MotoGP rookie Fabio Quartararo was forced to miss Friday afternoon practice at Phillip Island after a nasty highside at the end of a wet FP✃1 session.

The Frenchman was flung from his Petronas Yamaha when th🐼e rear slid around on entꦛry to Turn 6, landing awkwardly on his left ankle.

Clearly in pain, Quartararo was moved by stretcher from the side of the track and on to the M🔜edꦕical Centre.

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

"I lost the rear wheel, then I recovered the ꧟grip and I go🎃t thrown over the top," Quartararo said, just before watching FP2 from the pits.

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

The six-tim꧋e podium finisher 🦋is to undergo further treatment with the aim of hopefully returning in Saturday's FP3 session.

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Evꦦen though he was declared fi🍃t , the Frenchman didn't participate in FP2 due to the painkillers he was administered

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Quartar💖aro, who finished the morning session in seventh, felt the accident was down to a lack of experience in the wet, particula𓄧rly in terms of the engine maps.

"I don't have ✨much experience in wet conditions, bܫut it was going pretty well," said the 20-year-old.

"I have made a mistake, but it can be said that it ha🍰s been an apprenticeship of how to manage the [engine] maps in the rain. It was drying and the g꧃rip 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 were the toughe🐼st and hurt me𒉰 the most."

Afꦺter a sunny FP2, more rain is for🔯ecast for Saturday.

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