Why stoner retired

In Stoner once again won more than half the races to win his second MotoGP title. Stoner made an excellent start to his title defence in , winning two of the first three races to lead the points chase.

And then on the eve of the fourth race he dropped the bombshell. During the pre-event press conference at Le Mans the year-old announced he would retire at the end of the season, at the peak of his career. Casey and Adriana recently celebrated 14 years of marriage. During the next seasons following his retirement the media came alive every few months with rumours of a Stoner comeback. The Aussie was second in Japan, behind Valentino Rossi, in But there was no comeback.

At the end of MotoGP banned Moto2 and Moto3 riders from using campervans in the paddock, to make room for more corporate hospitality units. Overnight the paddock was transformed, from a bustling global village to glitzy marketing mall. At the same time MotoGP technical regulations were rewritten to allow motorcycles powered by superbike engines onto the grid.

Stoner ended that year with a win in Valencia, ahead of Pedrosa 2. MotoGP prototypes also underwent changes to narrow the performance gap between the different factories. Stoner believed this handicapped the cleverest engineers, thereby tainting the purity of grand prix racing. All the bikes are basically clones of each other, which is why they run so close together. Stoner has never been afraid to speak his mind, most famously when Rossi wiped him out at Jerez in Probably the hottest burn in MotoGP history.

With the duo facing off on equal machinery over a season it would have only heightened the interest and power play within the Honda camp. Would Stoner have been uprooted by the arrival of Marquez at Honda and preferred a return to Ducati in , as he did briefly as test rider after retiring?

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Anonymous Register Log In. Languages English Bahasa Indonesia. Haydn Cobb. Casey Stoner, Marc Marquez,. Follow Crash. Latest Articles. The Australian was spotted returning to work in MotoGP for the first time this weekend at the Algarve Grand Prix in Portugal and held a special press conference to address his three-year disappearance from the sport.

I always used to jog just about everywhere but now I have to walk. New to Kayo? He has previously revealed details about his ongoing health battle, which was first diagnosed successfully in Stoner, who retired from MotoGP in , had returned to work in MotoGP as a development rider for Ducati in before being forced to walk away again as a result of his illness. This was my whole world for a lot of years.

From bed to the couch was my exercise for the day. Physically, massively.