Cal Crutchlow and ℱthe LCR Honda team spent last w🐭eek's Catalunya post-race test evaluating 'a lot of small items', including aerodynamic parts, plus two completely differently set-ups for the 2019 RCV.

One set-up was from the previous Italian MotoGP at Mugello, while the other was used in the Catalunya race. But the Engꦐlishma🦄n and his team were left 'none the wiser' since, "I can do the same lap time on both settings."

Crutchlow -🐻꧋ who fell while trying to pass Jack Miller for fourth in the closing stages of the Barcelona race - explained:

"My 'normal' bike, that I like best, is the one that uses the most en✅ergy because it is more difficult to change direction. Here at a circuit like this it is not that bad, or that hard, but at Mugello you’ll know about it.

"Again, you can change the bike [set-up] a🍃 big amount an✃d still be able to do the same lap-time and have a similar feeling. We have to continue to evaluate that, but there will be no quick fix on I think.

"Overall I feel as good as I did in the race and I’ve us🦹ed the same tyres, medium front and medium rear. I’m not interested in chasing lap times, just race pace."

While Marc Marquez has taken the latest Honda to a healthy world championship lead, Crutchlow has only one pod🦋ium on the machine to date, with Jorge Lorenzo yet to even bꦓreak the top ten.

Front-end feeling on corner entry is a common issue for both Crutchlow ꧂and Lorenzo. It may also be related to the heavy nature of the handling, which is costing the f♎actory trio during high-speed changes of direction.

"The bike is hard to ride, as it always ha💮s been. All you have to do is watch the TV. But they [Honda] know that and it doesn't mean there is a quick fix to it," Crutchlow said.

"It’s a combination of many things I think and the thing that can be improved 💫first is the turning. That will also help with the physicality, because we are forcing♕ the bike to turn and change direction, and if it turns [better] then it will fall into the corner a little bit more."

The #35💟 added: "We are obviously always trying to i🔴mprove [the front end] but at the moment I did not improve it with what we are testing.

"We’ll continue to give the information and I think with what Marc and Jorge are testing it mi🅷ght be improved, but I am on a different schedule to them. [We share testing between us] I think that is the correct way."

Crutchlow set the tenth fastest lap time at the test, which also saw team🎉-mate Takaaki Nakagami (who usually races the 2018 spec Honda) try a 2019 machine for the first time.

The Honda riders still have their one fairing design update for this seaso𓄧n available.