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Australian motorcycle racers
Michael Doohan, Casey Stoner, Jack Findlay, Andrew Pitt, Anthony West, Chris Vermeulen, Troy Bayliss, Wayne Gardner, John Dodds, Kel Carruthers, Josh Brookes, Jack Ahearn, Kevin Magee, Daryl Beattie, Ken Kavanagh, Chad Reed, Mat Mladin
ISBN/EAN: 9781156038659
Umbreit-Nr.: 4339497
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 30 S.
Format in cm: 0.3 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 11.01.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
- Zusatztext
- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Chapters: Michael Doohan, Casey Stoner, Jack Findlay, Andrew Pitt, Anthony West, Chris Vermeulen, Troy Bayliss, Wayne Gardner, John Dodds, Kel Carruthers, Josh Brookes, Jack Ahearn, Kevin Magee, Daryl Beattie, Ken Kavanagh, Chad Reed, Mat Mladin, Tom Phillis, Gregg Hansford, Troy Corser, Broc Parkes, Billy McConnell, Garry McCoy, Glen Richards, Keith Campbell, Jeremy Burgess, Dean Thomas, Harry Hinton, Anthony Gobert, Karl Muggeridge, Davey Watt, Mark Willis, Cameron Donald, Steve Martin, Peter Goddard, Kevin Cass, Simon Pavey, Stefan Merriman, Jason Doyle, Craig Dack, Kirk McCarthy, Barry Smith, Andy Caldecott, Andrew McFarlane, Jeff Sayle, Bob Brown, Jamie Stauffer, Craig Anderson, Rob Phillis, Keith Bryen, Dayne Kinnaird, Jono Porter. Excerpt: Casey Stoner (born 16 October 1985) is a professional 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 Repsol Honda Team, having also competed for Team LCR and Ducati Corse since his MotoGP début in 2006. In 2008, Stoner was named Young Australian of the Year. 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. 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. 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. In 2003 Stoner moved to the 125cc GP category. Here, working again with Cecchinello and Aprilia, he met with considerable success, sc