Britain’s Cal Crutchlow will ride with an upgraded chassis and seat unit at Austin’s MotoGP round this weekend which will take him much closer to the spec of RC213V that Marc Marquez currently uses. But the CWM LCR Honda man warned the new package is more about consistency in corner entry and wouldn’t be generating a significant increase in pace, may just a tenth of a second a lap or less. At the moment Crutchlow uses the chassis that Marquez and Dani Pedrosa tested at Brno and Valencia, and hated. It was binned in favour of a new one at Sepang I and Crutchlow’s new chassis is similar to the one agreed on in Malaysia. “There is more consistency in corner entry, which is where we...
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