Supersport World Championship
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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 | Replaced Andrea Dovizioso for the last six events of the season after Dovizioso's retirement. |
2022 | Continued with Yamaha in MotoGP, finishing 25th in the championship with 10 points. Competed in various international races but had limited success. |
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 two podium finishes and finished 7th in the overall MotoGP standings. |
2012 | Achieved his first podium finish in the Czech Republic Grand Prix. |
2011 | Joined the MotoGP World Championship with Monster Yamaha Tech 3, completing his rookie season without a podium finish. |
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