Go&Fun Honda’s Scott Redding had to race the entire Misano MotoGP with no rear brake after a bolt came loose and fluid was being deposited all over the rear tyre.

Redding ran off at turn seven on lap three and had to fight his way back through to try and regain top Production Honda spot but a fuel pressure problem, on top of his existing woes, meant he just didn’t manage it.

“It’s one of those weekends you get every now and then, you just have to take it with a pinch of salt. I redeemed myself from the crashes by being top Honda in qualifying and I thought if I could do that in the race it would keep my motivation up,” said Redding, speaking at Misano.

“We struggled a bit in warm-up and couldn’t get a rhythm. We made some big changes for the race with more weight on the front which felt good. On lap three I was braking for turn three, the bike was all crossed up, left, right, and I wondered what was going on.

“I ran wide and Abraham, De Angelis, Camier, Laverty came by and then I had some work to do. Then I was braking into turn seven and it was the same shit. When I was going around corners and looking for rear brake, there was nothing there, no drag nothing.

“There was a problem as all the fluid was going onto the back tyre and in the rim. I had no rear brake, which is a big problem on these bikes as you use it for wheelie control, to stop the rear lifting, to slide, and I had none of those advantages.

“I didn’t give up, reeled in the people that had passed. I got a rhythm and got back to Abraham and Aoyama. I lost power on the last three laps with a fuel pressure problem. I didn’t give up and still did a good job.

“Yesterday after the crash, they changed the whole system and apparently one of the bolts was tight but not Loctited so the heat made it expand and it came out so we lost the fluid. The problem with the fuel pressure was one of those things.”