Aspar’s Eugene Laverty started off his MotoGP race weekend at Silverstone in a positive fashion, and in the dry was putting down impressive times in the free practice sessions, but all that changed when the rain started to fall on Sunday and grip became an issue for the rider, who labelled his race as a ‘disaster’.

He found his machine difficult to ride, and coming into the event he was hoping to take the leading open class accolade. The Monaco-based resident felt like he was going to crash in the wet in both warm up and the race, but he managed to stay on until he crossed the finishing line in seventeenth.

His team-mate, Nicky Hayden appeared to have had more grip than Laverty, and the former World Superbike racer is a little perplexed as to why the American was able to get inside the points and finish twelfth, whereas he spent the majority of the race trying not to  fall off.

Laverty never rode so hard in the wet as he did yesterday and can’t help feeling disappointed after a strong start to the weekend, which ultimately ended with him finishing just outside the points, after experiencing a ‘terrible’ feeling with his bike.

“[The bike] was terrible, I never rode so hard in wet conditions before. I shouldn’t have been in that position, the bike was so nervous on the exit and I couldn’t accelerate like the other guys and it was a disaster, and I really don’t know what to say,” said Laverty, speaking to bikesportnews.com.

“We couldn’t get grip unless I accelerated hard, but it was impossible compared with Baz. In the dry we were there and the bike was capable of winning the open class in the dry. In the wet I didn’t push the bike to the limit in the morning because I felt unsafe and I felt that I was going to crash.

“This time I almost crashed so many times and I managed to stay on the bike as that was all that the bike was capable of. I don’t think that there was anyone who could have rode the bike faster today. I didn’t understand how my team-mate Nicky had grip and I didn’t.”