Cal Crutchlow was left enraged after having his Argentine race wrecked after having to serve a ride through penalty having been judged to have jumped the start by MotoGP stewards.

The stewards, led by two-time 500cc World Champion Freddie Spencer, handed out a drive through penalty to the Brit after deeming the LCR Honda rider to have jumped the start.

Television replays showed that any jump start was minuscule at best, but after paying the stewards a visit immediately after the race, Crutchlow was left bemused at the decision.

“There wasn’t a jump start,” said an enraged Crutchlow, after the race.

“But Freddie Spencer seems to think otherwise. But he raced in the 1980’s when they used to jump the start all the time so I don’t know what his problem is.

“I was behind the line. I didn’t jump the start. They say that I am rolling but on all of our images and even on their images I’m not rolling, that’s for sure.”

Despite having pace to challenge for the podium, the penalty left Crutchlow down the field, finishing in thirteenth position.

“When you’re on the grid and you’re balancing on one foot, it’s not like I’ve pushed the bike forwards or anything like that. I don’t change my mind. I accept my penalty, I had to do the ride through and I accepted it and I went though and I felt that we did a good race.

“After the race I was angry with them, because I knew I didn’t jump the start, but at the end of the day, I have to accept the decision. The rules and the rules and this is it.

“My opinion of Freddie as Race Director has gone down a lot. I thought him coming in and making some better decisions on other things, on the contact of racing etc, but it seems he doesn’t.

“This is not me disrespecting him at all, because what he’s done in his career is fantastic. I just don’t agree with the penalty he imposed on me. I also wonder if he would’ve given the same penalty to Marc or Valentino or Dovi if they moved that much that I did on the roll of my foot.”