MotoGP Brno: Alvaro Bautista ruled out of the rest of the weekend UPDATED

During this morning’s free practice at Brno saw Dani Pedrosa pip Jorge Lorenzo by 0.
016s for the first spot in the timesheets followed by Andrea Dovizioso who took third and was 0.
371s from his team mate on the damp and misty Czech track.

Alvaro Bautista was caught out by the cold track and crashed and was first taken to the circuit medical centre on a stretcher and then transferred to Brno hospital for a suspected L1 vertebra injury.

According to the motogp.
com website the Spaniard has been ruled out of Sunday’s race, but their is no further information about Bautista’s physical condition.

More news when we have it.
UPDATED:Dr.
Claudio Costa speaking to Italia 1, has confirmed that Bautista has not fractured his L1 vertebra, but sustained only heavy bruising and will undergo a further medical check tomorrow morning to decide whether he’ll race or not.