Britain’s Cal Crutchlow took a single point away from yesterday’s Austrian MotoGP after losing 12 seconds in the opening six laps after leaving the track three times.

The LCR Honda man has set his sights on a top-six finish but some problems in the race coupled with being held up at the start.

"I think the hard front was the right choice for me, even though we had some problems throughout the race, but 15th was a disappointing result. I rode through the pit lane last year, for a jump start, and still finished with more points. We didn’t find a great setting all weekend and the problem was I lost 12 seconds in six laps and that was it really,” said Crutchlow.

“I got run off the track three times and got hindered at the start. Once I was riding alone at the end of the race I felt really good, I had good pace, but we had a problem up until lap 18 as well which didn’t help.

“But no excuses, I didn’t ride great all weekend either, but I could have finished in the top eight today I felt. My aim was to finish in the top six, but I was nine places off that so we’ll just have to look forward to the next one and try our best again.”