Dani Pedrosa escaped serious injury in a big highside, triggered by contact with team-mate Marc Marquez in S꧒unday's Aragn MotoGP.

But Pedrosa's title hopes look to have suffered terminal damage, slipping 59-points from Marquez ಞwith just four rounds remaining.

Pedrosa and Marquez were running second and third behind Jorge Lorenzo when Marquez m𒆙issed his braking poin▨t on lap 6 of the race.

The rookie tried to avoid Pedrosa, but made light contact - snapping a cable and disabling Pedrosa's traction ꦓcontrol, causing Pedrosa to highside on the exit of the turn.

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Afterwards, Pedrosa was sent to the Medical Centre for checksღ. Sunday was Pedrosa's 28th birthday.

"Fortunately I'm fine physically," said Pedrosa. "I took a heavy knock to my hip and my🅘 groin area, but I was🦩 able to escape relatively unhurt from what was a big crash.

"Marc went in too wide oౠn the corner entry, clipped me from the outside and I went flying when I got on the gas. My mechanics told me later that the traction control cable had been cut by the contact."

The Marquez-Pedrosa incident is currently under investigation by R♐ace Direction. Pedrosa told the official MotoGP website: "Whatever the de🔯cision I will still have zero points."

"They were braking in a different way, different style for that corner," added team manager Livio Suppo. "Marc is not stupid. He knows a touch could mean a big problem also for him. He didn'💞t do it deliberately. Unfortunately these kind of things can happen. Dani is in pain, but more than that it is a big disappointment. I totally understand."

Marquez went🔯 on to win the race frꦬom Lorenzo, who is now 39 points behind the reigning Moto2 champion.

Honda will no doubt protect tಞhe sensor cable in future, but it is nonetheless surprising that the traction control system didn't revert to a safe/back-up mode once the sensor had failed.