"Thanks for voting me number one in this poll! I hope you have all enjoyed the season, it has been a very special one for me. Together with the 2004 championship I can say that this has been the best of my career and we had to fight incredibly hard to win it, which makes it even better. Now I am already looking forward to trying to win again with Yamaha next year!"

Comparing your Star of the Year votes with the top seven in the 2008 world championship standings, only two riders were out of sync, indicating that you considered race results to be the most important factor when assessing star quality.

The two exceptions were Dani Pedrosa and Colin Edwards. Pedrosa dropped from third in the championship to just sixth in the star vote - moving Jorge Lorenzo, Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden up one place from their championship positions - while Edwards dropped from seventh to eighth, after narrowly losing out to team-mate Toseland.

However, you still ranked the four 2008 rookies in the same order as they finished in the world championship; Lorenzo followed by Dovizioso, Toseland and de Angelis.

MotoGP Star of the Year vote:

1st - Valentino Rossi
2nd - Casey Stoner
3rd - Jorge Lorenzo
4th - Andrea Dovizioso
5th - Nicky Hayden
6th - Dani Pedrosa
7th - James Toseland
8th - Colin Edwards
9th - Toni Elias
10th - Alex de Angelis