Engine
Engine : Liquid-cooled, 90 degree V4 four-stroke
Timing system : Desmodromic DOHC
Valves: Four valves per cylinder
Capacity: 799 cc
Maximum power: more than 200 HP
Maximum torque: -
Top speed: In excess of 310 kph / 192 mph
Transmission: Six-speed cassette-type gearbox, with alternative gear ratios available
Final Drive: Chain
Clutch: Dry multiplate slipper clutch
Carburation:Indirect Magneti Marelli electronic injection, four throttle bodies with injectors above butterfly valves
Ignition: Magneti Marelli
Fuel:Shell Racing V-Power
Rider
Casey Stoner
PERSONAL STATS
Born: 16 October 1985 in Southport (Australia)
Marital Status: Married with Adriana
Height: 1.70 m
Weight: 58 kg
Off-track interests: cycling, snorkelling, videogames
CAREER STATS
2008: Ducati MotoGP Team rider
2007: 1st - MotoGP World Champion (Ducati)
2006: 8th - MotoGP World Championship (Honda)
2005: 2nd - 250 World Championship (Aprilia)
2004: 5th - 125 World Championship (KTM)
2003: 8th - 125 World Championship (Aprilia)
2002: 12th - 250 World Championship (Aprilia)
2001: 2nd - 125 UK Championship (Honda)
2001: 2nd - 125 Spanish Championship (Honda)
2000: Aprilia Challenge UK Champion (Aprilia)
1989-99: winner of 41 titles of dirt track and long track in Australia
BIOGRAPHY
As a toddler Casey Stoner displayed a passion and talent for motorbike riding that was extraordinary, even by the standards of his bike-mad family. By the age of three he'd already graduated from pushing his older sister's (Kelly) 50cc Peewee around the yard to taking his first ride on his own.
At four years of age Casey competed in his first race in the under 9s category at the Hatchers dirt racing track on the Gold Coast. By the age of six he had won his first Australia title. Many, many hours of riding, travelling and long nights working on bikes followed. Between the ages of 6 and 14 Casey raced all over Australia, travelling with his father (Colin), mother (Bronwyn) and sister (Kelly) In that time Casey won 41 Australian dirt and long track titles and over 70 State titles, riding up to 5 bikes at a meeting in different capacity categories.
When he was twelve Casey raced the Australian Long Track Titles on the NSW Central Coast in 5 different categories with seven rounds in each capacity; a total of 35 races over the one weekend! He won 32 out of those 35 races and took five out of five Australian titles in the one meet.
Just after his 14th birthday Casey and his parents decided to make the move overseas and packed up and headed to England to start his road racing career. Casey could not legally road race in Australia until he was 16, but had decided he was ready for the challenge. So the decision was made to move to England where Casey was already of legal age to race.
A big risk to take, but it paid off. Casey was lucky enough and talented enough to attract immediate sponsorship after just one race in England. He went on to take out the English 125cc Aprilia Championship in 2000, in his first year of road racing. In that year he also raced two rounds of the Spanish 125cc Championship. It was there he was noticed by GP great Alberto Puig. Alberto was impressed by Casey's determination and skill and invited him to race for the Telefonica Movistar Team in the 125cc Spanish Championships the next year.
In 2001 Casey raced in both the English and Spanish championships in the same year. Despite missing some English races due to clashes with Spanish rounds, he still managed to come second in both championships. In that same year he was also granted wildcard entries into the MotoGP 125cc world series, in both England and Australia. He placed 18th and 12th respectively and as a result was offered a ride in the Grand Prix world series the next year for the Safilo Oxydo LCR team.
Straight onto a 250cc machine in his rookie year, and at only 16 years of age, Casey demonstrated his ability and speed with results. His best result for the year was a 5th at Brno as well as several 6th place finishes. In 2003 he went on to ride for Lucio and Safilo Oxydo LCR in the 125cc GP series and took four podium finishes and his first race win, in Valencia, at the end of the season. His first win in a GP race was a huge turning point for Casey and his career. In 2004, at 18 years of age, Casey moved to KTM for a season where he helped to develop the team's 125cc bike into a winning machine. That year he made it to the podium six times and took KTM's first ever win in a GP class. 2005 saw Casey once again come back under the welcoming umbrella of Lucio Cecchinello's team, this time riding an official 250cc Aprilia. He spent 2005 battling it out with Dani Pedrosa for the championship, visiting the podium ten times in the process and taking wins in Portugal, Shanghai, Qatar, Sepang, and Istanbul.
Finally in 2006, at twenty years of age, Casey accomplished his long held ambition of racing in MotoGP, the fastest and most prestigious of the classes. He set pole position in his second MotoGP race in Qatar and battled for the win until the final corner in the GP of Turkey, finishing runner-up just a fraction behind winner Melandri. Too many errors conditioned the second part of the year, but Casey, in finishing eighth overall in his rookie MotoGP season, demonstrated that he was in amongst the elite group, of which he is the youngest rider.
