Scott Redding and his Aruba Ducati had a more than passing interest in the now-infamous first-corner crash between Garrett Gerloff and Toprak Razgatlioglu that left one Yamaha WorldSBK rider in the dirt and further away from championship leader Rea.

But he saw some of it, however much he was concentrating on his own ride. “It was a bit of a blur,” said Redding. “I went into turn one. Garrett came up alongside me, and I thought, ‘Don’t brake too late.’ I broke a bit late and I thought, I ain’t getting in there.

“He broke later than me and I thought, ‘That ain’t happening. Not a chance’. Then it was like, something happened. I saw Garrett with one hand off in turn one. What the fuck are you doing? Just risking everything in the first corner. Are you here to win races or win the first corner? It’s just unnecessary.

“You’re putting everybody at risk. I don’t like that. It’s not like the last corner, OK, have a little bit. You can bash bars. I’m into that. But the first corner, you don’t even give yourself a chance. You end up costing yourself the race. Unfortunately, someone else is on the receiving end as well. I go into turn one and a lot of the time I think, please, no one fucking hit me from behind. Shouldn’t be racing with guys like that, but we’re here.”

Redding clearly feels passionately about this subject. “We’re meant to be world-class riders and it’s a hit or miss if we get through the first corner. It’s like Moto3. They’re big bikes to be doing that with. Just guys trying to make more, maybe having a bad weekend, trying to make a big step and it’s a gamble.

“As I said before, gambles don’t always work. That’s the situation. I just think guys need to just sometimes think a little bit. I’m not over-aggressive into turn one. If I feel like I’m in a dominant position, I’ll have a look. But I don’t like going from behind someone and trying to make a move, because there’s like 20 of us all going into the first corner. I don’t know who caused the drama or what actually really happened. I just saw two Yamahas go in, and I saw one Yamaha come out. I saw a hand in the air, and I had to focus on what I was doing.”

What needs to happen now to cool down what has become a febrile topic. Respect, it seems. “I think it’s a respect thing,” said Redding. “I really respect the people I race with. I know the dangers of this sport. I don’t know if they do or they don’t, because that’s not respectful to do that. You’re going in there with no emotion as a human being.

I know there’s a human on that bike. A lot of these guys, I don’t know if they think it’s an object or it’s a person. That’s why I like racing with Jonathan because he understands the same. So, he’s hard, but there’s respect. With Toprak, sometimes there’s not the respect. With Gerloff, there’s not the respect.

‘I’m not slating them as bad riders because they’re absolutely amazing riders, but the problem is is what the outcome can be and I think that’s a bit unfair. To try and calm them down, what you want to do, you penalise them, but they don’t learn.”

Redding gets on well with Gerloff off the bike, but feels there are still questions when on the bike, sometimes at least. And maybe not just him. “For Gerloff’s side, I really like the guy,” said Scott. “I get along with him well, but when he puts the helmet on I sometimes just think, ‘what are you doing?’ Risking a lot. He’s in his second year now.

“Last year, okay, first year, rookie. Second year, he’s done more this year than he did last year. Whether it was his fault or Toprak because I guess Toprak tried to go from outside – that’s what he normally does. I need to see, but if that’s the case, I already said earlier before – there’s going to be an incident if you try and out-brake someone from the outside. I don’t know.

“When we go to Most… It’s going to be hard. It’s nice. Get through the first corner, and let’s race. The race is in 21 laps. You get the points in 21 laps. You don’t get the points in turn one. Sure, you can gain something, but the gain for what you can lose is too much. Everyone is okay, I believe. I don’t know. It’s one of those things. It’s racing. It happens. I’m one for hard racing. I never shy away from a good battle. I like it, but I always try to keep it clean and respectful.”