Britain’s Cal Crutchlow is not expecting any huge development leaps with the works Ducati MotoGP bike this season and has said will not change his riding style to suit this year’s Desmosedici.

The Isle of Man resident reckons that if he adjusts the way he rides this season, and the bike changes out of sight for next year, then he will either have to go back or change it again for 2015.

Crutchlow appears frustrated with the lack of progress with the Bologna bike and says he is giving the same information to his crew now that he was giving at Valencia in November, with only a few improvements.

“There is only so much information you can give and only so many times you can give the same information. I gave it when I first rode the bike in November and the bike is a little better but fundamentally it has the same problems,” said Crutchlow, speaking at Catalunya.

“We need to come up with something but it’s not going to happen before the end of the year, we know that already, so there’s no point in asking.

“I stay motivated every weekend but it’s difficult knowing you can’t compete, because we can’t. This bike, over one lap, I can’t compete with the other guys, nowhere near and as soon as we lose the grip I don’t have the feel Dovi does because we ride in a different way.

“I’m not going to change my style to suit the bike for one year. If I do that, and suddenly it is completely different for next year then you have to change back again. The only thing that works with this bike is in straightline braking, where I am weak. I don’t have the confidence to enter like the others as I ride in a different way.

“It’s not my task to fix the bike, it’s my job to ride the bike and give the information. They are still too far away from the factory bikes. Andrea does well to compete with the likes of Pol, so we should be able to beat them but we’re not near that. We will see what they bring and when they bring it.”