MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner fell while fighting with Repsoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚl Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa for victory at the penultimate turn of Sunday's German Grand Prix.

The factory RCV riღders had been in a class of their own throughout the race, exchanging the lead several times, with Pedrosa ahead for the final elev🍒en laps.

However title leader Stoner remained in his wheeltracks throughout and was planning to try and 🐽snatch ☂his fourth victory of the season at the final turn.

But he never made it that far.

As the Australian pushed a little harder into the penultimate left hander at the base of the hill, his front wheel folded and he slid off at hi📖gh speed.

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

"I was comfortable for the whole race and felt🐎 we had a few tenths a lap over Dani.

"Then on the final lap I made a small mistake g🥃oing 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 going into the final t♌urn, where I was confident I could make t🍷he pass.

"But as soon as I went to turꦫn 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 point 🌞and Stoner slammed the trackside marshals ꦯfor not helping him rejoin.

"[The fall is] disappointing for sure, but for me the most disappointing thing a⛄bout it was the 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, Germ♓an marshals have kept me from getting a decent result."

Stoner has now droppedꦇ from joint equal with Lorenzo for the ti𝓀tle lead to 20-points down in third.

The DNF also marked Stoner൩'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 then the s🍷ame thing happened to me at Jerez last ye𝐆ar," said Stoner.

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

"I just made a sliꦕght mistake and got caught out."

Round eight of 18 takes place at Mugell🌌o in Italy next weekend.

"Fast corners, high speeds and a lot of ꧃wheelspin. That's what I enjoy about Mugello," said Stoner. "It's not 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 grip level✨s.

"It's frustrating to ride round at 20-30% throttl🅰e. It's nice to open it up."

Stoner finished third at Mugello la♛st year, behind Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso.