Casey Stoner

yeah but it wont be from stoner
i think nicky

I really hope Stoner is up to pace next year, I want to see more of the Laguna battles between him and Vale!

Casey Stoner reveals small op complication
By Matthew Birt

MotoGP

01 December 2008 11:42


Former world champion Casey Stoner has revealed his recent wrist operation was hit by a small complication as he continues his long and slow rehabilitation.

The Aussie, who was a surprise visitor to last week’s Jerez test, is currently recuperating from a bone graft operation he needed to repair a troublesome scaphoid injury that flared up last season.

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Stoner’s operation should have taken two hours, but in fact took double the time after the complication, which saw a drilling tool break off.

The factory Ducati rider told MCN: “They took the bone from my right hip, only about a centimetre piece because the scaphoid is a very small bone. I’m not sure how long the operation took but there was a very small complication where a tool broke off, so they had to get that out.

"I’m told it is quite normal when they are drilling. I think it took about four hours. It should have taken around two but it ended up taking four hours. And now the most frustrating thing is the recovery is very much a slow process.”

Read all about Stoner’s recovery and get all the news from the Jerez test in this week’s MCN, out on Wednesday, December 3.

MotoGP » Guintoli: Stoner understood something we didn't!
Monday, 8th December 2008

Sylvain Guintoli gives credit to Casey Stoner; believes four-stroke replacement for 250GP is a good idea.


Former Alice Ducati MotoGP rider Sylvain Guintoli has refused to blame the Italian factory for his tough 2008 season, and credits Ducati's 2007 world champion Casey Stoner for his success with the Desmosedici.

Guintoli, who will move to BSB next season, took a best finish of sixth on his way to 13th in the 2008 MotoGP World Championship - his second year in the premier grand prix class - while factory star Stoner claimed six wins, eleven podiums, nine poles and nine fastest laps on his way to second position.

But Sylvain was far from the only rider to struggle with the GP8 - Stoner's factory team-mate Marco Melandri took a best finish of just fifth and was only 17th in the championship.

Guintoli's team-mate Toni Elias was the only other Ducati rider to finish on the podium this season, twice, but the Spaniard's next best result outside of that was only seventh. Previously, during Stoner's title winning season, MotoGP veterans Loris Capirossi and Alex Barros had also failed to replicate the young Australian's excellent results.

Elias recently criticised the level of support from Ducati this year, but - during a special Q&A with Crash.net viewers - Guintoli flatly refused to blame the Italian factory and gave Stoner credit for understanding 'something about his bike that lots of riders can't'.

"Everyone in MotoGP relies a lot on electronics," said Guintoli, in answer to a question about the amount of electronics used by Stoner. "Casey is fast first because he is very talented and second because he obviously understood something about his bike that lots of other riders can't (me included!). More traction control doesn't make faster lap times; it's all a question of balance and confidence of the rider."

Looking at his own future Guintoli, who doesn't believe "anyone is gifted a GP ride without being worthy of it", insists that his switch to BSB will make him stronger.

"BSB is a very strong championship, and so I believe that should I go to WSBK or back to GP in the future, I will be a stronger rider because of my BSB experience," said Sylvain, who will ride for 2004 BSB champion's Crescent Suzuki.

As well as two seasons in MotoGP, Guintoli also spent five years in the 250cc World Championship, taking a best championship placing of ninth (2006) and a best race finish of third (2003).

The 250cc two-stroke class will be replaced by 600cc four-stroke machines from 2011, something Guintoli thinks is a good move.

"It's a good change. Different constructors will take part and I think 'Junior Teams' will start to appear," he said.

On the question of how MotoGP could be made more exciting, Guintoli stated that "the [single] tyre rule might help."

Paddock Press: Roberts on Stoner´s 2008 season
Thursday, 25 December 2008

Casey Stoner goes under the spotlight in the latest journalist review.


The Paddock Press series turns its focus to the runner-up in the 2008 season, as BBC pitlane reporter Matthew Roberts looks back over Casey Stoner´s title-defending year. Stoner may have come up short in his second season with Ducati, but British journalist Roberts believes that the season has been far from a write-off for the 2007 MotoGP World Champion.

`To get first and then second over two years in MotoGP is an outstanding achievement,´ he says in the accompanying video. `Far from being a disappointment this year losing the title, I think that it´s been a real success, and Casey will look back on it that way too.´

Casey Stoner
PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME: CASEY STONER
TEAM: DUCATI MARLBORO TEAM
NATIONALITY: AUSTRALIAN
DATE OF BIRTH: 16/10/1985
MARRIED: SINGLE. (Should this say he is married)



Casey Stoner stunned the MotoGP paddock by storming to victory, on his Ducati debut, at the 2007 Qatar season opener - and his rivals arguably never recovered.

By the end of only his second season in MotoGP, Stoner and his powerful Desmosedici had won 10 races, taken 14 podiums and lifted his and Ducati's first world title with a season's worst sixth place at the wet/dry Japanese Grand Prix, round 15 of 18.

The 22-year-old's faultless 2007 performances - when he finished every race - were in complete contrast to his rookie 2006 season, when he failed to finish seven GPs for the satellite Honda LCR team.

Stoner had hinted at his future stardom by finishing sixth in his first ever premier-class race - despite missing the final pre-season tests due to surgery - then took pole position next time out and a debut podium, just 0.2secs behind race winner Marco Melandri, in his third ever MotoGP race.

