Casey Stoner

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Casey Stoner
Casey Stoner
Nationality	Australian
Date of birth	October 16, 1985 (1985-10-16) (age 22)
Place of birth	Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia
Website	caseystoner.com.au
MotoGP Record
Current team	Ducati Marlboro Team
Bike number	1
World Championships	1 (2007)
Race starts	95
Race Wins	17
Podium finishes	35
Pole positions	10
Fastest laps	10
Championship Points	1082
2008 Championship position	4th (92 pts) - In Progess

Casey Stoner (born October 16, 1985) is an Australian motorcycle racer. Born and raised in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Stoner won the title of 2007 MotoGP World Champion when he succeeded American Nicky Hayden. He currently competes in the MotoGP class for the Ducati Marlboro Team.

Stoner began competing at age four and won his first race at age nine, following in the footsteps of his older sister, Kelly Stoner, who also raced. At age 14, Stoner and his parents moved to England, where he later won the English 125cc Aprilia Championship in 2000.

In 2008, Stoner was named Young Australian of the Year.

1 Biography
2 Personal life
3 Career statistics
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

He competed in his first race was when he was four years old, in an under-nine years old race at the Mike Hatcher's dirt racing track on the Gold Coast of Australia. Between his very first race win at the age of nine and the age of fourteen, young Casey Stoner won 41 dirt and long track titles and 70 state titles. One feat he achieved that illustrates his passion and "need" for racing was done at age twelve. Over one weekend he raced in 5 different categories in all 7 rounds of each capacity. A weekend consisting of 35 different races... Not only did he compete in all these categories and different engine capacities, the young Casey Stoner went on to win 32 out of the 35 races. There were five Australian titles to be won that weekend, Stoner won all 5.

The legal age to enter into road races in Australia is 16. At the age of 14 years, Casey Stoner and his parents agreed he was ready to move up onto road racing so they packed up and moved to England - where the legal age for road racing is 14.

From 2000 to 2002, he contested the national 125cc GP championships in Britain and Spain, winning the English 125cc Aprilia Championship in 2000, before moving fulltime to the 250cc GP World Championships in 2002. His season on an Aprilia under the guidance of Lucio Cecchinello was turbulent, with no podium places from 15 race starts.

[edit] 125cc

In 2003 Stoner moved to the 125cc GP category. Here, working again with Cecchinello and Aprilia, he met with considerable success, scoring his first GP race win and three second places, finishing 8th overall at the season's end.

In 2004 Stoner joined the Red Bull KTM factory team in 125cc class and continued to improve, with another race win, two second places, three thirds, and a final championship position of fifth.

[edit] 250cc

In 2005 he rejoined the 250cc world championship class, racing once again for Lucio Cecchinello on an Aprilia. Onboard a factory Aprilia, Stoner emerged toward the season's end as a serious threat to championship leader Dani Pedrosa; a threat that only dissipated with a crash at Stoner's home Grand Prix of Phillip Island, allowing Pedrosa to establish an insurmountable points lead. Stoner went on to claim a solid second place in the overall championship standings, with an impressive five race victories for the season.

[edit] MotoGP

Stoner during the MotoGP pre-season test session at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia in January 2007.

Stoner was in advanced negotiations with Yamaha,^[1] but after they dropped them he settled on an alliance once more with team manager Lucio Cecchinello on a Honda RC211V, on a one-bike team new to the series for the 2006 Season. He took pole for only his second race, but crashed several times. He finished his debut season in 8th position with his best result being a 2nd place at the Turkish GP, where he was overtaken on the final corner by Marco Melandri.

Stoner secured a ride with the factory Ducati team for the 2007 season,^[2] joining Loris Capirossi on the new 800cc Ducati Desmosedici GP7. 6 poles and 10 race wins took him to his first GP title.

He recently signed a contract extension with Ducati that will see him remain with the team for the 2008 and 2009 seasons (in which he will partner Italian Marco Melandri), with a further option for a 4th season in 2010.

