Leading Three MotoGP Riders

San Carlo Gresini rider Alvaro Bautista will start the German MotoGP from the back of the grid following his collision with Jorge Lorenzo at the start of the Dutch TT at Assen.

Following investigations by the track officials Bautista was penalised for causing the accident which cost Lorenzo his championship lead on Saturday.

Lorenzo said: "Today was a complete disaster, Alvaro's move was crazy. If the riders are not penalised properly then they will continue to do crazy things like today."

I was actually quite lucky to avoid being collected by Alvaro and Jorge but I still had to run off track and I was last

Lorenzo had started the Netherlands Grand Prix with a 25-point lead overover riegning champion Casey Stoner, but when Bautista took his reckless move from the start Lorenzo was knocked off his bike at the first turn by the resulting collision.

Casey Stoner went on to win the race to draw level with Lorenzo in the championship standings.

Lorenzo added: "I met Bautista after the incident, he apologised and we shook hands but in my opinion this is not enough.

Bautista - who started from pole position at Silverstone earlier this month - gave Lorenzo no chance of avoiding him as he lunged up the inside of turn one, and also cost British rider Cal Crutchlow a potential podium finish.

Another rider effected by the incident was Brit Cal Crutchlow who was forced to run wide off the track to avoid the crash loosing five positions in the process, tweeted   "Not happy at all with that and glad Jorge is ok after the bandit Bautista took us all out. We all make mistakes & I understand what happened today was racing but I am not happy as this wrecked my race." .

Bautista said at the press conference following the race: "Unfortunately I lost my braking point and hit the brakes far too late. I tried to slow the bike down, but lost grip on the front.

"I am very disappointed, even more so because I took out Lorenzo in the process and that was the last thing that I wanted to happen.

"It was my fault that he crashed out and I apologise profusely to him for that. I hope that nothing similar ever happens again."

An appeal by Bautista's Gresini Honda team was dismissed.

Wilco Zeelenberg, Lorenzo's Team Manager told Malextra: "It was a very stupid accident, a too early attack by Bautista resulting in a big mistake. Luckily Jorge is uninjured which is pretty much the only positive thing to take from the race."

Crutchlow told us:"I was actually quite lucky to avoid being collected by Alvaro and Jorge but I still had to run off track and I was last. I'm glad Jorge was not hurt because the job he has done for Yamaha this season has been incredible and he didn't deserve that today. We should have been on the podium but it was out of my hands."