Cal Crutchlow and the LCR Honda team spent last week's Catalun🏅ya post-race test evaluating 'a lot of small items', including aerodynamic parts, plus two completely differently set-ups for the 2019 ﷽RCV.

One set-up was from the prev🌌ious Italian MotoGP at Mugello, while the other was ♒used in the Catalunya race. But the Englishman and his team were left 'none the wiser' since, "I can do the same lap time on both settings."

Crutchlow - who fell while trying to pas🍰s ꦗJack Miller for fourth in the closing stages of the Barcelona race - explained:

"My 'normal' bike, that I like best, is the one that uses the most energy because it is more difficult to change direction. Here at a circuit like this it is not that bad, or th꧅at haꩵrd, but at Mugello you’ll know about it.

"Again, ✨you can change the bike [set-up] a big amount and still be able to do the same lap-time and have a similar feeling. We have to continue to evaluate that, but there will be no quick fix on I think.

"Overall I feel as good as I did inಞ the race and I’ve used the same tyres, medium front and medium rear. I’m not 💝interested in chasing lap times, just race pace."

While Mar👍c Marquez has taken the latest Honda to a healthy world championship lead, Crutchlow has only one podium on the machine to date, with Jorge Lorenzo yet to even break the top ten.

Front-end feeling on corner entry is a common issue for both Crutchlow and Lorenzo. It may also be related to the heavy nature of the handling, which is c🍌osting the factory trio during high-speed changes of direction.

"The bike is hard to ride, as it always has been. All you have to do is watch the TV🦋. But they [Honda] know that and it doesn't mean there iಞs a quick fix to it," Crutchlow said.

"It’s a combination of many things I think and the thing that can be improved first is the turning. That will also help with the physicality, because we are forcing the🥀 bike to turn and change direction, and if it turns [better] then it will fall into the corner a li𝔍ttle bit more."

The𒁏 #35 added: "We are obviously always trying to improve [the front end] but at the moment I did not improve it wღith what we are testing.

"We’ll continue to give the information and I think with what Marc and Jorge are testing it might be improved, but I am on a different schedule to them. [We share testing between us] I tౠhink that is the correct way."

Crutchlow set the tenth fastest lap time at the tﷺest, which also saw team-mate Takaaki Nakagami (who usually races the 2018 spec Honda) try a 2019 machine for the first time.

The Honda rid✤ers still have their one fairing design update for this season available.