Australia's new MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner has arrived
in Australia after last weekend's Japanese Grand Prix.
Stoner has been confirmed as this year's champion with three
rounds still to race after finishing ahead of former world champion
Valentino Rossi in Motegi.
The next round of the MotoGP competition is a fairytale return to
the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island and Stoner says it will
be an emotional day for him.
"Now that the championship's finished, we've got to concentrate
on winning a few more races, and you know home GP is number
one at the moment," he said. "But it's definitely going to be hard
work again. We struggled a little bit last weekend and ... we
seemed alright in testing at the beginning of the week, we should
be alright."
Stoner says he has been thinking about being crowned as world
champion for a long time. "We've been working towards this for a
lot of years," he said. "So it's not just something that's just come
on in one big bang, and we've kind of been expecting it for the
past few races so we understand what it is." abc.net.au
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