Pull&Bear Ducati's Karel Abraham will undergo a fitness assessment tomorrow morning at the Austin MotoGP round after a clash with team-mate Alvaro Bautista left the Czech rider with a hairline fracture of his right ankle.

Abraham was on an out lap and on the exit of turn 11, he was in collision with Bautist and fell. His GP15 landed on top of him as it slid down the hil towards turn 12. The Spanish rider stayed on and was uninjured in the incident.

“It is disappointing because we just put soft tyres on to make a better lap time, I went out and took the first few corners carefully then started to push. I got to the hairpin before the back straight and braked a little too late, so I ran wide. When I turned and opened the throttle, unfortunately Alvaro was exiting the corner at the same time and I don't know if his bike moved or what but he hit me from the side,” said Abraham.

“I didn't expect it, I had a big crash and the bike landed on me. Now I have pain in a couple of places. I need an x-ray on my ankle but I hope to be back on the bike again tomorrow.”

Bautista said: “As far as the incident with my team-mate is concerned, I could see that he was riding slowly and I didn't want to pass him on the brakes into turn eleven, so I waited to pass him on the straight. I thought he was letting me through but then he came back onto the track and there wasn't enough room for both of us. We touched and he went down.”