On average, a Honda rider was almost twice as likely🃏 to fall compared with a Yamaha rider during the 2017 MotoGP season.

But Aprilia riders suffered almost thr🍰ee times the accident average of those at Yamaha.

Dorna records each aꦛccident dur💯ing a grand prix weekend, but because the number of full-time riders at each manufacturer varies from two to eight, an average is needed:

Aprilia: 50 falls during the season / 2 full-time bikes = 25.0 (falls per bike average)

Honda: 84 falls / 5 bikes = 16.8

Suzuki: 25 falls / 2 bikes = 12.5

Ducati: 97 falls / 8 bikes = 12.1

KTM: 18 falls / 2 bikes = 9.0

Yamaha: 35 falls / 4 bikes = 8.8

Falls by wild-card riders were not included, since theyꦐ were on machines that did not do the full season.

Accidents by replacement rider🔥s were includ💯ed above. For example, falls for Jonas Folger and his replacements Kohta Nozane, Broc Parkes and Michael van der Mark were all totalled together as one full-time bike.

However, the list does not take into account cases where a rider missed an event due t�ꦓ�o injury and was not replaced; Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) at Misano and Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia) at Sepang.

The figures suggest Aprilia riders Aleix Espargaro (19) and ro💖okie Sam Lowes (31) pushed the limit most this season - or had the least feel for the limit from their bikes.

Honda was next up, with 51 of their 84 falls being accounted foಞr by world champio𝄹n Marc Marquez (27) and Cal Crutchlow (24).

"Historically, we [Honda riders] are crashing more than the other ma♛nufacturers," said Crutchlow.

"I don't🐽 think it's down to the riders necessarily, because three years ago Dani cr🦹ashed [three times] all year and now he's crashed a lot more [nine times].

"It's because we ar🐓e pu🔴shing so hard, but Marc won the title so you can't complain too much."

Suzuki and Ducati came outꦑ evenly matched with a 12 falls-per-rider average, with KTM (9.0) and Yamaha (8.8) the lowest.

Yamaha's averag🌠e is all the more impressive given there were two rookies at the Tech 3 team, plus three last-minute replacements ✨for Folger.

'Xaus used a trampoline'

Returning to the subject of Marquez's 27 f𒁃alls - ten higher than the Spaniard had suffered in any previous MotoGP season - Crutchlow was asked if any kind of preparation can be done to limit injuries, given how the Spaniard walked away from his spills:

"No, I don’t think so. But Ruben Xaus used to crash a lot and I know he used to put h🧸is leathers, helmet and boots on and have a trampoline built into the floor, at floor le🌟vel, in his house. He used to jump off it and then roll into different scenarios.

"I have to🎃 say, in his whole career, I think the only time I saw him get injured was when he b🍷roke his leg on the BMW at Brno.

"Marc, as we know, doesn’t get injured that much. And all he does all day is stretch. I've crashed probably the same amoun🐈t as Marc and I've never stretched for a second of my life!

"So I don't know. But I'm scared to do it, because - to𝓡uch wood - I've not been t🎉oo bad injury-wise in terms of ligaments. Bones are different, because if you hit a bone there's not much you can do.

"I'm not going to start suddenly wಞrapping my legs around my head like he does, trying to do stuff that should be on an internet channel! But it could work."