Cal Crutchlow ‘likely’ to do three MotoGP wild-cards in 2024
The newly announced revised MotoGP concessions system means Yamaha and Hon💎da are now allowedꦇ up to six wild-cards.
But triple MotoGP race wi♎nner🉐 Crutchlow, who joined Yamaha as test rider at the end of 2020, says Yamaha is currently sticking to the old maximum of three.
“It’s all pretty new. With the [new concessi❀on] rules there are a lot of different scenarios that could happe🐎n,” Crutchlow told Dorna’s Jack Appleyard during the Valencia test.
“But w🅺e already had a plan that I’d most likely do thre♓e wild-cards. I don’t think I’ll do anymore. But things change, as the rules change!
“I know two of the wiꦫld-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 Yꦬamaha’s home 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 rಌanking for Yamaha and Honda also proviಌdes for extra testing tyres, private testing with race riders and testing at any grand prix circuit.
But Crutchlow feels t🦋he biggest issue for Yamaha at present is the lack of a satellite team, with every othꦍer MotoGP manufacturer having at least four bikes on the grid.
“The thing that Yamaha lack is bikes on track,” Crutchlow said.𒆙 “We have two bikes [factory te𓆉am], so we need to do all the tests that we can do in the pre-season, whereas in the past couple of seasons we haven’t done that.
“I think that really hinders the guys when they get to the first race. The other manufacturers have up to eight bikes going around at the sam🐼e time, and test riders. Hopefully we can start next year better."
Crutchlow was 20th fastest at the Valencia test, directly behind new Yamaha signing Al🍸ex 🅰Rins.
Fabio Quartar🌄aro was the ๊fastest M1 in twelfth place.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury i꧒ssues.
