Cal Crutchlow ‘likely’ to do three MotoGP wild-cards in 2024
The newly announced revised MotoGP concessions system means Yamaha and Honda are now 🎃allowed up to six wild-cards.
But triple MotoGP race winner Crutchlow, who joined Yamaha as test rider at the end of 2020, says Yamaha is currentlyꦕ sticking to the old maximum o🦹f three.
“It’s all pretty new. With the [new 🦹concession] rules there are a lot of different scenarios that could happen,” Crutchlow told Dorna’s Jack Appleyard during the Valencia test.
“But we alr🍷eady had a plan that I’d most likely do three wild-cards.✤ I don’t think I’ll do anymore. But things change, as the rules change!
“I know two of the wild-cards, but one [other] is under negotiation because I definitely don’t want to 🤪do it! So we’re trying to swing it around a little bit.”
Crutchlow’s 2023 wild-card was at Yama🀅ha’s ho♔me event at Motegi.
As well as doubling the number of potential wild-cards, the 168澳洲🤡幸运5官方开奖结果历史:‘D’ concession ranking for Yamaha and Honda also provides for extra testing tyres, private testing with raceཧ riders and testing at any grand prix circuit.
But Crutchlow feels the biggest issue for Yamaha at present is the lack of a satellite team, witܫh every other MotoGP manufacturer having at least four bikes oಞn the grid.
“The thing that Yamaha lack is bikes on track,” Crutchlow said. “We have two bikes [factory team], so we need to do all the tests that we can do in the pre-season, whereas in the past couple of seas𝔉ons we haven’t done that.
“I think that r𝄹eally hinders the🅘 guys when they get to the first race. The other manufacturers have up to eight bikes going around at the same time, and test riders. Hopefully we can start next year better."
Crutchlow was 20th fastest at the Valencia test, directly behind new Yamaha signಌing Alex Rins.
Fabio Q🍒uartararo was the fastest M1 i🔜n twelfth place.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seeꦿn V💟alentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
