Crutchlow wants "out of control" Sachsenring Turn 11 changed

Turn 11, a fast right-hander after seven consecutive left corners at the repaved German track, was the scene of three crashes during Friday's two practice sessions.

First, Andrea Iannone slid off his Suzuki, the bike rolling several times before landing upside down, then satellite Ducati riders Scott Redding and Alvaro Bautista fell in quick succession.

Crutchlow reckons Redding did not do anything wrong when he crashed at the "tricky" corner.

"Honestly, I have to say Scott Redding did absolutely nothing wrong; I have no idea why he crashed. The tyre he used had done three or four laps before," said the Briton. "There, it is so tricky."

"You can do absolutely nothing wrong, you can do everything right and still be on the floor."

The corner was also subject to criticism in 2016, when Aleix Espargaro complained about it following several crashes in practice.

Backing up that complaint, Crutchlow says the number of crashes at the turn should justify changing it.

"Don't get me wrong, I like fast corners I like stuff that maybe is a little bit on the edge, but to me, just scrap it," added Crutchlow. "It is getting way too out of control. You do your whole race weekend thinking 'f**k, will you make it there or not.'

"At the end of the day, you have to look how many crashes there are over a year and then you have to look at today, bikes flying through the air, marshals not even hearing them.

"Just need to make it tighter and slower. I am not saying put a chicane in, but you could go toward the gravel trap and turn right and then left and go down the hill.

"The problem is then, the barrier; if you make a left corner the barrier is on the right side and they can't move that barrier. It is a difficult one."

Factory Honda rider Marc Marquez concurred that Turn 11, which has had its banking altered slightly for this year, was an issue, but conceded nothing could be done short of changing the track layout.

"It is true that it is a very fast corner, and honestly this morning I was losing there one tenth because in FP1 you always don't want to take a risk," said Marquez when asked about the corner.

"But you know that you are around 220 [km/h] there and a crash is always crap. But it is so difficult to slow down the corner, because if you slow [it] down then the banking will be there more.

"You slow down the corner, the banking will be more, still it will be a fast corner. So to slow [it] down you need to change all the layout."

Additional reporting by Oriol Puigdemont