Sterilgarda Yamaha’s Cal Crutchlow was in Brno this weekend to take in the Grand Prix racing, but more likely he was deep in negotiations with Yamaha’s Tech3 manager Herve Ponchral who recently revealed that the British rider is on top of his shopping list to replace Ben Spies, who is now heading to the Yamaha factory team.
Crutchlow admitted after his WSBK double win at Silverstone that he wants to ride as soon as possibile in MotoGP may get his wish sooner than later, because according to Randy Mamola, who is part of Cal Crutchlow’s management, let it slip to the BBC that Crutchlow could actually be testing the Tech 3 Yamaha during tomorrow’s MotoGP test at Brno.
Valentino Rossi is now officially banned from testing anything new on the Yamaha M1 and will not be getting any upgrades for the rest of the season, the testing of the 2011 YZR- M1 will fall into the hands of Jorge Lorenzo and Tech 3 rider Ben Spies will probably get an opportunity to ride the new machine and give his feedback on the bike he’ll be riding next year.