Yamaha is going through a crisis of results in MotoGP, striving hard to return to good results. Cal Crutchlow is part of the process as a test rider and believes in the work being done.
In the OMG! MotoGP podcast, the British rider emphasized that Fabio Quartararo’s renewal until 2026 is proof of this: ‘Honestly, I don’t know what their plan is for the new regulations in 2027. I have no idea. They need to get back to the front, first and foremost. And I think Fabio committing, them trusting Fabio and Fabio trusting them, shows that they are working in the right direction‘.
Crutchlow pointed out that Quartararo knows the team and the potential that the bike had in the past: ‘If you talk about the rider market, did he have somewhere else to go? I don’t know. But I believe he has been with them for a long time, he knows what they are capable of, he knows the bike he used to ride, which is the bike I also tested once, and it was phenomenal – the 2019 bike, the 2020 bike, Franco Morbidelli was riding that year, it was unbelievable‘.
Since then, the power of the bikes has been increasing, and #35 considers that this is the source of Yamaha’s problems: ‘Now we have more power, and more power, and more power every year, which is what Fabio asked for. That’s where the problem was created‘.
