Following Friday's second practice session for the Austinꦐ MotoGP, Cal Crutchlow gave further details of the technical problem suffered in the morning 😼session.

The Englishman's latest electronic issue saw his Ducati cut-out on the pit straight, leavi💦ng Crutchlow fearing a high-speed impact from following riders.

"A🔯pparently the thing that broke on the bike - it's not a part by Ducati - is used in helicopters. 💝And mine just stopped dead. So you can imagine if this thing stopped in a helicopter, they'd be f**ked worse than I was!" he said.

"If someone was behind me ♋I w🐽as in trouble for sure."

Crutchlow continued: "I made the statement earlier that the🌱re are too many electronics on the bike. I mean on the Ducati, rather tꦡhan in the championship. There are too many systems. We need to refine it to make it a lot easier to manage, so things like this don't happen.

"For the wheelie we have a system that has multiple systems. One system will do and let's work with that. Because when things ha♍ppen you don't really know what it is. For example, whether something is caused by the traction control or anti-wheelie.

"The system is completely different to what I've been used to [Yamaha]. It's good in that if you have a sensor failure we have a system to back it up and probably another system to back that up. But I'd prefer it to 🥂be a bit more basic really."

Crutchlow was speaking after second practice for the Americas MotoGP, which he finished in ninth place, 1.491s from Honda's Marc Marquez but within 0.5s of t𝓡eam-mate Andrea Dovizioso, who was second on the timesheets.

Crutchlow, Dovizioso and fourth place Andrea Iannone (Pramac Ducati) all set the🎀ir best lap times on the soft rear tyre, not available to the factory class Honda and Yamaha riders.

"It was an interesting session. I didn't get the best out of the tyre at the end like some🔜 other guys. We went the wrong way with💟 the bike setting, but that is just inexperience of the Ducati.

"To turn tꦍhe bike is a disaster. That is for sure. But again the strong points are that it's fast in a straight-line and stops very well. Hopefully we'll make improvements for tomorrow."