Stoner reigns supreme at Island

... leading from start to finish at Phillip Island to take his third victory from the last four rounds of the MotoGP World Championship. Stoner has led every MotoGP lap but one at Phillip Island since 2007 and after taking pole position on Saturday and finishing 1.890 seconds quicker than his nearest rival in warm-up he was untouchable in the afternoon, crossing the line 8.598 seconds clear of Jorge Lorenzo.

Stoner celebrated his 25th birthday claiming his 25th pole position of his GP career on Saturday. Casey said, "This feels really nice. I think when I won two in a row here nobody expected me to make it three but having done that I felt there was a lot of expectation on me today. To be fair we have been going for the win at the last four races - unfortunately I slipped off on the first lap at Sepang but we've made up for that this weekend".

Source: JUST BIKES, December 2010, Issue #258