Casey Stoner
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| Casey Stoner | |
|---|---|
 Casey Stoner | |
| Nationality |  Australian |
| Date of birth | 16 October 1985 |
| Place of birth | Southport, QLD (Australia) |
| Website | caseystoner.com.au |
| MotoGP Record | |
| Current team | Ducati Marlboro Team |
| Bike number | 27 |
| Championships | 1 (2007) |
| Race starts | 121 |
| Wins | 25 |
| Podium finishes | 51 |
| Pole positions | 20 |
| Fastest laps | 21 |
| Points | 1497 |
| 2009 championship position | 3rd (150 pts) |
Casey Stoner (born 16 October 1985) is an Australian motorcycle racer. Born and raised in Southport, Queensland, Stoner raced from a young age and moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a racing career. After first competing internationally in 2002, he 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.
In 2008, Stoner was named Young Australian of the Year as well as Nickelodeon´s Australian Kids Choice Awards.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Early years
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, Stoner won 41 dirt and long track titles and 70 state titles.[1]
One feat he achieved that illustrates his passion and "need" for racing was 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, 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.[1]
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' team 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 was in advanced negotiations with Yamaha,[2] 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, Team LCR. 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,[3] joining Loris Capirossi on the new 800cc Ducati Desmosedici GP7. 6 poles and 10 race wins (including three of the first four[4]), took him to his first GP title, by a margin of 125 points (equivalent to five victories) over Dani Pedrosa, which he built during the second half of the season.[5] His worst finish was a 6th place at Motegi, which was all he needed to clinch the title that day.[6]
Stoner opened the 2008 season with a victory at Qatar, before a run of two races without a podium. He returned to success with a second place at Mugello, before starting a run of seven successive pole positions.[7] He turned three of them into successive victories - a lights-to-flag win at Donington[8], leading every lap at Assen six days later[9], and recovering from a huge Friday crash at Sachsenring[10] to win in the wet after Dani Pedrosa crashed[11], to move within 20 points of the championship lead. However, successive crashes while fighting for the lead at Laguna Seca (where he remounted to finish second to Valentino Rossi),[12] Brno and Misano ensured that he could not defend the title successfully.[13][14] Stoner finished the 2008 season as runner-up to Rossi with 280 points, the highest amount of points gained without taking the title.[15]
Stoner remains with Ducati for the 2009 season with new team mate Nicky Hayden, with a further option for a 4th season in 2010.[16] A strong start to the season left Stoner in a three way battle with the Fiat Yamaha duo of Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, before a mystery illness caused him to feel tired long before the ends of races, leaving him 16 points behind Rossi and 7 behind Lorenzo after the US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca on July 5.
Stoner was subsequently diagnosed with anemia and an inflammation of the stomach lining.[17] Stoner later disputed the diagnosis however and, after continuing to struggle with the condition, he announced on August 10 2009 that he would miss rounds 11, 12 and 13 in Brno, Indianapolis and Misano respectively in an attempt to recover from the illness[18]. Mika Kallio has been chosen as Stoner's replacement for these three races.[19]
Stoner has showed signs of feeling underappreciated by the general public. He was angered by consistent suggestions that the bike and tyres had a bigger role in his success than he did[20], and unhappy at being booed at Donington in both 2007 and 2008[21]
In August 2008 he was criticised for his team's association with tobacco company Philip Morris.[22]
[edit] Personal life
Stoner met Adriana Tuchyna from Adelaide when she approached him at Phillip Island in 2003 and asked him to sign her stomach[23]. A relationship began in 2005 when she turned 16,[24] and they were married in Adelaide on 6 January 2007.[25]
[edit] Career statistics
[edit] By season
| Season | Class | Bike | Team | Race | Win | Pod | Pole | FLap | Pts | Plcd | WCh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 125cc | Honda RS125R | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 29th | - | |
| 2002 | 250cc | Aprilia RS250 | Team LCR | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 12th | - |
| 2003 | 125cc | Aprilia RS125 | Team LCR | 14 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 125 | 8th | - |
| 2004 | 125cc | KTM 125 FPR | Red Bull KTM | 14 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 145 | 5th | - |
| 2005 | 250cc | Aprilia RSA250 | Team LCR | 16 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 254 | 2nd | - |
| 2006 | MotoGP | Honda RC211V | Team LCR | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 119 | 8th | - |
| 2007 | MotoGP | Ducati GP7 | Ducati Corse | 18 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 367 | 1st | 1 |
| 2008 | MotoGP | Ducati GP8 | Ducati Corse | 18 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 280 | 2nd | - |
| 2009 | MotoGP | Ducati GP9 | Ducati Corse | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 150* | 4th* | - |
| Total | 123 | 25 | 51 | 20 | 20 | 1497 | 1 |
- * Season in progress.
