Pramac Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia will miss this weekend's Czech Grand Prix after fracturing his right knee in a crash during FP1 on Friday at Brno. The MotoGP sophomore suffered heartbreak at the Andalusian GP at Jerez last month when an engine issue took him out of a maiden podium in second, though he felt after that weekend he was now a "fully-fledged" rider. A favourite to be in the podium battle this weekend and at the subsequent Austria double-header, both venues primed for the Ducati, Bagnaia's Turn 1 crash towards the end of FP1 required a trip to hospital in Brno for checks on a suspected knee fracture. Pramac boss Fracesco Guidotti confirmed on the MotoGP world feed...
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