Cal Crutchlow

British motorcycle racer

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2023 Final season in MotoGP with Yamaha, finishing 29th in the championship with 3 points. Completed his racing career with participation in multiple international Grand Prix events.
2022 Continued with Yamaha in MotoGP, finishing 25th in the championship with 10 points. Competed in various international races but had limited success.
2022 Replaced Andrea Dovizioso for the last six events of the season after Dovizioso's retirement.
2021 Switched to Yamaha in MotoGP but had a challenging season, finishing 28th with 0 points. Participated in multiple Grand Prix events but struggled to achieve significant results.
2021 Returned to race for two Yamaha teams as a replacement rider in four MotoGP events.
August 2021 Rode for Petronas Yamaha SRT in the Styrian Grand Prix in Austria, replacing Franco Morbidelli, and finished 17th out of 18 finishers.
August 2021 Rode for the Yamaha factory team at the British Grand Prix as a replacement, finishing in 17th position.
2020 Struggled in the MotoGP season with Honda, finishing 18th in the championship with only 32 points. Multiple DNS (Did Not Start) and retirement events during races.
2020 Completed his final regular season in MotoGP without a top five finish, and was replaced by Álex Márquez for 2021.
November 2020 Crutchlow was contracted as a test rider with the Monster Energy Yamaha factory team, replacing Jorge Lorenzo.
2019 Continued racing with Honda in MotoGP, finishing 9th in the championship with 133 points. Showed consistent performance across multiple Grand Prix events.
2018 Suffered severe lower-leg injuries in a crash at Phillip Island, Australia.
March 2018 Achieved his 3rd career MotoGP win in Argentina, finishing the season with 3 podiums and 148 points, despite missing the final 3 races due to injury.
2017 Extended his contract with LCR and Honda until 2019.
2017 Awarded the Torrens Trophy by the RAC for outstanding contribution to motorcycling in the United Kingdom.
October 2016 Won the Australian Grand Prix, becoming the first Briton ever to win this race, securing his first dry race victory.
August 2016 Won his first MotoGP race at the wet Czech Republic Grand Prix, ending a 35-year drought for British riders in the top flight since Barry Sheene's 1981 win.
August 2 2016 Crutchlow and his wife Lucy welcomed their first child, a daughter named Willow.
March 2015 Achieved his first podium with LCR Honda team, finishing third in Argentina after a last-lap pass on Andrea Iannone, which was also LCR's first podium since Stefan Bradl in 2013.
2014 Moved to the factory Ducati team, finishing 13th in the championship with a podium finish in Aragon.
January 2014 Cal Crutchlow married Lucy Heron in January.
2013 Achieved four podium finishes, scored 188 points, and finished 5th in the overall MotoGP standings as the top satellite rider.
2012 Achieved his first podium finish in the Czech Republic Grand Prix.
2012 Achieved two podium finishes and finished 7th in the overall MotoGP standings.
2011 Joined the MotoGP World Championship with Monster Yamaha Tech 3, completing his rookie season without a podium finish.

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