastated that the fans never got to see a race today. Also for everybody who watched, who turned up, who🌃 worked all weekend, the marshals that sat there. As I said, it's disappointing, but we all wan⛄ted to race. All the riders came here this weekend to race.

“It's𓆉 not that we just turn around and say, 'we'll have a weekend off'. We don't want to 🅺be sat here either not being able to put on a show for the fans that have turned up. We tried our best, but this was the decision of the Safety Commission, that we wouldn't ride.

“I'm disappointed yes because I didn🐻't get to ride at home, whether I would have won, lost or drawn I would have loved to have raced at home. In the dry I felt I was in great shape to p🐻otentially win the race this weekend.

“There was a window earlier in the day, I felt as well. But I don't know the reasons why we didn't go out or not to go then. But earlier when we wenꦛt to the grid, it was impossible to race. That's for sure.

“Then also in afternoon they were still trying to disperse♏ the water for a long time. And then it started to rain again. So when the actual people were out on the track✨ trying to move the water, it started to rain again after that window.”

Was po✅stponing the race to Monday ever a realistic consideration? “No, I think the decision to race on Monday is a logis🀅tical nightmare and again, like cancelling a grand prix, it's not as easy as just saying 'race tomorrow',” he said.

“I wish it was and everybody wishes it was ꦡbecause it's a Bank Holiday here tomorrow and I think you would have had a vast majority of the crowd able to come back. But I don't think it's that easy or simple.”

On the conditions he encounꦦtered when leaving pit lane📖 before the scheduled start at 11:30, Crutchlow said, “It was most of the track, yeah. I came out of pit lane and started to change gear and you were just spinning, spinning… and not spinning like a used tyre, you were spinning on surface water.

“So you can im🧸agine when you shut the throttle or brake with the front brake, you are aquaplaning with the front not the rear. You can half manage to aquaplane with the rear because you have a throttle in your hand. But when you have a bra𝄹ke in your hand and it's to do with the front it's a lot more difficult, the situation.”