Movistar Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi says Bridgestone’s hard compound wet tyres were at fault for the MotoGP free practice crash-fest at Misano today with the accident tally going into double figures and The Doctor himself going down this morning.

Rossi crashed on the brakes with zero degress of lean angle and it was an accident replicated throughout the field. Andrea Iannone and Pol Espargaro had the same crash in turn one within second of each other, and Rossi said it is down to the tyres.

Bridgestone made the soft-compounds available this afternoon and not only did laptimes come down signifcantly, there were less crashes.

“Today was difficult for everybody, especially this morning. I crash, we have a lot of crashes and the main reasons are two. The first is the surface of the track does not provide enough grip, especially in the wet and the temperature was very low,” said The Doctor.

“Also Bridgestone bring hard wet tyres and this is what caused the main problem, especially in braking, you have a lot of crashes before the corner because the front tyre was too hard.

“For me the crashes happen mainly because we have the hard front. Temperature of the ground that is less than 20 degrees, the tyre doesn’t work. I crash when I brake from straight.”