[edit] By class
| Class | Season | First Race | First Podium | First 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-Present | 2006 Spain | 2006 Turkey | 2007 Qatar | 62 | 18 | 31 | 16 | 16 | 901 | 1 |
| Total | 2001-Present | 123 | 25 | 51 | 20 | 20 | 1497 | 1 |
[edit] Races by year
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Class | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Pos | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 125cc | Honda | JPN | RSA | SPA | FRA | ITA | CAT | NED | GBR 17 | GER | CZE | POR | VAL | PAC | AUS 12 | MAL | BRA | 29th | 4 | ||
| 2002 | 250 cc | Aprilia | JPN Ret | RSA 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 | RSA 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 | RSA 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 | RSM 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 1 | NED 1 | GER 1 | USA 2 | CZE Ret | RSM Ret | IND 4 | JPN 2 | AUS 1 | MAL 6 | VAL 1 | 2nd | 280 |
| 2009 | MotoGP | Ducati | QAT 1 | JPN 4 | SPA 3 | FRA 5 | ITA 1 | CAT 3 | NED 3 | USA 4 | GER 4 | GBR 14 | CZE DNS | IND DNS | SMR DNS | POR | AUS | MAL | VAL | 4th | 150* |
- * Season In Progress
[edit] References
- ^ a b Motorcycle-USA Staff. Casey Stoner Bio. Motorcycle-USA.com. Retrieved on 2009-06-17.
- ^ McKay, Peter (18 October 2005). "Road to top opening up for Stoner". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/motorsport/road-to-top-opening-up-for-stoner/2005/10/17/1129401198620.html. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
- ^ Grant, Robert (17 October 2006). "Stoner switches to Ducati". Herald Sun. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,20593459-39478,00.html. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
- ^ Valentino Rossi's hairpin bender leaves Casey Stoner clear for a third MotoGP win
- ^ Q & A with Casey Stoner
- ^ Steve Parrish on Casey Stoner
- ^ Motorcycling: Stoner takes fourth consecutive pole at German GP
- ^ Sublime Stoner beats Rossi to Donington glory
- ^ Casey Stoner makes case for MotoGP title
- ^ Sachsenring MotoGP: Casey Stoner fastest after massive crash
- ^ Stoner wins again at wet Sachsenring
- ^ Madson, Bart. MotoGP 2008 Laguna Seca Results. Motorcycle-USA.com. Retrieved on 2009-06-17.
- ^ Madson, Bart. MotoGP 2008 Brno Results. Motorcycle-USA.com. Retrieved on 2009-06-17.
- ^ Madson, Bart. MotoGP 2008 Misano Results. Motorcycle-USA.com. Retrieved on 2009-06-17.
- ^ Madson, Bart. MotoGP 2008 Valencia Results. Motorcycle-USA.com. Retrieved on 2009-06-17.
- ^ Harley, Bryan. Hayden Turns First Laps on Ducati GP09. Motorcycle-USA.com. Retrieved on 2009-06-17.
- ^ "Stoner mystery illness diagnosed". BBC Sport. 2009-07-15. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/8135705.stm. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
- ^ "Stoner to miss next three rounds". Insidebikes. 2009-08-10. http://www.carolenash.com/insidebikes/bike-news/stoner-to-miss-next-three-rounds.htm#more-4016. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
- ^ http://moto.gpupdate.net/en/news/2009/08/10/stoner-out-for-three-races-as-kallio-steps-in/
- ^ Seething Casey Stoner uses his critics as fuel to kick-start title defence
- ^ He now has a nick-name of Casey Moaner, which is popular with many Valentino Rossi fans.Stoner slams British GP fans
- ^ Marlboro man Stoner under fire
- ^ "Boy racer who left motorcycle grand prix world in his wake". theage.com.au. 22 September 2007. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/21/1189881778302.html. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ^ "MotoGP kick-started". Motorcycle Riders Association. 14 October 2005. http://mraa.org.au/forum/modules/news/article.php?storyid=86. Retrieved 2007-04-16.
- ^ "Casey Stoner in red for the first time". 16 January 2007. http://www.ducati.com/racing/home_news_popup_racing.jhtml;jsessionid=LVBXHBXRXFXTYCRNCB2SFEYKFUIHUIV3?newsId=32756&backNews=archive. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
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