It’s Dani Pedrosa, not Jorge Lorenzo or Valentino Rossi that two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner learnt the most from during his career; ‘I raced him my entire career. The way he was able to find speed would blow your mind’.
After his first paddock appearance since 2018 at Portimao, two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner will be back in Ducati’s corner for this weekend’s season finale at Valencia.
Two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner believes Ducati can win the 2022 title if ‘a little more consistency’ is added, while the Australian also revisits his rivalry with Valentino Rossi.
- Casey Stoner has been asked for his opinion on the rumours that fellow MotoGP champion and former rival Valentino Rossi will extend his career by switching to Petronas Yamaha next season.
Casey Stoner, one of the most naturally talented riders ever seen in MotoGP, hopes to become more involved in the sport in future and 'give back' some of the knowledge and expertise gained during a stellar grand prix career.
Jorge Lorenzo may have fallen short of his target to win MotoGP races on three different types of machine, but the Spaniard is proud to have been the only rider to win world championships against Dani Pedrosa, Casey Stoner, Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez.
Valentino Rossi has picked out his own top three wins from across his career and believes having a strong rivalry helped him raise his own performance level to greater heights.
Reflecting on one of his greatest races, Valentino Rossi says beating Casey Stoner at the 2008 United States MotoGP at Laguna Seca was crucial for his title charge that season.
Turning up to Le Mans in May 2012 the rumours were rife about Casey Stoner considering retirement from MotoGP as defending world champion aged just 26.
From the 2000 British Grand Prix to the 2017 Dutch TT (and counting), Valentino Rossi tops the all-time list for most world championship race wins in MotoGP’s premier class to give him a multitude of options for which could be his best.
Casey Stoner is auctioning a set of MotoGP race leathers he won to victory at the 2010 Aragon Grand Prix to help raise funds for the Australian bushfire crisis.
With a list so subjective to opinion it is fair to state this isn’t a definitive record of the decade but a snapshot of the times which shaped the sport and its stars going into the next decade and beyond. These moments act as the essential chapters in the history of MotoGP in the 2010s.
In one of the all-time greatest decades of motorcycle grand prix world championship racing, the face of the sport has changed remarkably from the move to 1000cc four-strokes in MotoGP in 2012, to the introduction of the single-specification Magneti Marelli electronics package and switch to Michel
After Marc Marquez clinched the 2019 MotoGP world championship, his status as one of the sport’s greatest of all-time continues to rise but where does that put him alongside the best of the very best.
Casey Stoner believes it will be easier for Jorge Lorenzo to adapt to Repsol Honda compared to how he adapted to Ducati after leaving the factory Yamaha squad – Speedweek via Marca
Andrea Dovizioso has become the latest name tempted into an F1-MotoGP switch following Marc Marquez and Lewis Hamilton trying new disciplines this year – La Gazzetta dello Spo
With Casey Stoner now officially confirmed as parting ways with Ducati, rumours have increased that the former double MotoGP champion might return to a test-riding role for Honda.
-Valentino Rossi says he’d love to take on the Dakar rally and Le Mans 24 Hours after his MotoGP career and says Carlos Sainz’s victory at the Dakar at the age of 55 gives him hope to continue ( Marca )