In 2007 Casey Stoner has joined the Ducati MotoGP Team alongside Loris Capirossi, with whom he has struck up a good friendship. In winter testing he has often been amongst the pacesetters and has proved to have rapidly adapted to the Desmosedici GP7 and Bridgestone tyres. On March 10, 2007, at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar, Stoner won the first grand prix of the season, the first ever 800cc grand prix, and had his first win in the MotoGP class. After that the young Australian took other nine wins, four further podium finished and scored five pole positions. On September 23rd, in Japan, Stoner secured Ducati’s first MotoGP World Championship becoming the first rider in over 30 years to win the MotoGP title on a European made bike and the second youngest premier-class World Champion, after American legend Freddie Spencer who won his title in 1983, and at the time was 84 days younger than the 21 year old Stoner.
As a toddler Casey Stoner displayed a passion and talent for motorbike riding that was extraordinary, even by the standards of his bike-mad family. By the age of three he'd already graduated from pushing his older sister's (Kelly) 50cc Peewee around the yard to taking his first ride on his own.
At four years of age Casey competed in his first race in the under 9s category at the Hatchers dirt racing track on the Gold Coast. By the age of six he had won his first Australia title. Many, many hours of riding, travelling and long nights working on bikes followed. Between the ages of 6 and 14 Casey raced all over Australia, travelling with his father (Colin), mother (Bronwyn) and sister (Kelly) In that time Casey won 41 Australian dirt and long track titles and over 70 State titles, riding up to 5 bikes at a meeting in different capacity categories.
When he was twelve Casey raced the Australian Long Track Titles on the NSW Central Coast in 5 different categories with seven rounds in each capacity; a total of 35 races over the one weekend! He won 32 out of those 35 races and took five out of five Australian titles in the one meet.
Just after his 14th birthday Casey and his parents decided to make the move overseas and packed up and headed to England to start his road racing career. Casey could not legally road race in Australia until he was 16, but had decided he was ready for the challenge. So the decision was made to move to England where Casey was already of legal age to race.
A big risk to take, but it paid off. Casey was lucky enough and talented enough to attract immediate sponsorship after just one race in England. He went on to take out the English 125cc Aprilia Championship in 2000, in his first year of road racing. In that year he also raced two rounds of the Spanish 125cc Championship. It was there he was noticed by GP great Alberto Puig. Alberto was impressed by Casey's determination and skill and invited him to race for the Telefonica Movistar Team in the 125cc Spanish Championships the next year.
In 2001 Casey raced in both the English and Spanish championships in the same year. Despite missing some English races due to clashes with Spanish rounds, he still managed to come second in both championships. In that same year he was also granted wildcard entries into the MotoGP 125cc world series, in both England and Australia. He placed 18th and 12th respectively and as a result was offered a ride in the Grand Prix world series the next year for the Safilo Oxydo LCR team.
Straight onto a 250cc machine in his rookie year, and at only 16 years of age, Casey demonstrated his ability and speed with results. His best result for the year was a 5th at Brno as well as several 6th place finishes. In 2003 he went on to ride for Lucio and Safilo Oxydo LCR in the 125cc GP series and took four podium finishes and his first race win, in Valencia, at the end of the season. His first win in a GP race was a huge turning point for Casey and his career. In 2004, at 18 years of age, Casey moved to KTM for a season where he helped to develop the team's 125cc bike into a winning machine. That year he made it to the podium six times and took KTM's first ever win in a GP class. 2005 saw Casey once again come back under the welcoming umbrella of Lucio Cecchinello's team, this time riding an official 250cc Aprilia. He spent 2005 battling it out with Dani Pedrosa for the championship, visiting the podium ten times in the process and taking wins in Portugal, Shanghai, Qatar, Sepang, and Istanbul.
Finally in 2006, at twenty years of age, Casey accomplished his long held ambition of racing in MotoGP, the fastest and most prestigious of the classes. He set pole position in his second MotoGP race in Qatar and battled for the win until the final corner in the GP of Turkey, finishing runner-up just a fraction behind winner Melandri. Too many errors conditioned the second part of the year, but Casey, in finishing eighth overall in his rookie MotoGP season, demonstrated that he was in amongst the elite group, of which he is the youngest rider.
In 2007 Casey Stoner has joined the Ducati MotoGP Team alongside Loris Capirossi, with whom he has struck up a good friendship. In winter testing he has often been amongst the pacesetters and has proved to have rapidly adapted to the Desmosedici GP7 and Bridgestone tyres. On March 10, 2007, at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar, Stoner won the first grand prix of the season, the first ever 800cc grand prix, and had his first win in the MotoGP class. After that the young Australian took other nine wins, four further podium finished and scored five pole positions. On September 23rd, in Japan, Stoner secured Ducati’s first MotoGP World Championship becoming the first rider in over 30 years to win the MotoGP title on a European made bike and the second youngest premier-class World Champion, after American legend Freddie Spencer who won his title in 1983, and at the time was 84 days younger than the 21 year old Stoner.
