Casey Stoner “Thank you all for the support you have given me throughout my career”
Casey Stoner greets and thanks fans and sponsors on his latest post on the repsol blog
After his retirement, which became effective after the last race held in Valencia, Casey Stoner leaves us definitively, with one last post on the Repsol blog which he kept throughout the year.
“Hello everyone, I'm writing to you from Valencia, where we have just “packed up” the truck and motorhome and are preparing to leave for Switzerland this afternoon. Putting away the trophies and watches from the 2012 pole and looking at my overalls and boots makes me realize that I am truly leaving this world. I'm not a very emotional person, but this time I'm getting really emotional. My team was like a second family and the motorhome a second home, and it will be strange not to be around while they test for 2013.
The race weekend was a bit frustrating, I wish I had a dry race for my last race, but I think I used all my luck with the weather at Phillip Island! I really didn't want to go out in the rain here in Valencia, and I'm very happy to get on the podium in my last race.
Some friends from Australia came to see me here and Chaz (Davies, Aprilia rider in the Superbike world championship ed.) and his girlfriend also came here. Even though the race wasn't ideal, it was nice to have my friends here who came with us to the ceremony on Sunday evening. I missed having quality social relationships and that's something we can't wait to find again!
The last few weeks have been quite long and I'm relieved the season has come to an end and that I didn't damage my ankle further. I'm disappointed that I couldn't fight for the title until the end, due to my injury, but these things happen and you have to accept them. It was unfortunate though that it happened to me in my last year in MotoGP.
We're going home now, I'm going to unpack and I can't wait to be home and spend some time with my family.
This is my last blog on the Repsol e website I appreciated all your comments and tweets I received. Thanks to all of you for the support you have given me throughout my career and thanks also to the people and the sponsor who made it possible . I'm sure I'll be back for a visit to a race or two next year, and perhaps I'll choose a cold, wet weekend so I can watch the drivers line up for the race whilst having a cup of tea in the pits…
Thanks again,
Casey”
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Thanks to you Casey….
@andrea mancini. you're happy??? just because whoever you support gains a position!!! poor you'…
Testoner: Quoto.
These are the fans who then make "a generic driver" generally unbearable regardless of handle, results and empathy.
Eccheccazz…
Thanks to you Casey, you made us have a lot of fun!
But I say where, when, how do we find a war machine like this?
Instinct and speed.
Mythical!
Hello!
Casey N.1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is thanks to you !!!!!!!
testoner and Andrea G, I join yours.
Hello.
“Did you have something with your shoulder?”
“Obviously your ambition outweighs your talent.”
Here, these are the things that a person, among other things really very intelligent as you are, could spare themselves, otherwise you risk falling into any "Andrea Mancini".
I say this affectionately, let's be clear.
PS
I would also add that these are the classic things that make the Stoner man "small", compared to the "great" driver that he is!
Personal opinion, obviously.
Fatman & Co. viscerally "hate" Valentino for a series of his ways of being, and not as a driver (in their words),
here, here the roles are classically subverted ;-)
but how?
JUST 2 red thumbs of cowards who DO NOT respond in writing?
well then my sympathy is increasing!
;-)
Great!
We are at 4 red thumbs!
I love you because you, inglorious "brave" ones, do not disappoint me.
May.
@rob and w-il.. sorry for my ignorance..(I'm a fruitarian!) could you give me the translation of what you write in English!!!
@ Testoner, the sentence is from Jerez 2011: VR overwhelmed Stoner in the wet, he went to Casey's garage to apologize and Casey made fun of him by asking him if he had shoulder problems, if his shoulder was okay; he concluded by telling him that his ambition is greater than his talent.
Wilsic..Rossi "The Cxlx drives Biagi to get behind every Sunday"..it's like a great man instead..
PS: I think that perhaps the Rossi rider can be worth the Stoner on the track but if we're talking about MEN, forget it... you'll lose a lot of points..
Let's say things clearly W_il_Sic....:-)
If you had been in Stoner's place when Valentino said those things about him not putting in that much effort driving the D16... what would you have said to him in his place...? (knowing then that he was significantly faster)
Seeing what you sometimes write to those who provoke you...:-)
In my opinion, what Stoner said with these sweet words...is nothing compared to what you would have said to him...:-)
You have never raced...so I'll repeat it to you once again...so that you remember it well...: Valentino has always known from the first day he saw him that Stoner is in "another category"... like everyone else the strong riders...among themselves know perfectly how things are...(this is why I admired Melandri Capirossi and Hayden when they said they didn't understand how Stoner managed to set those times) perhaps he mistakenly thought that he too could get a result with the D16...strong of a budget much higher than what Ducati was used to with Stoner...
And then I was also surprised by another thing...: an interview with Valentino a few days ago about Stoner and the end of his career...
Valentino says: "I didn't immediately understand the meaning of his words at the time, I didn't like his words"...
For someone who says he lived in England for a few years it amazes me….when I understood from the television what Stoner had told him….
If you read the MCN forum in England...Valentino has made quite a few enemies in all latitudes after those words about Stoner's speed...
In life, either you are a kind of semi God, clearly stronger than everyone else... a steamroller... or it is better to be careful what you say... it could backfire...
Thanks for the lesson, Rob. I took notes.
Reading your words on Stoner, like probably mine on Rossi, one could paraphrase your "idol" by saying:
“Your typhus-fever outweighs your cleverness, sometimes”.
said this…
no, I have never been a professional driver: I go on the track at an amateur level sometimes, and I have raced in (car) rallies always at an amateur level, because I didn't have dad's money to do more.
At 20 I had a son in my arms with whom I went through university, earning a living by selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door or delivering pizzas; and moreover in a foreign country.
