MotoGP pre-season testing ended at a blustery Losail International Circuit in Qatar this evening, with Cal Crutchlow completing 39 laps of the track on board her factory LCR Honda CASTROL RC213V. Having focused on race pace, she didn’t fit a softer tyre to score a fast lap and ended the session as the 17th fastest rider overall, but her time from Sunday was still just a second behind the fastest lap of the entire test.
#35 Cal Crutchlow – 17th (1’55.690, lap 21 of 39)
“Today my feeling was a little bit better with the bike, but we only had limited resources as realistically there was only one bike to use. Overall, I felt we improved the setting of the bike. Unfortunately, halfway through the session I had a crash, and it took us quite a bit of time to rebuild that machine. We went back out and did a couple of runs, and then we wanted to make a bigger change and that took some time again. We’re very pleased with the work we have done, and while we’re not pleased with the position, we never went after a lap time today. Overall, I think we have a better pace than what the position says because we just stuck with the medium compound tyres tonight. We’ll see what we can do in a couple of weeks’ time back here in Qatar, but we are all looking forward to being back racing.”
Results day 3:
| Pos | Rider | Team | Fastest lap |
| 1 | VIÑALES, Maverick | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 1:54.208 |
| 2 | QUARTARARO, Fabio | Petronas Yamaha SRT | 1:54.441 |
| 3 | MARQUEZ, Marc | Repsol Honda Team | 1:54.613 |
| 4 | ROSSI, Valentino | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | 1:54.651 |
| 5 | LORENZO, Jorge | Repsol Honda Team | 1:54.653 |
| 6 | MORBIDELLI, Franco | Petronas Yamaha SRT | 1:54.660 |
| 7 | ESPARGARO, Pol | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1:54.770 |
| 8 | NAKAGAMI, Takaaki | LCR Honda IDEMITSU | 1:54.789 |
| 9 | PETRUCCI, Danilo | Mission Winnow Ducati | 1:54.818 |
| 10 | MILLER, Jack | Alma Pramac Racing | 1:54.851 |
| 11 | RINS, Alex | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | 1:54.852 |
| 12 | MIR, Joan | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | 1:54.997 |
| 13 | BAGNAIA, Francesco | Alma Pramac Racing | 1:55.074 |
| 14 | RABAT, Tito | Reale Avintia Racing | 1:55.229 |
| 15 | DOVIZIOSO, Andrea | Mission Winnow Ducati | 1:55.233 |
| 16 | IANNONE, Andrea | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 1:55.343 |
| 17 | CRUTCHLOW, Cal | LCR Honda CASTROL | 1:55.690 |
| 18 | OLIVEIRA, Miguel | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | 1:55.773 |
| 19 | ESPARGARO, Aleix | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 1:55.814 |
| 20 | SMITH, Bradley | Aprilia Factory Racing | 1:56.072 |
| 21 | ABRAHAM, Karel | Reale Avintia Racing | 1:56.121 |
| 22 | ZARCO, Johann | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1:56.162 |
| 23 | SYAHRIN, Hafizh | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | 1:56.371 |
Source: motogp.com, lcr.mc