Pramac Ducati 2009
The Pramac Ducati rider Niccolo Canepa, has been injured in the Friday practice session of the Australian MotoGP, after only thirty-minutes on the track.
The Italian rider crashed at Turn 1, suffering burns to his arm after sliding across the track causing his leathers to burn through to his skin. He was initially taken to the track-side Clinica Mobile before being transferred to a hospital near Melbourne.
Canepa had the injury cleaned and checked for any nerve and tendon damage and is now to undergo a skin graft operation and the team and rider will then decide if he will take any further part in the weekend event.
The 250cc rider Hector Barbera, high-sided off his machine and landed heavily on his back, winding him and seeing him carried from the track on a stretcher. The Pepe World Aprilia man still led the session despite the fall with only sixteen-minutes of the practice left.
Barbera is now under observation to make certain that he has done no further damage to the injury he suffered last year at Motegi last year when he cracked a vertebrae.
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