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denly comes to the time that we'll
race in a few months, or towards
the end of the season.
What do you think? Will we
get some MotoGP racing in
this coming summer or fall?
I hope so. I really hope so. I
think the FIM, Dorna and IRTA,
the International Racing Teams
Association, are doing a great
job in regards to the situation, the
rules for the bikes at the moment
have been frozen, so develop-
ment can't carry on, which has
been completely fair for all the
teams and all the manufacturers.
And I think, and as I said, Dorna
is doing a great job with keeping
us up to date with what's going
on; they've been keeping us up to
date with the local governments
and other situations. I do think
we'll get some racing in towards
the end of the season. I really
hope we can, and I hope we can
get to racing that the fans can
see, as well, but we have to make
sure that it is safe to do so. If we
have 200,000 people come out
to an event, everyone needs to
be safe before we think about
opening up the doors. We race
and we're in the entertainment
business, and there is nothing
we like more than to race and to
entertain the crowd at the circuits.
Hopefully, we can get the racing
underway, and once we do, the
fans can come as well.
While here and locked
down in SoCal, have you
been in close communica-
tion with Honda and the LCR
Castrol Honda race team?
Yes, I keep in close contact
with my team and with my manu-
facturer and HRC, and I'm con-
stantly speaking to all the mem-
Recently, Crutchlow
gave Great Britain
its first MotoGP win
since Barry Sheene.
"THERE IS NO SET PLAN TO GO BACK TO
RACING, SO YOU JUST HAVE TO MAINTAIN.
WE JUST HAVE TO TAKE IT AS IT COMES."
