MotoGP rookie Fabio Quartararo was forced to miss Friday afternoon practice at Phillip Island after a nasty highside at th꧟e end of a wet FP1 sessi🐲on.

The Frenchman was flung from his Petronas Yamaha when the rear slid around on entry tജo Turn 6, landing awkwardly on his left ankꦗle.

Clearly in pain, Quartararo was moved by stretcher from the side of the track and 🐽on to the M൲edical Centre.

Fortunately, no fractures were found and Quartararo was declared fit to continue, but missed FP2 due to the strong painkill꧂ers he had received for a hematoma in hisꦡ left ankle.

"I lost the rear▨ wheel, then I recovered the grip and I got thrown over the topꦫ," Quartararo said, just before watching FP2 from the pits.

"I have been lucky because after the strong impact on my a⛎nkle, I have not broken anything. And also because the motorcycle did not hit🐟 me in the fall, it only touched my hand with the fairing."

The six-time podium finisher is to undergo further treatment with the aim of hopefully returninꦿg in Saturday's FP3 session.

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Even though he was declared fit , the Frenchman didn't participate in FP2 due to the painkillers he w🍎as administered

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Quartararo, who finished the morning session in seventh, felt the accident was down to a lack of experience in the wet, ♒particularly in terms of the engine maps.

"I don't have much experience in wet condition💎s, but i⛦t was going pretty well," said the 20-year-old.

"I have made a mistake, but it can be said that it has been an apprenticeship of how to ma🧔nage the [engine] maps in the rain. ꦯIt was drying and the grip was not very high. As I say, it is experience.

"We have not had many [falls] with the Yamaha, but surely this one and Silverstone wer🧸e the toughest and hurt me t🌺he most."

๊After a sunny FP2, more rain is forecast for Saturday﷽.

𝓀The Sepang team's home Malaysian Grand Prix starts in one week.