On average, a Honda ride🍒r was almost twice as likely to fall compared with a Yamaha r🥂ider during the 2017 MotoGP season.

But Aprilia riders suffered almost three times the accident average of those𓆉 at✤ Yamaha.

Dorna records each ༺accident dᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚuring 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 they were on machines that d🍸id not do the full season.

Accidents by replacemen🌸t riders were included 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 to injury and was not replaced; Valentino R𓆏ossi (Yamaha) at Misano and Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia) at Sepang.

The figures suggest Aprilia riders Aleix Espargaro (19) and rookie Sam Lowes (31) pushed the lim💧it most this season - or had the least feel for the limit from their bikes𒁃.

Honda was next up, with 51 of their 84 falls being accounted for by wo🔴rld champion Marc Marquez (27) and Cal Crutchlow (24).

"Historically, we [Honda riders] are crashing more than the othe🐭r manufacturers," ⭕said Crutchlow.

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

"It's because we are pushing so hard, but Marc won the tit🌺le so you can't complain too much."

Suzuki and Ducat♍i came out evenly matched with a 12 falls-per-rider average, with KTM (9.0) and Yamaha (8.8) the lowest.

Yamaha's average is all t🌌he more impressive given there were two rookies at the Tech 3 team, plus three last-minute replacements for Fol🐼ger.

'Xaus used a trampoline'

Returning to the subject of Marquez's 27 falls - ten higher than the Spaniard had suffered in any previous Mo🀅toGP 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 his 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 car♏eer, I think the only time I saw him get injured was when he broke hiꦚs 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 cra🐻shed probably the same amount 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 - touch wood - I've not been too bad injury-ꦆwise 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 wrapping my legs around my head like he does, trying to do stuff that should💙 be on an internet channel! But it could work."