Monster Yamaha's Cal Crutchlow had two trips into the gravel trap in the morning's third MotoGP free practice session at Silverstone, crashing early on at Maggotts and then again after losing the front with only a minute left to run.
The Briton's first crash was odd as he ended up on the grass on the indside of the fast left/right combination in a spill that former MCE British Superbike Champion Tommy Hill, who was standing next to bikesportnews.com, couldn't explain.
The second off saw Crutchlow spat over the highside of his satellite YZR-M1 on the brakes into Vale as he was building for a lap to take him further inside the top ten and an assured place in qualifying two. He ended the session in eighth place.
Marc Marquez topped the timesheet with a 2'02.485, just ahead of Jorge Lorenzo with Stefan Bradl finding his form to go third quickets on a 2'02.673. Alvaro Bautista was fourth with a 2'02.773 and Andrea Dovizioso putting the soft Bridgestone to good use in fifth.
Valentino Rossi ended in sixth and eight-tenths off the pace, just ahead of Nicky Hayden and Crutchlow. Aleix Espargaro was the leading CRT man in ninth while Dani Pedrosa only scraped into qualifying two with a lap that is a second slower than hi rookie Repsol Honda team-mate. Bradley Smith will have go through qualifying one as he finished in 11th.
Paul Bird's PBM team have a lot of work to do as Michael Laverty slipped off early in the session while Yonny Hernandez threw his ART bike at the scenery twice.