[edit] Personal life

Stoner met Adriana Tuchyna from Adelaide when she approached him at Phillip Island in 2003 and asked for an autograph. A relationship began in 2005 when she turned 16,^[3] and they were married in Adelaide on 6 January 2007.^[4]

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] By season

Seas	Class	Moto	Race	Win	Pod	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd	WCh
2001	125cc	Honda RS125R	2	0	0	0	0	4	29th	-
2002	250cc	Aprilia RS250	15	0	0	0	0	68	12th	-
2003	125cc	Aprilia RS125	14	1	4	1	2	125	8th	-
2004	125cc	KTM 125 FPR	14	1	6	1	1	145	5th	-
2005	250cc	Aprilia RS250	16	5	10	2	1	254	2nd	-
2006	MotoGP	Honda RC211V	16	0	1	1	0	119	8th	-
2007	MotoGP	Ducati GP7	18	10	14	5	6	367	1st	1
Total			95	17	35	10	10	1082		1

[edit] By class

Class	Seas	1st GP	1st Pod	1st Win	Race	Win	Podiums	Pole	FLap	Pts	WChmp
125 cc	2001, 2003-2004	2001 Britain	2003 Germany	2003 Valencia	30	2	10	2	3	274	0
250 cc	2002, 2005	2002 Japan	2005 Portugal	2005 Portugal	31	5	10	2	1	322	0
MotoGP	2006-2007	2006 Spain	2006 Turkey	2007 Qatar	36	11	15	6	7	511	1
Total	2001-2007				97	18	35	10	11	1107	1

[edit] Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Yr	Class	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Final Pos	Pts
2001	125 cc	Honda	JPN	SAF	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR 17	GER	CZE	POR	VAL	PAC	AUS 12	MAL	BRA			29th	4
2002	250 cc	Aprilia	JPN Ret	SAF Ret	SPA 6	FRA Ret	ITA Inj	CAT 6	NED 8	GBR 11	GER Ret	CZE 5	POR Ret	BRA 6	PAC 17	MAL 11	AUS 10	VAL 13			12th	68
2003	125 cc	Aprilia	JPN Ret	SAF 10	SPA 6	FRA 4	ITA 18	CAT Ret	NED Ret	GBR 5	GER 2	CZE Inj	POR Inj	BRA 2	PAC 2	MAL Ret	AUS Ret	VAL 1			8th	125
2004	125 cc	KTM	SAF 3	SPA 5	FRA 8	ITA 2	CAT 4	NED 3	BRA 2	GER Inj	GBR Inj	CZE Ret	POR Ret	JPN Ret	QAT Ret	MAL 1	AUS 3	VAL Ret			5th	145
2005	250 cc	Aprilia	SPA Ret	POR 1	CHN 1	FRA 4	ITA 4	CAT 2	NED 6	GBR 3	GER 7	CZE 3	JPN 3	MAL 1	QAT 1	AUS Ret	TUR 1	VAL 3			2nd	254
2006	MotoGP	Honda	SPA 6	QAT 5	TUR 2	CHN 5	FRA 4	ITA Ret	CAT Ret	NED 4	GBR 4	GER DNS	USA Ret	CZE 6	MAL 8	AUS 6	JPN Ret	POR Ret	VAL Ret		8th	119
2007	MotoGP	Ducati	QAT 1	SPA 5	TUR 1	CHN 1	FRA 3	ITA 4	CAT 1	GBR 1	NED 2	GER 5	USA 1	CZE 1	SMR 1	POR 3	JPN 6	AUS 1	MAL 1	VAL 2	1st	367
2008	MotoGP	Ducati	QAT 1	SPA 11	POR 6	CHN 3	FRA 16	ITA 2	CAT 3	GBR -	NED -	GER -	USA -	CZE -	SMR -	IND -	JPN -	AUS -	MAL -	VAL -	-	-

[edit] References

^ McKay, Peter. "Road to top opening up for Stoner", The Sydney Morning Herald, October 18, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
^ Grant, Robert. "Stoner switches to Ducati", Herald Sun, October 17, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
^ "MotoGP kick-started", Motorcycle Riders Association, October 14, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
^ "Casey Stoner in red for the first time", January 16, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.

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Preceded by Nicky Hayden	MotoGP Motorcycle World Champion 2007–present	Incumbent

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Teams and Riders competing in the 2008 MotoGP World Championship

Ducati Marlboro	Repsol Honda	Rizla Suzuki	Fiat Yamaha	Honda Gresini	Alice Team	Kawasaki Racing	Yamaha Tech 3	Honda LCR	JiR Team Scot
1 Stoner 33 Melandri	2 Pedrosa 69 Hayden	7 Vermeulen 65 Capirossi	46 Rossi 48 Lorenzo	15 de Angelis 56 Nakano	24 Elías 50 Guintoli	13 West 21 Hopkins	5 Edwards 52 Toseland	14 de Puniet	4 Dovizioso