1. Casey Joel Stoner was born on 16 October 1985 and is an Australian retired professional motorcycle racer, and a two-time MotoGP World Champion, in 2007 and 2011.
73 Facts About Casey Stoner
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Casey Stoner had a strong start to the 2009 season but had to miss three races due to Chronic fatigue syndrome.
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In 2010, Ducati failed to challenge Yamaha and Honda until very late in the season, when Casey Stoner went out on a winning note, winning three races.
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Casey Stoner was the winner of his home Grand Prix of Australia on six consecutive occasions between 2007 and 2012.
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Casey Stoner rounded off his MotoGP career with a remarkable sixth consecutive win in his home Grand Prix at Phillip Island and with a podium in his final race.
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Casey Stoner served as a test and development rider for former team Ducati from 2016 to 2018.
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From 2000 to 2002, Casey Stoner contested the national 125cc GP championships in Britain and Spain, winning the English 125cc Aprilia Championship in 2000, before moving full-time to the 250cc GP World Championships in 2002.
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In 2005, Casey Stoner rejoined the 250cc world championship class, racing for Lucio Cecchinello's team on a works Aprilia.
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Casey 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.
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Casey Stoner went on to claim a solid second place in the overall championship standings, with an impressive five race victories for the season.
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However, in December 2005, Casey Stoner re-signed with Cecchinello's team after Honda Pons failed to secure sponsorship for the upcoming season.
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Casey Stoner finished in 8th position in the championship, with his best result being a second place at the Turkish Grand Prix.
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Casey Stoner was leading the race until he was overtaken on the final corner by Marco Melandri.
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Casey Stoner secured a ride with the Factory Ducati Team for the 2007 season, joining Loris Capirossi on the new 800cc Ducati Desmosedici GP7.
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Casey Stoner started off his Ducati career on a high note with a first premier-class win in the Qatar opener, after a tense battle with Valentino Rossi.
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Casey Stoner took ten race wins and six pole positions, took him to his first GP title, by a margin of 125 points over Dani Pedrosa, which he built during the second half of the season.
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Casey Stoner's worst finish was a 6th place at Motegi, which was all he needed to clinch the title that day, taking the first premier class title for an Italian or a non-Japanese manufacturer since Phil Read's title for MV Agusta in 1974.
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Casey Stoner was named Young Australian of the Year for his 2007 performance.
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Casey Stoner opened the 2008 season with a victory at Qatar, before a run of two races without a podium.
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Casey Stoner returned to the podium with a second place at Mugello, before starting a run of seven successive pole positions.
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Casey Stoner finished the 2008 season with six wins and was runner-up to Rossi with 280 points, the highest number of points ever gained without taking the title at the time.
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Casey Stoner remained with Ducati for the 2009 season with new teammate Nicky Hayden, with a further option for a 4th season in 2010.
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Casey Stoner was initially diagnosed with anaemia and an inflammation of the stomach lining.
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Casey Stoner later disputed the diagnosis and, after continuing to struggle with the condition, he announced on 10 August 2009 that he would miss rounds 11,12 and 13 in Brno, Indianapolis and Misano, respectively, in an attempt to recover from the illness, he was diagnosed as lactose intolerant.
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Casey Stoner returned to racing late in the 2009 season, placing second in the Portuguese Grand Prix and an emphatic first in the Australian Grand Prix, which he led throughout.
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At interview following the Australian Grand Prix, Casey Stoner said that he experienced none of the premature tiredness that had dogged him earlier in the 2009 season.
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Casey Stoner followed this up with another first place in the wet at the Malaysian Grand Prix.
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At the last round of 2009 at Valencia, Casey Stoner dominated all practice and qualifying sessions to take pole, only to crash on cold tyres on the warm-up lap and miss the race.
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Casey Stoner ended the season with four victories, and eight podiums in total, leading to a fourth-place finish in the riders' championship.
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At the test held immediately following the Valencia round, Casey Stoner was fastest while testing the new 2010 version of the Desmosedici.
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Casey Stoner crashed out of round 3 at Le Mans, this time attributing the crash to the front of the bike unloading when not running at maximum pace.
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Casey Stoner eventually finished fourth in the riders' championship .
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For 2011, Casey Stoner joined Honda Racing Corporation after four years at Ducati Corse, where he was replaced by Valentino Rossi.
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Casey Stoner raced with the Repsol Honda Racing Team in 2011, with teammates Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso.
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In preseason testing in Malaysia, Casey Stoner was quickest in all three sessions, closely followed by Pedrosa and reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo.
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Casey Stoner won the season-opening race in Qatar from pole position, and had been quickest in each of the free practice sessions held before qualifying.
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Casey Stoner took pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix, but had been running second behind Marco Simoncelli in wet conditions.
