Yamaha’s Cal Crutchlow was his usual vocal and straight-talking self on Sunday evening after another Spielberg race marred by a red flag and track limits controversy.

Warning’s were issued 13-times during the 27-lap StyrianGP as riders ventured onto the green, by varying margins, with five long lap penalties - taken by Maverick Viñales, Enea Bastianini, Pol Espargaro and Iker Lecuona with Pecco Bagnaia given a 3-second post-race demotion for failure to comply - the result of multiple misdemeanours.

Discussing the situation from the Austrian paddock Crutchlow failed to hold back on his dislike of the 4.3km layout.

“It happens at a lot of tracks but it happens at this track because it’s a shit track and it’s too difficult not to go on the green,” the Brit said, bluntly.

“How many corners are there with green on the outside of it? When you are in a group, when you are taking the slipstream, when the bike is shaking in the middle of the corner, you’re going to go on them but what I don’t agree with is. Well, first of all I got the track limits warning, and I never had the message on my dash. You’re supposed to have a light, I had the light but I had the light not when I got the track limits warning. I checked the time of the track limits warning to the time I got the light and they were 15-minutes apart so definitely wasn’t that. When I had the light, I didn’t have the message so I didn’t know.

“I probably did have the track limits because, honestly, I blew turn one once and then out of turn eight I hit it once but the other time I don’t know when I hit it, but I could have,” he admitted before continuing.

“The other thing that I believe is, these sensors that they now have. Yes, in one way they’re better, because the eyesight of the stewards sometimes is not very good either - they’re not the youngest people, so I think it’s quite difficult for them to see when they’re looking at the video. But if your wheel is half over the green, or if you’re like, on the ridge - because there’s a drop normally to the green, you have the red and white and then there’s a little couple of inch drop onto the green. If your wheel is going along this ridge, but not actually dropped onto the green, I think the sensor goes off. I don’t agree with that because the wheel is not on the green, it’s still on the thing, but it hovers above. Of course, the red and white curve is also going to move, if you’re running a motorcycle over it, so then it sets the sensor off.

“I’m looking in general at the situation. It’s always hard to police. I’m against them in one way, but I think it’s a hard job to have, in another way. But do you gain an advantage? I don’t think so. If somebody flies off the track, comes round and they gain one-second, then I agree, they’ve gained an advantage but half the time when you do touch the green you lose time because the bike spins when it goes over this little lip.

“I don’t agree with dropping back one position on the last lap if they’ve touched the green, like we’ve seen in other races, I think this is not good,” he added.