Stoner confident ahead of penultimate round
Added on Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 by Carole Nash Editor
Stoner confident ahead of penultimate round
Ducati’s Casey Stoner claims that he is in confident mood as he looks to the final two rounds of the MotoGP season.
The Australian is in good form going into the penultimate round of the season having won three of the last four races, including the previous round in Australia, and has plenty of incentive to continue that form at Estoril this weekend.
Stoner, who will leave Ducati and move to Honda at the end of the season, currently sits in third in the championship standings – just 23 points behind next season’s teammate, Dani Pedrosa, and there is a huge incentive there to edge out the Spaniard before he makes the switch.
And whilst the 24-year-old knows that Estoril is a track that has mixed memories for him, he has expressed his confidence in his and the Ducati’s abilities going into the season’s closing stages.
“I have had a mixture of different results at Estoril – some good like my first 250cc win in 2005 and a podium in 2007, some not so good like when we had a problem with the on-board camera in 2008,!” he said.
“Then we were back on the podium again in 2009. I was fast there last year but Jorge was a little faster. He is very strong at this circuit and I think we can expect him to be so again next Sunday.
“We just have to focus on the job of setting the bike up. We know that there are a lot of bumps here and our bike usually reacts quite aggressively over bumps, so we will have to see if we can adapt the set up. The GP10 has worked well in all kinds of conditions over the last few races so we’re pretty confident.”
