Cal Crutchlow
Cal Crutchlow ( born October 29, 1985 in Coventry ) is a British motorcycle racer.
Since the 2011 season, he goes in the Tech 3 team in the MotoGP class of the Motorcycle World Championship at the start.
- 2.1 beginnings
- 2.2 In the Supersport World Championship
- 2.3 In the Superbike World Championship
- 2.4 In the World Motorcycle Championship
- 3.1 External links
- 3.2 Notes and references
Career
Although his father Derek was even motorcycle racer and Cal Crutchlow of early childhood Europe attended the races with his family, the Brit did not care at first for the motorcycle sport. Instead, he played football and had tryouts and Others at Coventry City and Aston Villa. In the spring of 1999, he sat for the first time on a motorcycle and was so impressed that he was already a week later on an Aprilia RS125 that had bought him his father once, at two race of the UK Junior Challenge in Darley Moor participated. Crutchlow took it ranks one and two, learned during the season added steadily and won the championship with nine wins, six second and three third ranks.
2000 started Cal Crutchlow in the Aprilia 125 Challenge, which was held in the framework program of the British Superbike Championship. The Briton took it against future greats like Casey Stoner or Chaz Davies and reached steady rankings in the top ten, which helped him to fifth in the standings and finished third in his age group. The following season, Crutchlow competed in the championship with the previous machine of Chaz Davies, he was able to buy thanks to the support of a sponsor. At the start of the season he was, an organization to support young racers added to the ACU Road Race Academy. The Briton started the season well, but broke off in an accident at Brands Hatch an elbow joint, which would almost mean the end of the season. Crutchlow finished the Championship with 17 podiums from 22 races still a winner.
In the 2002 season, Cal Crutchlow stepped to the side of Tom Sykes on a Suzuki GSX -R 600 of the newly formed team Tech2 in the Junior Superstock Championship. He was the youngest starter in the series and drove for the first time on a four-stroke engine, but the Briton finished the season fourth overall.
2003 was Cal Crutchlow compete for Tech2 in the British Supersport Championship, which due to financial difficulties could not be realized. The Briton was informed only six weeks before the start of the season and therefore could not muster the necessary sponsorship money for the start of another team, which is why he decided to launch the brand trophy Virgin Mobile Yamaha R6 Cup. Crutchlow went a little too motivated in the season and fell in three of the first six runs by fall. At the end of the season he still finished with four wins and nine podium finishes second championship rank behind Tommy Hill, which earned him a spot on Team North Point Ekerold Honda for 2004.
British Championship (2004-2008)
From 2004 to 2006 Cal Crutchlow started for the factory-supported Team North Point Ekerold Honda to Honda CBR 600 in the British Supersport Championship. In the first year, he finished with constant finishes among the top ten tenth overall. He was with two wins and six podium finishes ex-aequo with Stuart Easton third overall in 2005. In 2006, Crutchlow won with six wins and eleven podiums in 13 races the championship by a large margin ahead of Tom Sykes.
Back in 2005, celebrated as a wildcard rider Cal Crutchlow his debut in the Superbike World Championship. He started at Silverstone and Brands Hatch and posted it a failure and a tenth. In 2006 he went with a wildcard at Brands Hatch at the start and was it fifth.
For the 2007 season, Crutchlow joined the British Superbike Championship, where he went to the starting line for the Rizla Suzuki team at the side of the four-time champion Chris Walker. In Croft, he drove one of his first pole position at Brands Hatch succeeded the British his first podium finish. He graduated from The Championship in ninth.
2008 Cal Crutchlow joined HM Plant Honda, where he formed a team with Leon Haslam. In the second round for the second season at Thruxton event his first victory was in the championship. At the next race weekend at Oulton Park he went from pole position in the race, but crashed in race two and retired while an ankle injury. In the rest of the season Crutchlow get a win and nine other podium finishes, which led him behind Shane Byrne and Leon Haslam to third place in the overall standings.