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Casey Stoner won three out of the first five rounds of the season, with victories in Le Mans and Catalunya to add to his Qatar victory.
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Casey Stoner added victories at Silverstone in damp conditions, and Laguna Seca, to hold a 20-point lead over Jorge Lorenzo with eight races to go in the season.
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Casey Stoner won the World Championship for the second time at his home round at Phillip Island, Australia.
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On his 26th birthday, Casey Stoner won his ninth race of the season from his eleventh pole, and with his only challenger Jorge Lorenzo ruled out of the race due to a hand injury suffered in warm-up, Casey Stoner finished the weekend with an unassailable 65-point lead.
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Casey Stoner was the only rider other than Marc Marquez or Lorenzo in the premier class to have won the championship in the 2010s.
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Casey Stoner started the season with wins at Jerez, and Estoril, both tracks he had not won a MotoGP race at before; his victory in Estoril allowed him to take the championship lead.
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Casey Stoner won the Dutch TT at Assen to move back level on points with Lorenzo, who was taken out by Alvaro Bautista on the first lap.
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Casey Stoner finished only eighth at the Italian Grand Prix after running off-circuit, later describing that he was "not comfortable" on the bike, but followed that up with a fourth win of the season at Laguna Seca.
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At the next race, Casey Stoner crashed heavily during the qualifying session for the Indianapolis Grand Prix, suffering torn ligaments in his ankle but was declared fit to race the following day.
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Casey Stoner finished fourth in the race, 2.5 seconds behind third-placed Andrea Dovizioso.
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Casey Stoner then elected to have surgery on his ankle, ruling him out of action for three races which essentially put him out of contention for the championship.
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On 17 May 2012, during the pre-event press conference at the French Grand Prix, Casey Stoner announced that he would retire from MotoGP at the end of the 2012 season.
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Casey Stoner stated that he no longer enjoyed competing in the series, which was one of the contributing factors to his retirement.
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Casey Stoner showed signs of feeling under-appreciated by the general public.
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Casey Stoner was angered by consistent suggestions that the bike and tyres had a bigger role in his success than he did, and unhappy at being booed at Donington in 2007 and 2008.
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Casey Stoner has stated that he would prefer to shun the limelight and let his riding style do the talking.
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The rumours intensified when V8 Supercars team Triple Eight Race Engineering announced that Red Bull; a long-term sponsor of Casey Stoner, would be the major sponsor of the team from 2013 onwards, replacing Vodafone.
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On 27 February 2013, two days before his debut at the Adelaide Street Circuit, Casey Stoner unveiled his car, sponsored by Red Bull and Pirtek.
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Casey Stoner finished the season 18th in the standings with 704 points.
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In 2013, Casey Stoner signed with Honda as a test rider to aid in the development of new machinery on a limited basis through to the end of the 2014 season.
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Casey Stoner renewed his contract again in 2015 for another season of test riding through to January 1,2016.
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Casey Stoner's teammates were World Superbike rider Michael van der Mark and MFJ All Japan Road Race JSB100 Championship and HRC test rider Takumi Takahashi.
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Casey Stoner suffered a broken right scapula and a fractured left tibia as a result of the accident.
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Casey Stoner offered to fill in for Pedrosa for these two events.
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However, HRC Vice President Shuhei Nakamoto and Repsol Honda team manager Livio Suppo decided against using Stoner because they did not have a motorcycle specifically set up for Casey, they said that Casey was unfamiliar with Circuit of the Americas and Autodromo Termas de Rio Hondo and they wanted him to be as competitive as possible.
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In 2016 Casey Stoner returned to the Ducati Corse Team as a test rider for the 2016 MotoGP season, ending his five-year tenure with Honda.
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Casey Stoner participated in the official pre-season tests at Malaysia and was the fastest Ducati rider on the grid.
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Casey Stoner finished the final day of testing with the 5th-best time overall.
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Casey Stoner was named the 2008 Young Australian of the Year for his 2007 MotoGP performance.
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Casey Stoner met Adriana Tuchyna from Adelaide when she approached him at Phillip Island in 2003 and asked him to sign her stomach.
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At the Czech Republic Grand Prix in August 2011, Casey Stoner announced that his wife was pregnant with their first child.
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Casey Stoner wore sponsored protective gear from Spidi between 2002 and 2005, and Alpinestars between 2006 and 2012.
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In 2019, Casey Stoner revealed he was living with chronic fatigue syndrome, known as myalgic encephalomyelitis.
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Casey Stoner described laying on the motorhome floor between sessions being massively depressed, "wanting to die", and being afraid he would let his team down if he did not win every race.
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Casey Stoner revealed that he got aware and better at 'managing' his condition as he got older.
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Casey Stoner suspected a link between his mental health crises and the chronic fatigue that developed during his career, although a formal link had yet to be medically evidenced.