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Are there torsion-free restricted simple Lie algebras?

It is known that a torsion-free group can be simple (see e.g. Rataggi's paper https://www.degruyter.com/abstract/j/jgth.2007.10.issue-3/jgt.2007.028/jgt.2007.028.xml). I would like to know if the situation in the context of modular Lie algebras is similar. More precisily:

Let $\mathbb{F}$ be a field of characteristic $p>0$. Does there exist a restricted simple Lie algebra over $\mathbb{F}$ with no nonzero $p$-algebraic element?

I recall that an element $x$ of a restricted Lie algebra $(L,[p])$ is said to be $p$-algebraic if the restricted subalgebra generated by $x$ is finite-dimensional.