Despite being out of MotoGP as a full time rider, Cal Crutchlow continues to pay close attention to the action in the category and the rumours that continue to circulate about Marc Marquez’s future.
Crutchlow, who will be racing in MotoGP this weekend in Japan, spoke about the #93’s future and explained that a possible move to Ducati would have a very strong impact on the championship and would be detrimental to the rest of the riders: ‘If it was Marc… shit, I don’t even know… I’ve always said that if Marc went to a Ducati the rest might not show up. I’ve always said that, and for that reason I don’t want him to go, I want him to turn the situation around with Honda but it’s my… well, I don’t care either. I want to see a good race on the tv’.
He added: ‘Marc is, I still believe, the rider with the best talent and I also had the privilege of riding with him and I was also riding a Honda at the same time, I know what he was doing, I understood it, but I couldn’t do it. If he goes to Ducati maybe the championship will become completely boring […]’.
Marc Marquez currently has an offer from Gresini Racing and could join his brother Alex Marquez at the Italian team, with Paolo Ciabatti and Davide Tardozzi already talking publicly about the ‘opportunity’ that Nadia Padovani’s team has.