Cal Crutchlow's pre-seaso🎉n MotoGP testing came to a painful end when he was 'torpedoed in the nuts' by his own LCR Honda after falling on the final night in Qatar.

The Englishman had made a late charge up the timeshe🅰ets to fifth, which at the time made him the only RC213V rider in the top ten, then this happened:

"[The bike] went up about six foot in the air and just came st🌠raight down on my bol❀locks, the rear wheel. I had to have ultrasound on my balls!

"It's so funny, here [pointing] is killing me. It never even hit༒ here, and it's absolutely killing me. They say that when 𒆙the baby's in the stomach, until six or seven months, your balls are up here, and then they drop down.

"So that's why it's hurting. It's f**king killing me. The bike tor⛎pedoed me in the nuts."

Turning to the reason for the acciꦬdent, on a night when numerous riders fell, Crutchlow explained:

"[I was] middle of the corner. I went round the corner 0.1kph faster. And I opened the throttle later🌃. You would think I opened it earlier, because I just lost the front with the throttle open. But I had less throttle and 0.1kph faster.

"Threওe laps before that, I'd been 3kph faster, and there was nothing wrong with that lap. So you just don't know. Literally, you are sometimes even slower than you were on the lap before, and you crash.

"It's one of those things where suddenly it can close [the front]. We've seen it with a lot of people's crashes when they've had no f꧅ront feeling, that's what it's like. But it's not necessarily the Honda, it's just what's been happening for a lot of us.

"So it's more of a tyre thing, to be honest. I was on a long run, that wasn't intended to be a long run, but I just left the pit lane and continued to go. But I already had ten laps ꦆon the tyres when I left thꦫe pit lane. So then it was just under race distance when I crashed, and the lap time was OK, I was faster again on the lap that I crashed.

"I'm looking fo🐼rward to t♏he new front tyre coming, because this one's too soft for us, and the other one, the other one's not too hard for us, it's just that you can't use it with these temperatures or with the dew on the track. So we need the one in the middle, which they are bringing.

"Aoyama did his long run on it, and it w🌊as apparently better. But not all the riders had it, only the test rider had it."

Crutchlow went on to finish the nigh𝔍t in seventh place, 0.782s from Yamaha pace setter Jorge Lorenzo but only 0.190s from the fastest Honda of Marc Marquez, who made late progress to fourth place.

"From where we were yesterday, we seem to have improved a little bit. But it's tough and di💧fficult, from t🦹he point of view that it's still tough for all the Honda riders. It's not coming easy at all.

"We've gained half a second because we're pushing harder. We haven't sudd༺enly just grabbed something. But🗹 we've confirmed a few things with Honda, and we'll now start to work.

"The problem for us at the mome༒nt is that the bike is very physical to ride, same as last year. Maybe even worse than last year, when we wanted it to be easꦚier.

"We fight a lot with the bike still. We kn🐟ow Qatar is special and for Honda over the years it's not been the greatest. So maybe at some other circuits it might be a little bit better."

The Qatar ꧟season-opener will be held🌸 at Losail from March 17-20.