Top ten MotoGP stars: Casey Stoner [2].
mahbx.com recently🐟 asked for your MotoGP star of 2008, from a shortlist of ten riders provided, and - with voting having now closed - the time has come to reveal the🔯 results.
During the next ten weekdays, we will be revealing the voting results in reverse order, with the winner being revealed tomorrow (Wednesday De💯cember 3).
More than 54,000 votes were cast forཧ the MotoGP poll. The average score given for each rider was used to produce the final ranking.
MotoGP Star of the Year - second place:
mahbx.com recently asked for your MotoGP star of 2008, from a shortlist of ten riders provided, and - with🏅 votiꦰng having now closed - the time has come to reveal the results.
During the next ten weekdays, we will be revealing the voting results in reverse order, with the winner being revealed tomorrow (Wednesday Dec🍸ember 3).
More than 54,000 votes were cast for the MotoGP poll. Thꦗe average score g🍨iven for each rider was used to produce the final ranking.
MotoGP Star of the Year - second place:
Name: Casey StonerTeam: Ducati MarlboroBike: Ducati Desmosedici GP8Wins: 6Podiums: 11Pole Positions: 9Fastest laps: 9Championship points: 280Championship position: 2nd
Two successive falls from the lead may have ended Casey Stoner's realistic hopes🐽 of retaining his MotoGP crown in 2008, but the young Australian's incredible speed - and unique ability to master the Desmosedici GP8 - was recognised with second place in your MotoGP Star of the Year⛎ vote.
The 2007 world champion 𒐪won the first and last races of this season, plus four other victories to finish the year runner-up to Valentino Rossi, whom Stꦐoner notably lost out to during a thrilling US GP battle - then fell whilst leading at the next two rounds.
After winning the first ever MotoGP night race at Qatar, Stoner had taken just one 🐠podium from the next four rounds, leaving him 41 points behind Rossi. However, technical changes prompted a seemingly unstoppable fight-back that took 🃏Stoner to within 20 points of Rossi heading into the pivotal Laguna Seca race.
After his double disaster at Brno and Misano, Stoner - by now diagnosed with a wrist injury - returned to the podium at round 14 in Japan. Stoner then won in front of his home fans at Phillip Island before handing Ducati second place in the constructors' championship with♋ victory over home he♎ro Dani Pedrosa at Valencia.
Stoner was the only Ducati rider to win a race in 2008 and claimed all but two of the Desmosedici's 2008 podiums. Casey's nine pole positions and nine fastest laps were more than a🍷ny other rider and he outscored beleaguered team-mate Marco Melandri, himself a former MotoGP World Championship runner-up, by a huge 229 points.
The next best Ducati rider after Stoner was Alice's Toni Elias, who scored 188 points less than the Australian and finished just twel🐷fth in the world championship.
2nd - Casey Stoner3rd - Jorge Lorenzo4th - Andrea Dovizioso5th - Nicky Hayden6th - Dani Pedrosa7th - James Toseland8th - Colin Edwards9th - Toni Elias10th - Alex de Angelis
Tomorrow: We reach number one in the MotoGP Star of the Year poll.
🐼Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and༒ Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
