Cal Crutchlow was handed the new Honda swingarm during day two of the French MotoGP, which saw the CWM LCR rider claim fourth place on Sunday's grid. Crutchlow joined Repsol Honda's reigning world champion Marc Marquez in trying the swingarm at the recent Jerez test. The Spaniard then used the new design from the start of the Le Mans weekend, with Crutchlow handed one of the swingarms from FP3. “I'm the only rider to test [the new and old swing-arms] back-to-back so far this weekend, and the difference is minimal here. But in Jerez it was a lot,” Crutchlow said. “But yes, we have the new swingarm. Yes it's good, but it doesn't make a massive difference here. The corners are not the...
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