Grand Prix drivers are high-level athletes but also extraordinary beings who know how to manage pain. Their body suffered, still suffers and will always suffer. A torture that they manage to balance with the passion for their job and adrenaline. But they also know that they will pay for it forever, later, when all this whirlwind stops and they find themselves facing themselves... An incredible mental strength that Cal Crutchlow illustrates by admitting to living as a martyr. But he doesn't want to let go and he explains why...
In an interview with crash.net, Cal Crutchlow confesses: “ I have a problem with the nerve in my ankle. After riding, the pain is incredible. At the start of the year, it was a disaster. In the middle of the year it was good and in August it was a disaster again. Then everything was fine for a month and it started to get worse again. ". The solutions? Have another operation. But… " This would mean a winter of convalescence. And I don't want to. »
Six weeks of rehabilitation after an operation would give him lifelong relief. But the Englishman remembers being absent during the last off-season, because his reconstructed ankle since his terrible accident at Phillip Island prevented him from getting back on a motorcycle. The development of the new RC213V was carried out under the sole directive of Marc Márquez. With the result that we know…
Crutchlow will grit its teeth to bring its voice this time into the development of the future Honda. It will therefore be Valencia and Jerez, which then means that no surgical intervention can be carried out unless it is not operational for the tests of Sepang in February. We now understand better why ideas of retirement sometimes float through people's minds. Cal Crutchlow. Which would be a relief. But he will keep his plate in the redone ankle and too bad for this cursed nerve which tortures him...
Cal Crutchlow was still the only Honda rider to reach the podium this year, with Marc Marquez. He took two third places in Qatar and Germany and a second in Australia.
