UPDATE: Moto2 title leader Scott Redding taken to Melbourne for further examinations on a suspected left wrist fracture.

Moto2 title leader Scott Redding was taken away on a stretcher after a nasty highside during qualifying for theꦰ Aust🌼ralian Grand Prix.

The 20-year-old Englishman was kicked out of the seat of his Marc VDS Kalex through the fast final section of the Phillip Island circuit, bouncingꦚ on top of the ⛎bucking bike before eventually being thrown off.

Redding was able to leave the stretcher an🅠d walk into the waiting ambulance💞 but appeared to have hurt a hand and is now having a 'suspected left wrist injury' examined in the Medical Centre.

The incident occurred just momentܫs after🎐 a fall for Redding's team-mate Mika Kallio.

Redding, who has a nine point lead over Pol Espargaro, had been holding sixth on the grid foꦓr the shortened 13-lap race - but was bumped down to tenth in his absence.

Espargaro is on pole.