I am 49 years old, and I guarantee you, believe me, that since Life in general has been quite a stepmother to me, today in my professional sector I am just as you say a demigod, a steamroller, (I humbly ask forgiveness from those who read for 'obligatory immodesty) and something necessarily backfires on me: there are no heroes without wounds.
In here, however, almost everything I write backfires on me, but that's another story.
Besides my greatest enjoyment…..
PS
Always with unchanged respect towards you, Rob.
(for the avoidance of doubt)
I want to underline that Stoner is not my idol... but the greatest talent who has ever graced the slopes...
Furthermore, I would also like to reiterate that...even if I ran and won something small...I always feel like Mr Nobody...:-)
I mean...it's not because I ran that what I say is the law...but I certainly eat a little of it...:-)
I like different opinions....when they aren't obtuse....:-)
The person and the pilot Valentino and Stoner….reflect their stories….
Valentino had the life he had... and for this reason he is the person he is...
Stoner for the same reason is a different person….
But no one has the right to denigrate the other….even if Stoner hadn't won anything….he remains the greatest talent ever seen to this day….
Valentino knows this much better than you and me….so, discussion closed.
And good evening…:-)
I also like anything that is NOT obtuse and that is why I have respected and respected you since the first moment you appeared in here.
And it still is like this.
I more than agree with you that pilots should respect each other, and any individual should mutually respect each other.
I agree that in the past Rossi has been rather irreverent in general, and sometimes out of place, arousing the frustration of the unfortunate person and this is not good. Just as I agree that he should have recognized Stoner's talent in a less clumsy and spiteful way than he did.
But fortunately, he too is human and he too has made mistakes (often) from this point of view.
today it seems to me to be much scaled down and changed from this point of view.
I don't know, but he's never interested me as a man, I always say it: he made me have a lot of fun as a driver, and this is what I try to defend, perhaps wrongly.
Good evening, from the bottom of my heart, to you too!
psI instead believe that Stoner's words to Valentino on that famous day….
They will be brought up very often in every appropriate circumstance….
They will be used and reused…..even long after Valentino stops racing….
In my opinion, Stoner had wanted to sing them to him for some time...but he waited for the right moment...:-)
@rob. Hi, I'm Max (since you told me you didn't remember the names..) I can say that we fully agree on the fact that those words (and few understood what you mean..) will remain in the minds of many and especially reds. that he also tried to mentally destroy Casey as he did with many others (and as some people here believe he succeeded..) but perhaps he didn't realize he was dealing with a champion!! but I have already tried to point out these things several times but you probably have a way of speaking that doesn't offend anyone... it makes no difference that I support him and I was furious!! A QUESTION: in your opinion, dear Rob, is it a permanent retirement or, looking at his talent, will he regret it and return?? then more calmly I would like to talk and get advice on rye..
Hi Max,
Regarding rye, I have already answered you where you asked me the question....but anyway, ask me what you want, I will tell you everything you want to know, since I know it.
Believe me Max, both Stoner and all those who raced with him always knew that he was clearly the most gifted... I'm obviously talking about the years in MotoGP.
He won't come back again, because it would be like doing 2 crazy things in one....
First because every rider who races to win hates what he does... (just read their biographies... including Valentino's...)
But I didn't need it, because I already knew on my own what it means to "violate yourself" to try to go faster... only those who have done it can understand.
In this regard, I'll tell you what happened to me... and more...:
There is a big difference between running and running to win...
For a long time I kept a little secret to myself about when I was racing... when I saw the signs for the braking points... 200,150,100m...
What I have never said to anyone is: I was screaming in my helmet... very loudly: you must not brake... you must not brake...
One day while I was following Carl Fogarty's interview in Monza after winning the SBK race by beating Aaron Slight in the sprint...
Fogarty said that when he reached the parabolica he shouted to himself in his helmet not to brake...
I almost fell off my chair when I heard what he said...
No one can understand what psychological violence someone who fights to win does to himself....
Only those who did it.
The second reason why it is not worth it for him to return is: by leaving he loses about 2 seconds per lap (with rare exceptions) and therefore he would never be able to be that fast again.
Stoner is the past now.
...like what happened to Freddie in '89...I agree...he remains a myth but the stain of his failed return will remain forever...it should have all ended in Jarama 1986...that's how it is for me!!!
I totally agree Rob, sometimes we talk about things that "we" don't know at all...and maybe it's true, and as you say...even Casey was tired of raping himself...I don't see why he should do it again...
thanks Rob!!!
do you see that we can get along??
right Roberto?
:-)
if you're referring to me I see it and I'm happy about it.
However, I confess that sometimes I really have to force myself like Stoner, and not to go fast on the motorbike but to maintain the "peace" so laboriously achieved!
Because, believe me, sometimes I read things that Job sucks at me in terms of patience...
;-)
ehehehe
as for children I have beaten you
I turned 17 in October, my son was born on December 5th....
but...you turned 17 in October, but what year??
And anyway damn! I thought I was precocious….
what happened to the boxer???
Now the name escapes me...
or does he write with another nik??
haaa it just occurred to me!!
AENEAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now I would like to know who that smart guy is who gave me the thumbs up a priori....since I didn't implicate anyone....
if it's for enea the problem is always the same!!!
It wasn't in an ironic sense. It's a sincere question and one that doesn't make itself heard
the fact that I called him the boxer is because I really didn't remember the name at that moment
rob did you also race abroad?
But do you see Mr Nobody running abroad Bibo?
But when ever….:-)
But the answer is yes... but they were 2 races as an old man... and riding a shitty vintage Ducati... as many here define Ducati...
Even if abroad there are also some crazy people who like Ducatis...:-)
rob at least how old you are you can tell us!!!