If we have 200,000 people come out to an event, everyone needs to be safe before we think about opening up the doors. AHRMA Announces 2021 Tentative Roadrace Schedule, Indian Motorcycle and RSD Enter King Of The Baggers, 2021 Mama Tried Show and Race Announcement, Klock Werks Sponsoring Travis Wyman Racing BMW at MotoAmerica Season Finale, GEICO Motorcycle Announced as 2020 EnduroCross Title Sponsor, Trystan Hart Signs With FMF KTM Factory Racing Team Through 2023. As soon as they canceled the first race, I said to Lucy, “The first race is going to be Austin, so let’s go to California because when the race happens, we’ll already be there.” So, we came here then; we’ve been in California since, before Austin. We catch up with LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow who has been waiting things out at home in Southern California. I feel good. There is no set plan to go back to racing, so you just have to maintain. PMT Tires To Sponsor MotoAmerica Mini Cup by Motul. For some people, testing can be not beneficial, and doing too much might not be beneficial, but I feel I find the good balance with the guys with doing enough, but not too much. Yeah, we just try our best. It’s been over a month now, at least. Latest News & Race Reports; Latest Social Media Updates; Photos; 2019; Cal; Fanzone; Newsletter; Home; Latest. The LCR rider has continued to struggle from complications due to an arm pump operation he underwent at the end of August, but managed to qualify fourth at Le Mans on Saturday. Well, I’ve been very, very lucky in that I’ve still been able to go out and cycle! By Eric Johnson | Photography by Monster Media. Obviously, I know how important it was. Thanks Homes of Hope and @doMoreThanSport’. No doubt. Crutchlow, from Coventry, wrote on Twitter: ‘Today was a very humbling day for Lucy and I. Now in the twilight of his career, there were rumors of Crutchlow retiring in 2020, but the British racer set the record straight: “As far as my future, I want to continue because I want to prove to myself that I have speed, and I can win,” Crutchlow told Autosport last October. We enjoy ice cream, but I’ll be ready to go when they say go, no doubt. Even at the end of last year, I also said I could continue in 2021, and I feel like I’m in a good position to do so, I’m motivated, and the want to be able to continue is there, so I don’t think this break has changed anything in that aspect because we’re already talking to Honda about renewing even before we went racing this year. Although they sponsor us to be in MotoGP, they are also great people and great friends, and it’s nice to be able to check on them as well and make sure that things are well. Like all racers right now, Cal Crutchlow is anxious to get back in the saddle again. Cal Crutchlow arrived in MotoGP in 2011 and ultimately managed to score Rookie of … Ah, I don’t know, I mean with regards to my situation, I’m happy with what I’ve done, I’m happy with what I achieved, I’m having a great career that I’ve enjoyed. It could have been better, it could have been worse, but in the end, I have given it my all, 100-percent, but I don’t think I’m finished yet. Then I was able to push a little bit in the second and third runs which was good enough to put me in the top three today. Home; Latest. I feel trained enough. But on the other hand, we know that we’re not racing for a couple of months and you need to take the time right now to do things. I just try and do my best week in and week out. Photograph: Mirco Lazzari gp/Getty Images Crutchlow also came into MotoGP from Superbikes rather than rising through the … Hopefully, we can get the racing under way, and once we do, the fans can come as well. Cal Crutchlow rides his LCR Honda to first place at the Argentina GP. We’re down in San Diego, we have our house here, and we’re enjoying the weather as much as possible, and we’re really happy because we have a bit of land here. We’ll see how it turns out this year. In windy, cool conditions in the morning’s FP1 session, the Briton struggled to find his best form and finished in tenth spot. With MotoGP 2020 still out in the pandemic wilderness, Cal, along with wife Lucy and young daughter Willow, found their way out of England, and, in recent weeks, hunkered down in their home on outskirts of San Diego, California, waiting for Dorna to tell him where to go next. Willow can still go outside, and she’s got the pool. We had a little issue with the turning of the bike, and in Qatar, we finally found something that was maybe making the turning a little bit worse than last year, but that’s what it’s about: doing laps around the track, every chance, and giving information to Honda and the engineers there, who are very, very clever and work very, very hard for us. Also, on the other hand, I’ve been speaking to my sponsors. CAL Crutchlow has been helping to build a house for a poor family in Mexico. So now it is the very tail end of April and MotoGP, as it is with virtually every other form of motor racing at the time being, has yet to hold the first race of the year. I really hope we can, and I hope we can get to racing that the fans can see, as well, but we have to make sure that it is safe to do so. LCR’s Cal Crutchlow says a slipping clutch on the warm-up lap of the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix almost forced him into starting from pitlane on his spare Honda. “We’re just trying to buckle down and hide from the coronavirus.”. We race and we’re in the entertainment business, and there is nothing we like more than to race and to entertain the crowd at the circuits. As I said, you have to maintain your health and enjoy yourself a little bit, as well, in this period. Yeah, we’re down here in Rancho Santa Fe, California. I feel healthy enough and ready to go when they say go. (1’48.111 ) They’re sort of on a lockdown thing. Crutchlow qualified on the front row for the first time since the 2019 US GP last Sunday at Aragon in third, but was swamped off the startline and was 11th at the end of the opening lap. The British MotoGP rider and his bride Lucy Heron took time out from their honeymoon to work with the charity Homes for Hope. Barry Sheene won 35 years before, I was number 35, and it took 35 years to get it. “We’re doing good,” said the good-spirited HRC pilot of his California walkabout. Latest News & Race Reports; Latest Social Media Updates; Photos; 2019; Cal; Fanzone; Newsletter; Cal Crutchlow | #35 | LCR Honda MotoGP World Championship Rider. Top Independent Team rider in 2016 and a podium finisher once again in 2017, Crutchlow remained with the LCR team in both 2018 and 2019 where the Englishman, despite starting strong the first half of the ’19 season (Cal got on the podium three times), placed an off-song ninth overall in the MotoGP World Championship. The couple married on January 5 in La Jolla, California. It was something that will go down in the history books. Signing up to race for LCR Honda the year after, Crutchlow’s greatest glory came in 2016 when he ran to a stunning victory in the wet at rain-lashed Brno—the first British MotoGP Grand Prix winner in 35 years—and then followed that up with another win at Phillip Island, Australia. Lucy and Willow are not going out at the moment. The LCR Honda CASTROL rider demonstrated the pace that saw him qualify on the front row last weekend as he ended the day in third position.