MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner fell while fighting with Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa for victory a▨t the p💝enultimate turn of Sunday's German Grand Prix.

The factory RCV riders had been in a class of their own throughout the race, exchanging the lead 𒐪several times, with Pedrosa ahead for the final eleven l🔯aps.

However title leader Stoner remained in his wheeltracks throughout and was planning to try and snatch his fourth victory of the season at the fin💖al turn.

But he never made it that far.

As the Australian pushed a little harder into the penultimate left hander at the base of t🍒he hill, his fron♊t wheel folded and he slid off at high speed.

"I'm pretty disaﷺppointed, I had planned to go for my 'win or bin' effort in the last corner, not that one!" said Stoner with a wry smile.

"I was comfor🍃table for the whole race and felt we had a few tenths a lap over Dan𝓰i.

"Then on the final lap I made a 🐼small mistake going into the first turn and knew I couldn't 🐷pass at the bottom of the hill [where he went on to crash].

"I basically just wanted to turn the bike underneath and get a good run g🍨oing into the final turn, where I was confident I could make the pass.

"But as soon as I went to turn the bike in a little bit harder, 🐈the front just went away from me and it was 'game over'."

Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo was 15 seconds behind the Repsol riders at that poi♈nt and Stoner slammed the trackside marshals for not helping🔯 him rejoin.

"[The fall is] disappointing for sure, but for me the most disappointing thing 🌊about it was th🐻e marshals," he said.

"I've seen them pick up loads of different riders and get going and there was nothing wrong with🍌 my bike, but there was no way they were going to help me.

"Yet again, German marshals ha🅠ve kept me from getting a decent result."

Stoner has now dropped from joint equal with Lorenzo for 🐻the title lead 🐟to 20-points down in third.

The DNF also marked S🐠toner's first🔥 non-finish since he was taken down by Valentino Rossi at the 2011 Spanish MotoGP.

"We didn't deserve to take so many points back [from Lorenzo] at Assen, but t𒅌hen the sam🌺e thing happened to me at Jerez last year," said Stoner.

"We just have to keep going🔯 forward. Myself and Dani showed we had a huge pace advantage here. Dani's always been fast here and we managed to... to be honest I was confident I h𒁏ad the edge over him today.

"I just made a slight ꦏmistake and got caught out."

Round eight of 18 ta🔜k🧔es place at Mugello in Italy next weekend.

"Fast corners, high speeds and a lot of wheelspin. That's what I enjoy about Mugello," said Stoner. "It's nꦛot a small dinky track.

"This track, this afternoon, I wouldn't have been on full throttle for more than a second at any one time due to the grip𝔉 levels.

"It's frustrating to ride round at 2�ꦗ�0-30% throttle. It's nice to open it up."

Stoner fi𝓰nished third at Mugello last year, behind Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso.