“It’s such a shame to get this result at my home race, for me, the team and for the fans. It’s certainly been a tough season and this is just the way things seem to be going – another first lap incident.

I don’t want to say too much about that because it isn’t going to make things any different so we’ll leave the incident at that. Luckily I didn’t get hurt because I took big impact on my leg.

The main thing is that it damaged my brake cable and as soon as I got going after three laps my brakes just went softer and softer and the adjuster was broken which meant I couldn’t take any of the slack out of it.

I carried on riding in case there was a red flag, but once I went a lap down I wasn’t going to get in the leaders’ way with the brakes going off, I’m not going to do that to anybody, so I brought it in the pits.

It’s a shame for all the fans because the support here was unreal and I would at least have enjoyed getting in the race and having a battle. We had some good momentum going with a couple of podiums in a row, but now we’ve got a few weeks off and we definitely need to re-evaluate a few things and come back fighting.”