After dominating two days of practice, Stoner converted pole into an early race lead, then shook off Rizla Suzuki's John Hopkins to win by nearly eight seconds after 22 laps of the Brno circuit.

"The bike, the team and the tyres have been performing faultlessly at the past few races and it's just nice to top things up with another win," said the unflappable 21-year-old. "It was a great race, we completed race distance on the tyres this morning so we knew they'd last fine. We got an awesome start, I started off with six tenths on John, then the gap went up to a second, up to 1.2 seconds, then back down to one second, then up a little bit, down a little bit. I felt like I was close enough to the limit and he was still there and chasing me down, I was surprised and a little worried he could catch me but we just kept our pace until eight laps to go, then we started to pull a small advantage. I just had to keep up my concentration level to try and pull that advantage."

"That was another unbelievable job done by Casey, the team and Bridgestone," enthused Ducati MotoGP project director Livio Suppo. "Casey has the right approach to racing, he comes to each race trying to do his best and if everything is okay then he is able to win easily. He is in superb form at the moment - he makes it easy for us! He is also managing the pressure of leading the championship really well."

Indeed, with title rival Valentino Rossi a lowly seventh, Stoner's seventh victory of the year increased his MotoGP World Championship lead to a crushing 60 points, with six rounds remaining.

"I'm still going out there trying to win races, that's what we're here for, we're all out there fighting for every point. We knew we had a better package than everybody else today, so I just had to push through. That's the way I look at it - if you concentrate on it race by race it makes things a little easier," he said of the championship. "We've got a few things and a lot of tyres to test here tomorrow. I'm looking forward to the tests because although we've got a really good package it'll be great if we can improve it. Also these tests will help the machine for next year when hopefully we can come out a bit stronger."