By Mike Nicks

James Toseland admitted after crashing twice in the closing minutes of qualifying💟 for the British MotoGP today that he may have made a mistake in swapping his tyre in a final bid to secure a decent starting position.

"I came in with five minutes to go and changed tyres," he said after the wet one-hour qualifying session. "But m🐠aybe I should have stayed out on the tyre I was already running."

With three minutes of qu𓂃alifying remaining, JT was still only around 13th fastest on the Tech 3 Yamaha. Trying to hike his way further up the grid, he lost the bike on the 🙈exit from Goddards corner on the entrance to the finishing straight. He remounted, but then crashed again at Schwantz.

"I didn't make the most of the best q🌸ualifying tyre that I had," he said. "I tried to push too hard on a tyre that wasn't right for the job. I tried too hard and paid the price for it. I'm really disappointed to have my worst qualifying session of the year at my home GP."

Now Toseland - who hoped to score his first🌳 MotoGP podium at Donington - will have to struggle from the sixth and last row in the 30-lap race🍸.

Bradley Smith also crashed twice on his Polaris World Aprilia in🔯 the final 12🐻5cc qualifying session, and will start from the third row, one row ahead of Danny Webb.

So the honour of the being Britain's best starter ♛in tomorrow's three grand prix races falls to 15-year-old Scott Redding, who♉ goes from the front row in the 125cc race.