Britain’s Cal Crutchlow had another miserable MotoGP qualifying performance and will have to start tomorrow’s Sachsenring race from the fifth row after crashing out of qualifying one this afternoon.

But the works Ducati rider says that a combination of a cold front hard-compound tyre and having not enough weight towards the front of the bike contributed to his second turn 11 crash in as many years but adds that not he didn’t have enough of the soft tyres available.

“There’s a big difference between last year’s crash and this year’s. Last year we were on podium pace not qualifying one pace. Last year I was going 30km/h faster through the corner, today it was because we had no weight on the front of the bike,” said Crutchlow, speaking at the track.

“As usual, when you accelerate, there is not enough load in the front. We also had a cold front tyre, which is always a risk when you do two slow laps before because there are too many people on the line trying to follow to get a good lap.

“I slowed down a little too much and paid the price at turn 11. I had no problem through turn one or turn three so I obviously pushed, the lap time was going to be my best of the weekend and would have put me through to qualifying two but I didn’t finish it.

“I have had two good crashes there but I don’t think the corner should be altered. We should look at the tyre situation because the risk and problem today is that we didn’t select enough of the soft tyres.

There is a 32, a 33 and a 34 this weekend, the 32 is the soft so in the colder conditions we should have run that but we didn’t choose it because last year’s race tyre was the hard, so we have one soft left which we are keeping for the race. The tyre allocation could have solved a few problems for teams and riders today.”