Pull&Bear’s Eugene Laverty has been given the all clear to continue with his Motegi MotoGP weekend after a huge crash in free practice two saw him taken to hospital.

Laverty was spat off his Ducati GP14.2 at turn six and taken to the circuit medical centre before being tranferred to the Dokkyo Medical University Hospital.

Doctors there have ruled out any injuries although Laverty must wait for confirmation of his fitness from the circuit medics.

“The afternoon practice went very well. I started the session with the hard rear tyre, I was doing really good lap times with good rhythm and was up in 13th position,” said the Monegasque.

“So at the end we tried the soft rear tyre and I noticed it was taking more time to warm up so I tried to be careful. But on the first lap I crashed at the fast turn six when the rear tyre spun up. I was quite lucky in some ways because it was a huge crash.

“Thankfully the scan results were all clear and I will look to ride tomorrow. I’d like to thank the staff from the circuit at Motegi, the MotoGP doctors and the Clinica Mobile staff for taking care of me.”