Unfortunately for Casey, that second place marked his first and last podium of the 2006 season, with accidents dropping him steadily down the championship standings to eighth by the season's end.

Despite his 'incidents', Lucio Cecchinello had hoped to retain Stoner for a second season, but Casey was chasing a factory ride and - while negotiations with Yamaha broke down early - his raw speed was enough to convince Ducati to take the considerable gamble of signing him over the experienced Sete Gibernau, a double MotoGP World Championship runner-up.

Stoner was thus partnered with Loris Capirossi for the first season of 800cc racing and the rest is history. With Ducati legend Capirossi completely overshadowed by the Australian, taking only one win, Loris will be replaced by fellow Italian Marco Melandri for 2008 - when Stoner will proudly ride with the #1 plate.

Casey and his family's commitment to achieving his goal of a world championship is hard to fault. After uprooting themselves from their native Kurri-Kurri on Australia's idyllic Gold Coast, they spent time in Britain establishing Stoner as a European name. After dominating Aussie dirt bike riding as a kid, they knew Europe was the place to be to further his career. It was a risk as well as a sacrifice - and the gamble paid off.

In 2001 Stoner finished second overall in two highly regarded championships, the Spanish and British 125cc series, and it from here that he continued to shine as a rider when the careers of many other hopefuls have stalled. Then Cecchinello stepped in to guide him, recruiting him to his Aprilia 250 squad for 2002 where he finished 12th overall in his first full GP season, took a debut win in his second season - after switching to the 125cc class - before taking another 125cc win the following year, for the factory KTM team.

A switch back to Cecchinello, Aprilia and 250cc for 2005 yielded five wins and second in the championship behind Dani Pedrosa - enough to convince Honda to hand him a satellite RC211V for 2006.


Career highlights:

1989 & 1999: 41 wins in Australian dirt bike Championships
2000: 1st British Aprilia RS 125 Challenge
2001: 2nd Spanish 125cc Championship, 2nd British 125cc Championship
2002: 12th 250cc World Championship Aprilia
2003: 8th 125cc World Championship Aprilia
2004: 5th 125cc World Championship KTM
2005: 2nd 250cc World Championship Aprilia
2006: 8th MotoGP World Championship Honda
2007: 1st MotoGP World Championship Ducati

Season in 'serious doubt' for injured Stoner
18/02/2009 8:38:00 AM.





Casey Stoner has admitted his MotoGP season is in serious doubt due to continual pain in his wrist.

The 2007 world champion says that unless the wrist improves over the next fortnight his ability to contest the series will be under a cloud.

Stoner underwent an operation on his wrist last November to repair an old injury but he says his movement is still severely hampered.

Remarkably he set the fastest lap times in the first official test series at Sepang in Malaysia recently.

But it was done under duress and Stoner said that if the problem had not improved by the time of next month's test in Qatar there would be a question mark over his year.

Last year's surgery was supposed to have resolved an ongoing schapoid problem.

Stoner is pessimistic that his condition will improve before testing resumes on March 1.

"Three months have gone by and my wrist has little mobility and hurts badly," Stoner told Motosprint. "I don't like the way this story is going at all.

"I'll try not to think about it until the test in Qatar, then we'll see. If the situation in Qatar hasn't improved radically, then it means there will be plenty to worry about.

"I just think that three months have gone by and in my opinion the situation isn't good at all.

"I say that I shouldn't be in this situation, because the bone has healed, yet it hurts me badly. That's what I can't explain.

"It's been really disappointing finding out that after three months the wrist is a lot worse than I expected."

Stoner was unable to complete long runs at Sepang and was limited in his movement through some corners.

"I try to adapt, to change the way I sit on the bike," he said.

"I make some movements to make up for the fact that the wrist barely moves and most of all it hurts me a lot under braking.

"It feels almost unreal to me that I manage to be so quick. The situation is worse than I expected.

"I say it's not normal. I didn't expect to feel great, but not this bad either."

As much as I dislike Stoner and think that he is a whining tosspot, I really hope that he does race this season. We've already lost Marco and Hopper and are down to a 17 man grid we can't afford for the grid to be any lower. And if stoner didnt race who would we have to give out about, I love the rivalry between him and Vale, it makes the racing all more interesting and it makes the victories all the more sweeter when Vale kicks Caseys ass!!!!

I want Nicky to kick his arse

i would love it for Randy to kick his ass

of course i am delusional

I'd love to see Nicky kick Casey's arse too and if Randy managed it aswell it would be great but if Randy can stay on his bike all season that would be even greater!

had to bring that up didnt you

lol

Awww poor Randy

Yes let's hope he has an incredible season and blow's everyone away with his riding skills

now who's delusional?

ROFLMAO randy LOL omg yeah ok im ROFLMAO

Hey you never know he might surprise everyone!

iftiyati wrote:Hey you never know he might surprise everyone!

so i will do a deal if randy has no crashes this year i will not talk about james again

even if randy had no crashes you wouldnt be able to not talk about james

why set yourself up for failure strudl

tammerz wrote:even if randy had no crashes you wouldnt be able to not talk about james

why set yourself up for failure strudl

i promise i will not talk about him if randy has no crash at all that means fp and quli and the race