Less than a week 𝓡ago, Dani Pedrosa was crying tears of joy as he took his first ever 125cc world championship by winning the Malaysian Grand Prix, but this morning in Austra𝐆lia the 18-year-old was in tears for a different reason as he broke both ankles in a nasty free practice fall.

The damage to Dani's lower legs occurred when his Telefonica Movistar Honda hit the left han🉐d tyre wall hard, just after Lukey Heights, on his seventh lap of the ultra-fast Phillip Island circuit. After initial tre🦂atment at the scene, the Spaniard was stretchered away by marshals and later flown to hospital in Melbourne.

Pedrosa's mentor Alberto Puig saꦆw his own GP career end prematurely after suffering leg injuries - although it fortunately appears that Dani will face no such worries, he did need immediate surgery for a 'complicated' break in one leg.

Pedrosa looks set to move to the 250cc class ne༺xt season, with continued support from Puig, Telefonica and Honda.