Casey Stoner returns to Motegi - the track where he clinched the 2007 MotoGP World Championship, and lost the 2008 title - looking to continue a perfect start to the 2009 season in Qatar two weeks ago.
Stoner finished second to Rossi by just under two-seconds at Motegi last year and took a championship-clinching sixth during the wet/dry 2007 event, but failed to reach the flag in both 2004 and 2006.
“I’ve finished on the podium in every class at Motegi [2nd in 2003 in 125, 3rd in 2005 in 250 and 2nd in 2008 in MotoGP] but there have been other times when things haven’t gone so well,” said Stoner.
“We haven’t tested here in pre-season whereas we had in Qatar, so we’ll see how we get on starting from zero, with less practice time available,” confirmed Casey. “I’m fairly confident, the set-up we found in testing has worked well at different kinds of circuits so we should have a decent base setting to work from at Motegi.
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