Rider
MARCO MELANDRI
PERSONAL STATS
Born: 7 August 1982 Ravenna (Italy)
CAREER STATS
2008: Ducati MotoGP Team Rider
2007: 5th MotoGP World Championship (Honda)
2006: 4th MotoGP World Championship (Honda)
2005: 2nd MotoGP World Championship (Honda)
2004: 12th MotoGP World Championship (Yamaha)
2003: 15th MotoGP World Championship (Yamaha)
2002: 250 World Champion (Aprilia)
2001: 3rd 250 World Championship (Aprilia)
2000: 5th 250 World Championship (Aprilia)
1999: 2nd 125 World Championship (Honda)
1998: 3rd 125 World Championship (Honda)
1997: Italian 125 Champion (Honda)
1994: Italian minibike Champion
1992: Italian minibike Champion
BIOGRAPHY
Italian hero Marco Melandri started racing minibikes at the age of eight, riding a machine given to him by his father who was a keen racer on the Italian national scene. Melandri made his GP debut seven years later at the 1997 Czech GP, just a few days after his 15th birthday. And ten months after his World Championship debut he won his first GP victory, at Assen, aged 15 years and 324 days. The man from Ravenna is still the youngest GP victor in motorcycle racing history. Since then Melandri has gone on to conquer the 250 World Championship and become one of MotoGP’s most successful riders. During the past three seasons he has always finished inside the championship top five and has won five MotoGP races, taking his GP total to 22 victories. One of the toughest riders on the grid, Melandri is a quiet man who prefers to let his riding do the talking.
Melandri came close to winning his first World Championship crown in 1999, when he was just one point away from winning the 125 title. He graduated to 250s the following season and went on to win the 250 crown in 2002, scoring no less than nine GP wins that season, including an amazing run of six consecutive victories. Melandri didn’t hang around in 250s after taking the title, preferring to move up to MotoGP in 2003. He had a tough first two seasons in the premier class, riding Yamaha machinery, though he did show real promise in scoring his first front-row starts and podium finishes in the category. Melandri’s fortunes changed dramatically when he moved to Honda in 2005. He won his first two MotoGP victories that summer – at Istanbul and Valencia – and went on to finish an impressive second overall. Throughout 2006 Melandri consolidated his status as one of MotoGP’s greatest talents, winning three more races – at Istanbul, Le Mans and Phillip Island – and revealing a remarkable ability to bounce back from injury and ill fortune. His 2006 season was marred by his involvement in a horrific turn-one accident at the Catalan GP, nonetheless he went on to finish fourth overall, just one point off third place. Melandri’s steely resolve is already legendary in a sport that has always demanded awesome physical and mental strength.
Last season Melandri began MotoGP’s new 800cc era still with Honda but using Bridgestone tyres for the first time. He scored two second-place finishes and one third to end the year fifth overall, ready for his new challenge with Italian marque Ducati. Melandri is one of MotoGP’s most popular stars and he also enjoys some fame away from the racetracks as a DJ. Melandri has worked the decks since he was a teenager and plays house and hip hop. He currently lives near Derby in the United Kingdom.
from: www.ducati.com . www.caseystoner.com. www.marcomelandri.net
Melandri came close to winning his first World Championship crown in 1999, when he was just one point away from winning the 125 title. He graduated to 250s the following season and went on to win the 250 crown in 2002, scoring no less than nine GP wins that season, including an amazing run of six consecutive victories. Melandri didn’t hang around in 250s after taking the title, preferring to move up to MotoGP in 2003. He had a tough first two seasons in the premier class, riding Yamaha machinery, though he did show real promise in scoring his first front-row starts and podium finishes in the category. Melandri’s fortunes changed dramatically when he moved to Honda in 2005. He won his first two MotoGP victories that summer – at Istanbul and Valencia – and went on to finish an impressive second overall. Throughout 2006 Melandri consolidated his status as one of MotoGP’s greatest talents, winning three more races – at Istanbul, Le Mans and Phillip Island – and revealing a remarkable ability to bounce back from injury and ill fortune. His 2006 season was marred by his involvement in a horrific turn-one accident at the Catalan GP, nonetheless he went on to finish fourth overall, just one point off third place. Melandri’s steely resolve is already legendary in a sport that has always demanded awesome physical and mental strength.
Last season Melandri began MotoGP’s new 800cc era still with Honda but using Bridgestone tyres for the first time. He scored two second-place finishes and one third to end the year fifth overall, ready for his new challenge with Italian marque Ducati. Melandri is one of MotoGP’s most popular stars and he also enjoys some fame away from the racetracks as a DJ. Melandri has worked the decks since he was a teenager and plays house and hip hop. He currently lives near Derby in the United Kingdom.
from: www.ducati.com . www.caseystoner.com. www.marcomelandri.net
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