Cal Crutchlow offered new three-year Yamaha contract

Cal Crutchlow says he has been offered a new three-year Yamaha MotoGP testing contract.

The Englishman, who won three MotoGP races for LCR during a full-time career with Yamaha, Ducati and Honda machinery between 2011 and 2020, signed as the factory’s test rider for 2021.

“We need to make sure we're more consistently on the bike also for the engineers. And that's how you make progress.Crutchlow finished the Motegi weekend with 13th place in the red-flagged grand prix, having been forced to serve a long lap penalty “We don't need more power. Trust me. I know what the other manufacturers are doing. How many Newton metres [of torque] they are using on the exit of the corner. We are using a lot more and the engine is not smooth. So we need to go in this [smoother] direction.

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