Key trait identified that separated “special” Casey Stoner from fellow legends

"If you tried to copy him, imitat🌱e him, it didn't work out"

Casey Stoner
Casey Stoner

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Casey Stoner’s🎀 riding style ma𒊎de him unique to other MotoGP legends, an ex-rival claims.

Stoner won two MotoGP titles, with Duca🍰ti and Hon♔da, before an early retirement from the sport.

Yet𒈔 he remains outstanding even 🤪compared to Valentino Rossi, Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo.

“Devastating” is how Andrea Dov༺izioso described competing against S🦹toner to .

“🎶On the days when he was good ꩵhe could beat any rider.

“He had such a specia𝔉l talent that, if you tri𒐪ed to copy him, imitate him, it didn't work out.

“Stoner was something innate. To compete with him it was not 🔯enough to do the same thing but rather something completely different.

“Something like fighting with different weapons.

“Casey, unlike other riders, is more to be admired for his driving abilitℱy. See him♔ and enjoy his motorcycle, just like that.”

Dovizioso explained what i𓆏t was like to battle against legeꦛnds from the era of Rossi and Stoner.

“I often lost sleep, but that's normal,” he said.

“In 𓂃fact, I'm happy to have competed against them.

“Rossi is perhaps one of the most complete. In fa🐟ct, he is the one who has won the most championship🅺s.

“About Marquez, say t꧂hat he is incredi𓆉bly strong in many aspects, and it was very difficult to beat him.

“In my case, for thꦍree y♉ears in a row I competed with him at a high level.

“At a certain point I found the win𓂃ning card to ♛win a battle, but not the war.

“During🌟 the season he always endܫed up finding solutions to come first.”

Dovizioso described Lorenzo too.

“Jorge was a consistent rider,” he said.

“When he was in shape he hammered you. When he set an objective he was precise and decisive in its a♏chievem🌼ent. I think this was one of his main virtues.

“In a way, he was like his 🎐favourite driver: Max Biaggi.

“I studied Dani Pedrosa a lo༒t. I had him as a teammate too.

“Very g🧔ood, difficult to beat him, a🎉lthough sometimes he had ups and downs.

“I think he deserved to have🅠 won more championships than he d🦩id.

“When he had the 💃day, Dani was also impossible to ﷽beat.

“In short, it w♛as hard to compete against them, but at the same time fascinat𓄧ing.”

Dovizioso said about his many o♒n-track rivals: “There was always love and hate with them.

“I want to think that luckily in my career I had to🎉 deal with enormous talents.

“I have met riders who have written history, and it was very diffic🎃ult for me.

“There were many: from Valentino to Marc, including Stoner, Pedrosa and Lore🅷nzo.

“There were a few more, but the base of𓆏 adversarie💎s is this.

“All with different charac𝐆teristics, but the best thing is that 💝I always tried to study them, learn and nourish myself from them as well.

“We are talking about individuals with very strong personalit꧃ies. On their good days they were practically unbeatable.”

Dovizi🐼oso was recognised as a MotoGP Legend last year.

He was runner-up in 2017, 2018 and 2019, ea💟ch time to a peak Marquez.

Read More