Loris Capirossi was declared unfit for the Australia GP race at Phillip Island after sustaining a a strained adductor muscle of his left thigh that he picked up in mean high-side during last week’s Saturday qualifying session.
The Italian was also nursing a battered heel and ankle bone after the Sepang free practice crash, and after returning home to Montecarlo unwent a MRI scan that revealed that he actually suffered a compound fracture to his right heel bone and a microfracture to the fourth metatarsal bone, which could rule him out of next week’s race at Estoril.