Following my failure to get to Cheltenham races the other week (I had to attend a prestigious five-a-side netball tournament that my daughter was in), I tried to make up for it by attending my local point-to-point. For the urban among you, a point-to-point is an amateur steeplechase event that gives country Sloane Rangers the excuse to have a picnic and get very drunk. The term point-to-point …

Former MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner has admitted that sticking religiously to a diet free from lactose is proving a tough challenge ahead of the new premier class campaign. Stoner was diagnosed lactose intolerant after his 2009 MotoGP challenge was severely disrupted by a mid-season chronic fatigue issue. The problem got so severe that the [...]

Leading MotoGP riders are calling for the start time of the season opener in Qatar to be brought forward for safety reasons after several crashes in testing this week. The Losail event is scheduled to run at 11pm local time, but Casey Stoner, who was one of those to fall at Turn 2 along with [...]

SINGAPORE: Australian Casey Stoner set the quickest time in the final MotoGP test under the lights of the Losail circuit in Qatar on Friday, ending the pre-season dominance of world champion Valentino Rossi. Stoner, the 2007 world champion, steered his Ducati around the circuit in 1:55.353, less than five-hundredths of a second faster than [...]

By N.D. Prashant/Doha Australia’s Casey Stoner, who completed a hat-trick of titles at the Qatar Grand Prix last season, validated his authority over the floodlit Losail circuit by clocking the fastest lap of 1’55.353 on the final day of the last pre-season testing here on Friday night.The Ducati Marlboro rider, who had a fall [...]

Reigning seven time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi has been denied a perfect sweep of 2010 pre-season testing after losing out to Casey Stoner on the very final night of the Qatar test. The Italian had been fastest on all five previous ‘days’ – four at Sepang in Malaysia and then Thursday night in Qatar [...]

Casey Stoner, winner at Qatar for the past three seasons and the Losail race-lap record holder, had to play second best to reigning MotoGP world champion for the fifth day of pre-season testing in succession, as the Losail test began on Thursday night. The Ducati Marlboro star had been runner-up to Rossi during all four [...]

Casey Stoner, winner at Qatar for the past three seasons and the Losail race-lap record holder, had to play second best to reigning MotoGP world champion for the fifth day of pre-season testing in succession, as the Losail test began on Thursday night.The Ducati Marlboro star had been runner-up to Rossi during all four [...]

Reigning seven time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi was delighted when his perfect pre-season form carried over to Qatar on Thursday night. The Fiat Yamaha rider had been fastest on all four days of previous 2010 testing, at one of his favourite circuits of Sepang in Malaysia, but the Losail night test – traditionally a [...]

SECOND AND EIGHTH FASTEST TIMES FOR STONER AND HAYDEN ON OPENING NIGHT OF QATAR TEST Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden ended the first of two nights of testing in Qatar with the second and eighth fastest times respectively, the Ducati Marlboro Team riders working throughout a sticky evening to get their GP10 machines to grips [...]