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In his first year with the Repsol Honda Team, the Australian rider recovered his most dominant version to win again the title of the premiere category
The Australian of the Repsol Honda Team, Casey Stoner, just won the MotoGP World Championship at the Australian circuit of Phillip Island. Today, Sunday and the day he turns 26, in front of his fans and at his home race, Casey Stoner achieved the highest Motorcycling World Championship title for the second time in his sporting career, thus completing a brilliant season in his first year with the Repsol Honda Team.
After dominating both practice days, the Repsol Honda rider only needed to finish sixth to be crowned as World Champion, as a huge crash of his rival for the title, Jorge Lorenzo at the end of today’s warm-up prevented him to be at the start, so the Australian only needed to gather the points of the sixth position to close with the World Championship a nearly perfect season. Stoner reached the finish line in first position, winning the world title in his first season with the official HRC team and with the Spanish energy company livery.
Stoner completed a superb season, where he did not give any chance to his rivals and was only once out of the podium, in Jerez, when he was hit by Valentino Rossi during the first laps of the race. The Repsol rider adapted himself perfectly to the Honda RC212V, doing a historic season that showed once again the impressive talent of the fastest Aussie in the planet.
Casey Stoner’s numbers
-2011 MotoGP World Champion
-Victories in 2011:9
-Poles positions in 2011: 11
-Podiums in 2011: 15
-First race: 1989 (Started in dirt track and longtrack).
-First Grand Prix: 2001 British GP (125cc)
-First Pole position: 2003 Italian GP (125cc)
-First fastest lap: 2003 Catalunya GP (125cc)
-First podium: 2003 German GP (125cc)
-First victory: 2003 Valencia GP (125cc)
-World Championships: 2 (MotoGP in 2007 and 2011)
-Total Grand Prix: 160 (30 in 125cc, 31 in 250cc and 99 in MotoGP)
-Poles: 37 (2 in 125cc, 2 in 250cc and 33 in MotoGP)
-Podiums: 78 (10 in 125cc, 10 in 250cc and 58 in MotoGP)
-Victories: 39 (2 in 125cc, 5 in 250cc and 32 in MotoGP)
