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Eugene Laverty says he is feeling okay and been given the all cl൩ear by the World Superbike medical team after his scary fall which caused the 𓃲red flag stoppage of race one at Imola.

On lap 13 Milwaukee Aprilia's Laverty and Alex Lowes on the Pata Yamaha collided in the run down to the Rivazza douཧble left-hander which broke the brake lines on Laverty's bike.

Travelling at appr꧟oximately 160mph Laverty made an instant decision to jump off his RSV4 which slammed into the crash barriers and caught fire but the Northern Irish rider avoided serious injur꧑y in his tumble through the gravel trap.

Laverty was immediately taken to the medical centre at Imola but having avoided injury he was allowed to leave and is expected🐭 to be given the all-clear to ride in🔜 Sunday's race two.

Laverty has confirmed he's okay aside from a few bumps and knocks rolling throu🍌gh the gravel trap at high speed but was plainly disappointed t✃o miss out in the race.

"I'm okay, wh💝en I got off theꩲ bike I tumbled a little bit but my body is okay," Laverty said. "Out of the right-hand kink before Rivazza Alex came up the inside of me and took the line away. I tried to brake but he was running a little bit wide which is something you shouldn't really be doing there. I had nowhere to go.

"It hooked my brake lines and pulled the brakes off so I had no brakes. I tried to pump them a few t💦imes but I had to get out of there.

"It isn't prett🌞y tumbling through the gravel trap there towards the wall so I was lucky ꦅto get away with it."

The incident was investigated by race direction but neither rider was penalised for the collision. The red flag saw Chaz Davies claim victory on the countback🌊 to the end of lap 12 with Jonathan Rea second and Marco Melandri third.

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Laverty's bike ꧒goes up in flames as he suffers a nasty crash -- Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK)