Casey Stoner behind the scenes

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Speaking to shell.com/ducati, Casey Stoner said:

Race Preparation

For myself, its just about trying to stay at quiet as possible. I think a lot of people like to have the more people around them to take their concentration away from it, the better it is. I take my meetings seriously, but at the same time Im not I dont psych myself up all the time. I think that happens just before the session, I work as well as I can with the technicians and I think its, basically just before I go out each session that I start to really focus on the job at hand. Until that time, we do the best job we can.




Favourite MotoGP Circuits
I think Phillip Island would have to be my favourite now. But theres also a couple more that I like, Mugello and Brno. And basically the characteristics of these three circuits are very flowing, very wide-open tracks and especially when were on a MotoGP bike, going as fast as we are. Its very nice to be able to open the throttle as hard as we can on these circuits, and really get flowing. Some of the other circuits are a little bit too small and too tight. With these circuits and the bigger bikes its a lot of fun. New circuits for me are always exciting, I think a lot of other riders take a lot longer to become accustomed with a circuit, and it doesnt take me very long to understand where the braking points things like that are. Youve just got to take the time in the practice sessions to concentrate on areas that youre struggling with, because otherwise on a new track youll have areas that you wont feel confident, and theyre the ones to concentrate on.

On the road
The best road bike, my most memorable one was the (Ducati) 998 that I rode first time with my wife on the back. And also, I suppose the Hypermotard I enjoy a lot.

Biking Heroes

I have a few, but the one that stands out to me is Mick Doohan. Basically because of what he came back from. His determination to come back from an injury and win five championships in a row when everyone had basically discarded him from racing. And I think this took a lot of guts and a lot of passion for the sport to be able to do this. He was the rider that was when I was old enough to start watching and realising what was happening he was a rider that I was watching.

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