His debut in the Superbike World Championship was Cal Crutchlow in 2008 as a wildcard rider at the European run, which was held at Donington Park. As it turned out in the first race, he finished second in the second race of the day after the Japanese Ryuichi Kiyonari. At the last race of the season in the Portuguese Portimão, on which the HM Plant team also participated with wildcards, the Brit retired on the first race and came out also in the second race in ninth place.
Supersport World Championship ( 2009)
Already on 23 September 2008 it was confirmed that Crutchlow would compete in the Supersport World Championship for the Yamaha factory team Yamaha World Supersport team of Wilco Zeelenberg 2009. His teammate was the world champion of the 2002 season, Fabien Foret of France.
Crutchlow started with the ranks four and three in Australia and Qatar in the season. In the third round at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, his first victory was, then he reached six podium finishes in a row, including three more wins. At the race in Brno, Czech Republic Crutchlow retired with a technical defect. Another win at the Nürburgring and finished second at Magny -Cours procured the Britons before the last race of the season in Portimao a lead of 19 points on his worst track, the Irish Honda rider Eugene Laverty. Cal Crutchlow rode to his 24th birthday at a safe fourth place, thus securing seven points ahead of Laverty, who won the race for the title.
Overall, the Briton was able to enter this season with 14 races with five wins and three second and two third places. He drove ten times on the pole position and turned the fastest race lap nine times.
Superbike World Championship ( 2010)
Through his successful season in the Supersport World Championship Cal Crutchlow had a few options for 2010. So places in the Superbike World Championship and the newly created Moto2 class of the motorcycle world championship he was offered. He finally decided to offer one of the Yamaha Sterilgarda team of Massimo Meregalli, for which he on Yamaha YZF- R1 in the Superbike World Championship was launched in 2010. His teammate was compatriot and double world champion James Toseland.
In the second race weekend of the season in Portimao Crutchlow went first to the pole position in the second race he was able to secure third place with the first podium of his World Superbike career. During the following seven events, the Briton further three third places, two Poles and constant placements reached the top ten. In the UK run, which took place at Silverstone, Cal Crutchlow reached the maximum yield. He drove to the pole position and won both races each with the fastest lap of the race. In the remaining six races of the season the British succeeded another victory, a second and two third places.
Crutchlow was 2010 in 26 races celebrate three wins, a second and six third places and eight fastest laps. In 13 events, he ran six times on the pole position, more than any other driver in the season. The Briton finished with 284 points in fifth place in the overall standings, was the best Yamaha rider and was in the final standings almost 100 points ahead of his experienced team-mate Toseland.
MotoGP class
In September 2010, it was officially announced by Yamaha Crutchlow change in the MotoGP class of the Motorcycle World Championship. The 168 cm Briton fell in 2011 by French privateer team Tech 3 at the start and drove in the first year on the side of the experienced U.S. American Colin Edwards a Yamaha YZR -M1 .. He reached regularly scoring points and ran his best season finish at last race of the year, the Grand Prix of Valencia one as he behind Casey Stoner (Honda), Ben Spies (Yamaha ) and Andrea Dovizioso (Honda) finished fourth and best privateer was. In the overall classification 2011 Crutchlow finished with 57 points 13th place.
Also in the 2012 season, the Briton remained with Tech 3 Yamaha, and together with Andrea Dovizioso, the driver pairing. Crutchlow finished the first ten races of the season each in the top eight. In the second half of the season his performances were inconstant. He has recorded five losses in eight races, but still drove the Grand Prix of Czech Republic in Brno and at the Grand Prix of Australia at Phillip Iceland each third.
In the 2013 season, Cal Crutchlow starts again at Tech 3 Yamaha. His team-mate this year, the Briton Bradley Smith, who rose from the Moto2 category. In the first nine races of the season Crutchlow was able to record four podium finishes, including second place at the French Grand Prix in Le Mans and Grand Prix of Germany at Sachsenring.
In August 2013 it was announced that Cal Crutchlow will start at the 2014 season for the Ducati factory team in the MotoGP class at the start.
Statistics
In the Supersport World Championship
In the Superbike World Championship
In the World Motorcycle Championship
(As of end of season 2013)