Nicky Hayden looks to have suffered another right hand fracture as🅠 a result of his s🦩cary Aragon MotoGP accident.

The factory Ducati star speareꦕd off-track through the fast final turn at the end of lap two of the race.

Unable to slow down sufficiently in the run-off area, the American then slammed into an advertising board. The force of theꦰ impact launched Hayden over the top of the ty🌄re barrier and onto an access road.

Hayden previously suffered fractures to the second and third metacarpal on the same hand during hisဣ huge Indianapolis qualifying accident, in mid-ඣAugust, which also forced him to miss Brno.

"I thought I had escaped unscathed from the crash at Aragon, but unfortunately it looks like I picked up another injury," said Haydཧen in theꦚ run-up to this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix.

"When I got home, my right hand was bothering me a bit, so I went for an X-ray and CT scan, and i🔯t turns out I have a fracture in my ꦦright radius.

"It's definitely not the best situation, but as it's not too painful andꦕ I have pretty good grip strength, I'm hopeful that it won't cause too many problems this weekend.

"Racing's full of ups and downs. We'll try to ride thiꩵs one out and hopefully get a decent result in Japan to get a little momentum going and get some confidence back."

Unfortunately for Hayden, Motegi i🎉s the first of three races in successive weekends.