Pata Honda's Leon Haslam says he has never been so happy to be 11th on a grid after a catalogue of problems caused by a crash and broken sensor which wasn't found until Superpole.

The Derbyshire rider lobbed it on his out-lap in second qualifying this morning and rode for the whole of second practice with the offending item but the team didn't work out the problem until Superpole one.

I’ve never been so happy to be P11 on a grid! On Friday, we had a lot of problems electronically which we couldn’t get sorted. This morning we went out and I didn’t even get one lap – I had a big crash and lost the whole session and that was the session when we needed to sort a few of the issues," said Haslam.

"We did the whole session in Free Practice 2 but a sensor had broken and we didn’t find out until after that session. So, going into Superpole 1 was my first go on a bike with sensors working so I was really happy.

"I think I went 1.6 seconds quicker than I did before, which is quite hard to do when you’re under pressure to do it in one lap. But the bike worked. I made a mistake in Superpole 2, which knocked me out by less than a tenth. So I’m really happy with what we’ve done – we’ve solved the issues that we had but it’s still going to be a tough race tomorrow."