Honda promise to fix Hayden's glitch

Hayden, who has not visited the rostrum since last year's Czech Grand Prix, held a comfortable third throughout the Dutch TT, only for his bike to slow at the final corner after consuming more fuel than expected, allowing Colin Edwards to demote him to fourth.

"Nicky tried so hard but he was very unlucky," Yamano said.

"We are sorry for him and we will solve this electronics problem before the next race."

The American said that the glitch had been present from the start.

"On the sighting lap I knew something was wrong," said Hayden, who unlike teammate Dani Pedrosa has chosen to switch to Honda's new pneumatic valve engine.

"It's been a little bit frustrating because she hasn't run right off the bottom since I got here, especially out of slow corners. They've been changing stuff and they thought they had it fixed but something was wrong.

"I had a dash light come on at the start of the race, though it went off after the start. She finally quit right before the finish line.

"There at the end I was trying to make a push on Dani. I wanted to keep the pressure on him, he was coming back to me a bit. I was pushing, then on the last lap I thought 'oh no, we're in trouble.'"

Although Hayden was pleased that he at least salvaged fourth place, he said it was little consolation for the loss of a podium.

"Unfortunately this game can be cruel sometimes," he said.

"To be so close to a really good result is tough, but we still finished, we made it across the line and still got some good points out of the deal, but it would've been nice to stand on the podium. The team certainly deserved it, they've worked really hard this weekend.

"Nonetheless the bike is working good, now they've got a week and a half to hopefully sort it out in Japan and we can keep moving on."