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Australian racing driver Casey Stoner on his Marlboro Ducati during the first training session this morning at the TT circuit in Assen, The Netherlands.
During both training sessions he did sett the best time.
He also is the leader of this year MotoGP sofar.
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From Wikipedia
Casey Stoner born October 16, 1985 (1985-10-16) (age 21) is a motorcycle racer originally from Kurri Kurri in New South Wales, Australia. He currently competes in the MotoGP class for the Ducati Marlboro team.
Biography
At the age of 14 years old, after an amazing junior career on dirtbikes which resulted in an amazing 41 dirt and long track titles, and over 70 state titles in Australia, Stoner's family moved him to England to commence his road racing career (In Australia the legal age to commence road racing is 16 years). 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.
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 claim a solid second place in the overall championship standings, with an impressive five race victories for the season.
MotoGP
Stoner was rumoured to be considering a position with Yamaha[1], but eventually 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 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 factory Honda rider 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, replacing Spanish rider Sete Gibernau, who, ironically was knocked off his bike by the young Australian at the penultimate race of the 2006 season in Estoril. As a result of the injuries sustained in the fall, Sete could not ride again for Ducati at the season finale in Valencia.
2007 Season Summary
* On March 10, 2007, at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar, Stoner won the first grand prix of the season, the first ever 800cc grand prix, and had his first win in the MotoGP class[3]. Starting 2nd on the grid, Stoner was in a race-long battle with multiple champion Valentino Rossi - the Yamaha had the advantage in the corners, but Stoner's Ducati had too substantial a speed advantage on the kilometre long straight.
* On April 22, 2007, at the Istanbul Park circuit in Istanbul, Turkey, Stoner won the 2nd Race of his MotoGP career by coasting to victory over Spains Toni Elias by nearly 7 seconds with teammate Loris Capirossi finishing 3rd.
* On 6 May 2007, at the Shanghai International Circuit in China, Stoner made it back to back victories for the first time in his MotoGP career, and his 3rd win from 4 GP's this season by beating once again 7 time world champion Valentino Rossi into 2nd place. John Hopkins completed the podium on his Suzuki. [4].
* On 20 May 2007, at the Bugatti Circuit Le Mans in France, Casey rode an impressive ride in torrential rain to 3rd place, behind eventual winner and countryman Chris Vermeulen, with Italian Marco Melandri in 2nd Place. Up until this point, the ride had been described by many media members as Stoner's best ride in MotoGP. The 3rd placing also extended Stoner's title lead to 21 points over Rossi.
* On 3 June 2007, at the Mugello Circuit (Autodromo Internazionale di Mugello) in Italy, Stoner rode to a strong 4th place, being pipped on the finish line for 3rd by Alex Barros, also riding a GP7 Ducati for satellite team D'Antin Ducati. The GP was won by Valentino Rossi who cut Stoner's title lead to just 9 points, with Dani Pedrosa placing 2nd.
* On 10 June 2007, at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Stoner took his 4th win of the season, beating out Valentino Rossi by 0.069sec in a thrilling race-long battle in which Rossi exerted maximum pressure on Stoner throughout the GP. Rossi went on to finish 2nd and Spaniard Dani Pedrosa rounded out the rostrum at his home GP.[5].
* On 24 June 2007, at the Donington Park Circuit in Britain, Stoner won back to back for the 2nd time this season, and his 5th victory in 8 races in an utterly dominant performance winning by 11.768 seconds from Colin Edwards, with fellow Australian Chris Vermeulen rounding out the podium.
Personal life
Stoner met Adriana Tuchyna from Slovakia when she approached him at Philip Island in 2003 and got him to sign his autograph on her stomach. They started dating in 2005 when she turned 16, and married in Adelaide on January the 6th,2007.
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