Cal Crutchlow calls riding for the factory Yamaha MotoGP team ‘a privilege’ on the eve of his return to Silverstone - a return ‘I never thought’ would happen after retiring last season.
The cancellation of the Sepang MotoGP tests meant Cal Crutchlow's return to Yamaha, and debut as a Factory test rider, has been pushed back until the remaining official tests in Qatar.
Cal Crutchlow expects MotoGP to continue producing surprise race winners in 2021 after a record nine riders (pictured) stood on the top step of the podium last season.
The top two riders in Q1 - Crutchlow and Morbidelli - now progress to the Q2 pole position shootout, where they will join the ten fastest riders after third practice. The others will start, in the following order, from 13th on the grid onwards…
The news that Yamaha has chosen not to continue with Jorge Lorenzo and instead sign Cal Crutchlow as its factory MotoGP test rider next season, prompted the following tweet from the five-time world champion likening the move to 'exchanging gold for bronze'.
Honda enjoyed its best collective day of the MotoGP season so far at Aragon on Friday, leading both sessions as LCR team-mates Takaaki Nakagami and Cal Crutchlow finished first and third and all four RCVs were inside the top 11.
Confirmation of Takaaki Nakagami's new contract officially completes Honda's 2021 MotoGP line-up. Marc Marquez will be joined by new signing Pol Espargaro at the factory Repsol team, while brother Alex moves to LCR alongside Nakagami, who is being upgraded to the latest machinery.
It's taken 18-months for a bike-lowering holeshot device, first seen on the Ducatis during 2019 pre-season testing, to spread across the MotoGP grid. Or nearly all of the grid anyway.
Having undergone surgery on both arms already this season, then been sidelined from both Misano rounds due to complications from the invasive arm-pump operation, Cal Crutchlow's MotoGP return at Catalunya got off to a bad start when he damaged his left ankle on Wednesday.
Cal Crutchlow, aiming to make his MotoGP return in Barcelona this weekend, has suffered an ankle injury after slipping at the Circuit de Catalunya on Wednesday.
Having faced a huge amount of fluid leaking out of his right forearm during the two weeks since major arm-pump surgery, Cal Crutchlow suffered the opposite problem during Friday practice for the Misano MotoGP.
Cal Crutchlow painted a grim picture of his right forearm, after complications following aggressive arm pump surgery ahead of this weekend's opening Misano MotoGP.
With just seven points from the opening five rounds, Cal Crutchlow had little reward for racing throughout his recovery from a fractured left wrist at the MotoGP season opener.
MotoGP rookie Brad Binder said he 'cannot think of anything more scary as a rider' than the kind of high-speed brake failure experienced by Maverick Vinales in Sunday's Styrian Grand Prix,
After taking a closer look at the video footage of the Johann Zarco-Franco Morbidelli incident in last Sunday's Austrian MotoGP race, Cal Crutchlow said he has now revised his opinion.