Takaaki Nakagami continues to have a 'respectful🍌' relaꩵtionship with LCR team-mate Cal Crutchlow, but admits things changed between them after Catalunya.

Naka🔥gami launched what Crutchlow felt was an unnecessarily hard pass early in the June race, pushing the Englishman wide and causing him to ꦉlose several positions.

When asked on Friday whether Nakagami deservܫes t🐠he 2020 machinery he is seeking from HRC, which would put the Japanese on a par with the support Crutchlow gets, the triple MotoGP race winner made🦄 clear they are not the best of friends.

"No, he doesn't deserve it, I don’t think," Crutchlow said. "But I'm not re🍌ally going to say anything good about him at the moment because my relationship with him is not fantastic. But, it's Honda's decision. I don’t think he deserves it, no. He's had one fifth place in all the grands prix."

Quizzed on the matter on Saturday afternoon in Brno, Nakagami indicated the 'change' between them had been the Catalunya incident combin🥂ed with a natural rivalryꩵ between team-mates.

"My feeling [with Cal] is still okay. Of cours๊e, Montmelo during the race, I took a little👍 bit of a risk to overtake him and after that he got angry. But as I said after the race, 'this is racing'," said Nakagami, who uses a year-old bike.

"A little bit changed [after that], but still I'm respectful. Of course I always, let's say, want ♚to beat him, be෴cause this is the rival; the team-mate is the biggest of the targets.

"So from my side I didn’t change anything… I'm still respectful and always I compare Cal's data. I feel like this is MotoGP, everybody wants to beat [everyone]. I want to focus on myself because Iღꦦ'm not perfect, still I'm not good enough. This I understand.

🐠"Still we have ten races to go and 𝄹I want to grow up race-by-race and if I have a chance, not every race but some races, I want to beat Cal."

Crutchlow﷽ had added that Nakagami needed to "fight for the top six every week andও be on the podium" to justify a 2020 bike.

"I don’t know, because I don’t know his opinion... of course he doesn’t want [me on the] same bike, because it's more rival and I'm growing up," Nakagami responded. "So I understand what Cal said, but finally it will✱ be HRC's decision, not his decision."

Crut♏chlow qualified 11th and Nakagami 13th at Brno on Saturday.