After finishing a lowly 20^th in Sunday’s MotoGP outing 🎃in Austria, Scott Redding has provided an astonishingly frank take on a dismal showing, describing Sunday’s race as “heartbreaking” and saying the weekend was “hell from꧑ the beginning.”

The Englishman was highly critical of Aprilia, listing a number of mechanical issues he encountered throughout free practice, qualifying and on race day. “In a team of this ꩲlevel it should not be happening,” he said on Sunday afternoon. “And it is happening.”

Having placed a competitive second in a soaking w🅘et FP2 session, Redding said the showing came as a timely reminder of his talents, and only served to highlight the RS-GP’s deficiencies in the dry. ♌“You cannot make a piece of shit, shine,” was the takeaway line from an impassioned debrief. “And that's what I'm trying to do.”

Redding was not only unable to explain why he finished well outside the points. The reason he took the chequered flag 21 seconds back of team-🉐mate Aleix Espargaro, when he had provided the Catalan with competition in recent outings, was also something of a myster🍸y.

“The [wet] conditions bring the machines closer,” said Redding. “I can see my potential. I can be fast. And it just reminded me of how good I can actually be. I just accepted it this year, I've never had a wet session. But then 😼this weekend was like, 'yeah, well you can mix with the best guys in the world when the level comes a bit 🍨lower with the machinery'. Then it dries again and you're out in the field again.

“It's been hard. It's been a hard weekend and to be honest to have a race like that is heart-breaking because I try all the time and it doesn't get easier. Why can I go to Assen and battle with my team-mate, in Brno I can battle with my team-mate - yes I crashed - then I come here and I can🍰't even fucking be in the same situation.

“Every time I go on the bike, every fucking day is different. There's always a problem with somethin🎃g. Every weekend there is a problem. And I've tried to accept it and I've tried to just deal with it, but honestly it's a bit of disaster at the moment. And I'm not happy. This weekend was a reality check for me. Riding around there, it hurts.

“So now I have to go to Silverstone, the next race. I need to smile in front of everyone and say I'm going to do a good performance and it's all bullshit. Because you can't do anything. You canno♊t make a piece of shit, shine. And that's what I'm trying to do.

“I know it sounds harsh and I shouldn't say it, but that's what it is. You're trying to make something average be better. I just hope when we go testing next week at Misano, that we can find somethinඣg, we have a new engine… what is it going to bring?

“It's something that I've asked for five races ago, if not more. I hope that it's better. I do hope. But if it continues like this I donꦛ’t know what mindset I'm going to be in because this is not what I go racing fo🍸r. I don't do it.”

It didn’t end there. Asked whether these repeated mechanical issues had been ongoing for some time, and he went ဣagain, describing the current situation as “a bit of a joke."

“The guys are trying but it's just a bit of a joke. There are so many things that I'm just not even allowed to say, not against me, but in 🔯a te꧒am of this level should not be happening. And it's happening. And I accept it.

“But I come here. I can be fast here and I've made good results in the past, I likꦫe the track, it suits my style. I thought I'd come here and have a good chance of making a good enough result for us. And it was hell from the beginning.

“And then we find out yesterday night there was a problem with the sensor, this and this andไ this. The suspension is readin🅘g different to what it's doing. Fucking hell. This is MotoGP, a full factory team. Why is this happening?

“I've had problems with the electronics all the weekend, cannot get it to work. So what hope do I have to make a result here? I can't. And that's the thing that is making ꧟it hard at the mome🌄nt.”

Not even the possibi൩lity of testing at Misano next weekend offered up optimisꦆm. Aprilia’s management of the supposed shakedown was also “a fucking joke,” in the 25-year old’s eyes, as the factory had originally intended to spend three days on the Adriatic coast. Now he and Espargaro are only booked in for one.

”To be honest even that's a fucking joke. We were supposed to do three days. Then it was two days. Then something was not organised enough and now we have one day. Things like that you know. We need that test time, we need those things. Bu𒁃t it's a jokeꦬ.

“So the important thing, we have the engine, OK. Something big to try. We have one day, we can focus on that and I hope that it brings something. Th🎀at's all I do. Just⛦ hope.”

Does he feel clear-the-air talks with Aprilia mana♒gement and technicians could be of benefit before th🔯e all-important home race at Silverstone in two week’s time?

“I've tried,” he said. “I've tried already from round one. And I was in a bad place earlier this year and I said to everyone that I'm not happy, I need to move on forget it and l🍸et it be.💙 And I was doing that, but then when you realise how good you can be and you can't do it again and it's holding you back and it's holding you back. That's what's so frustrating.

“I had the same in qualifying yesterday. Go in FP4 with the medium, I go in the qualifying with the soft and I go slower. And I have problems that I haven't had all weekend. I go in the race and I have problems again I haven't had all weekend. Wh꧒y? Is the bike that bad that it changed from three degrees. I don't know. But you can never find the rhythm.

“I'm honestly better ♛off doing FP1, warm-up and the race. The rest of it just forget it and I would do the same result. Because it doesn’t matter what you do.

“I had a problem with the suspension so it was too soft. 'Cannot stop the bike, cannot stop the bike', it was all I complained about. Oh yeah, it 🍌was the problem. Okay, we change the fork spring. Okay, I can stop, and the lap time is the same. Because you run into another problem.

“Because all you are doing is covering. You're not fixing something and moving on. I had not a tyre problem, got to Sachsenring and now tyre wear is really high. ꧂Where did that come from? OK, at the Sachsenring we can expect it. Brno we struggled, here we struggled. Seven laps… it's frustrating because you want to do it, you work to do it and you can't do it.”