MotoGP rookie Fabio Quartararo was forced to miss Friday afternoon practice at Phillip Island after a nasty highside at the end of a w🥂et FP1 session.

The Frenchman was flung from hi🏅s Petronas Yamaha when the rear slid around on entry to Turn 6,✱ landing awkwardly on his left ankle.

Clearly in pain, Quartararo was moved by stretcher from th🌼e side o🌜f the track and on to the Medical Centre.

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

"I lost the rear wheel, then I recovered the grip and I got thrown over the top," Quartararo said, 🌟just befﷺore watching FP2 from the pits.

"I have been lucky because🌃 after the st﷽rong impact on my ankle, 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 furt🔯her treatment with the aim of hopefully returning in Saturday's FP3 session.

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Quartararo, who finished the morning session in seventh, felt the accident was down 𒐪to a lack of experience in the wet, particularly in te💯rms of the engine maps.

"I don't have much experi♔ence in wet conditions, 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 manage the [engine🍌] maps in the rain. It 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 were the ﷽toughest and hurt me the ♊most."

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

The Sepang team's hom✤e Malaysia♛n Grand Prix starts in one week.