The double winner and best privateer of the 2016 season is done with his Honda this year. He is about to have the operation and he will also take advantage of it to enjoy the existence of a fulfilled family man. Before taking up his winter quarters, the Briton still threw out a few sentences during the Valencia tests which he has the secret to…
The two days of testing in Valencia were an opportunity to Cal Crutchlow to test the solutions proposed to official HRC pilots. Discoveries which confirmed the LCR pilot in his feeling that a Honda is much more difficult to ride than a Yamaha.
To illustrate his point, he took the two new Tech3 drivers as a reference: “ Folger and Zarco climbed on the satellite Yamaha and they were competitive from the start » he announces on crash.net. " However, they are not the fastest drivers in the world and they are far from it, but their package is so accessible that they are now very competitive ».
He pursues : " Look at Tito Rabat: he broke them when he was in Moto2 and today he is nowhere. Not even in the same range of their times. It's the same problem with Honda since I discovered it. They know this at the factory and they are doing what they can to resolve this problem ". However, it was with an RC213V that Cal won his two Grand Prix victories. None with the Yamaha Tech3…
