motorcycle news - Friday 2nd May 2008
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Yamaha MotoGP leader Lorenzo injures ankle in practice
Yamaha MotoGP world championship leader Jorge Lorenzo may miss Sunday's China Grand Prix after crashing heavily during Friday's opening practice session.
The Yamaha rider was taken to hospital after X-rays at the track showed he may have fractured a bone in his ankle.
"He hit both ankles quite hard so he has quite a lot of pain in both of them but the bad one is the right one," a spokeswoman for Yamaha said.
"There may be a very small fracture in the right foot."
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The practice session in Shanghai was Lorenzo's first since he had surgery on his right arm to relieve compartmental syndrome following his win in Portugal on 13 April.
He lost control of his 800cc machine in a chicane and was thrown off before sliding to a stop.
The Spaniard, who turns 21 on Sunday, has enjoyed a brilliant debut season in MotoGP with three pole positions and three podiums in his first three races.
Lorenzo is joint top of the championship table with his compatriot Dani Pedrosa, who rides for Honda, on 61 points after three races, with one win each so far.
His Yamaha team-mate, Italy's Valentino Rossi, was the fastest rider in the first session in China - posting a lap of one minute 59.906 seconds.
Rossi was four-tenths of a second faster than 2007 world champion Casey Stoner, with Pedrosa third.
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