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Cal Crutchlow returns to MotoGP action for the first time since Valencia 2022 with a wild-card entry at this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix.

Reigning World Superbike champion Alvaro Bautista will make a wild-card entry in this year's Malaysian MotoGP from 10th-12th November.

Yamaha has officially confirmed that three-time MotoGP race winner and factory test rider Cal Crutchlow will make a wild-card entry at this year’s Motegi round, in Japan

World Superbike champion Alvaro Bautista continues to play down the prospect of making a Troy Bayliss-style return to MotoGP at the end of this season.

Sixth on the grid, then sixth and seventh in the Jerez races meant Dani Pedrosa delivered the most impressive wild-card performance in recent MotoGP history.

Alongside a new Ducati World Superbike contract came the news that Alvaro Bautista will soon get the chance to test the factory’s MotoGP bike.

Dani Pedrosa says it 'could be interesting' to enter a MotoGP race as a wild-card for KTM to enhance his test-riding work. Should he race in Austria, Pedrosa might find himself lining-up against former Honda colleague and new Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow...

Jorge Lorenzo has mixed feelings after being denied a chance to return to the MotoGP grid as a wild-card in 2020. After retiring from full-time competition last November, following a punishing season at Honda, the triple premier-class champion stepped into the role of Yamaha test rider.

MotoGP's Grand Prix Commission recently announced the cancellation of wild-cards this season, as part of a growing range of measures taken in response to the coronavirus crisis.

So far, retired triple MotoGP champion and new Yamaha test rider Jorge Lorenzo has committed to one wild-card appearance this season, at his home Barcelona round on June 5-7.

MotoGP wild-card rules revised

Tom Sykes has been rewarded for his World Superbike performance at Brands Hatch with the chance to impress once again at the Donington Park round of the championship next month.