Despite being actively out of MotoGP as a rider, Cal Crutchlow remains very attentive to the unfolding action in the category and to the rumors circulating about Marc Márquez’s future.
Crutchlow, who will be racing in MotoGP this weekend in Japan, talked about the future of #93 and explained that a possible move to Ducati would have a very strong impact on the championship and be detrimental to the other riders: ‘If Marc went… damn, I don’t even know… I always said that if Marc went to Ducati, the rest might not even show up. I’ve always said this, and for that reason, I don’t want him to go, I want him to turn the situation around with Honda but that’s my… well, I don’t really care. I want to see a good race on TV’.
And he added: ‘Marc is, I still believe, the pilot with the best talent and I also had the privilege of driving with him and was also driving a Honda at the same time, I know what he was doing, I understood him, but I couldn’t do it.’ ‘If he goes to Ducati, maybe the championship will become completely boring […].’
Marc Márquez currently has an offer from Gresini Racing and can join his brother Álex Márquez in the Italian team, with Paolo Ciabatti and Davide Tardozzi already talking publicly about the ‘opportunity’ that Nadia Padovani’s team has.