Cal Crutchlow is coming out of a Californian refuge which he will have to leave to reach Europe, and so will his Grand Prix colleagues who hope to launch their MotoGP season in Jerez on July 19. In the world before, crossing the Atlantic in this way was a formality. But today, we must prepare for a long journey full of pitfalls. Before that, he spoke to his compatriots at BT Sports to advocate driving distancing measures with Marc Márquez. Under penalty of having your health deteriorated...
Cal Crutchlow no longer think too much about taking a retirement which tickled him before the coronavirus don't put us under house arrest and stop making a world go round that has since disappeared. So, in all things bad is good. But he hasn't signed anything yet Honda for after 2020, while Pol Espargaro lurking around, just in case...
From this still unclear situation, the pilot LCR doesn't worry much about it. In an interview with BT Sport, he prefers to recall that Marc Márquez is a unique case on the Honda, which hardly encourages its accessibility for other pilots who are equipped with it: “ it's hard to understand how he does it, because he wins even when his bike isn't able to do so. The way he manages to control the bike, the risks he takes, how he manages to make it slide and his use of the brakes is incredible. » This is the observation of Cal Crutchlow.
The art of controlling front wheel lock
« Over 20 laps I can guarantee that Marc locks the front wheel three or four times more than any other Honda rider » the Englishman is surprised. “ In the data we see the deceleration line. When it becomes irregular, it indicates that there is a blockage. If another driver has 6 peaks on this line, he can have 15 peaks in a curve or length of two meters. And he does it for 20 rounds and still manages to win. It's just the way he drives. The rest of us lock the front wheel quite often, we can figure out how to do it, but it's something spectacular to see how well Márquez manages to do it, how he manages to control it and not fall. »
But then, since everything is recognized by telemetry, why not imitate it? The answer is clear: “ on the one hand it is good to be able to learn from him, but on the other hand you cannot learn from him because if you try to do what Marc does, it doesn't end well. Sometimes you can do some of his things, but you have to put a filter in first and start from there. »
