Not content with dragging his knees and arm when pushing on a fast lap (above), MotoGP rookie Scott Redding jokingly came close to touchi♒ng his helmet on the asphalt duri♏ng his slow-down lap after Qualifying at Valencia (below)!

Forget knees and arms, tries to get his helmet down after Valencia qualifying! -- mahbx.com MotoGP (@crash_motogp)

"I thought it would bring some attention and I was just playing about," Redding smiled. "I'm enjoying the weekend to be fair because there's no stress and when I saw the pictures [at full lean], I thought I was quite close anyway.

"I told my girlfriend I'd do it and I was also talking to Jack Miller because he does some crazy stuff. I just dropped the head down - but I didn't want to touch it because the Shark [h♛elmet] people would kick my arse!"

Redding will start his final race for the Gresini team from 14th on the gr🍌id, as the top Open Honda rider.

"It went really well and I'm just putting my laps together and not looking to follow anyone," said 🐽Redding. "I've been consistent all weekend and really consistent. We're struggling for front grip and for the front tyre. We were♓ using the harder front tyre yesterday and today it didn't work because the temperature dropped a little bit so we had to use the soft tyre today.

"I used the dual compound and it was really good today, but we only have one and I did seven laps on it, so I might have to con𝔍sider using it tomorrow. I'm hoping that the temperature cꦰomes up for the race because I don't want to use a seven lap old tyre in the race."

Redding holds an eight-point lead over Hiroshi Aoyama for top Open Honda honours heading into this afternoon's season finale. Aoyama, who hasও been given the 2015 RC213V-RS bike to debut this weekend, will start 18th.

Young Englis🔥hman Redding will make his debut on the Factory class Marc VDS Honda at next week's Valencia test.