Casey Stoner secures Australian GP win

Casey Stoner has won the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island for the fourth successive year.

Having earned pole position on his 25th birthday on Saturday, the Australian Ducati rider led from start to finish to seal the win in superb fashion.
Stoner opened up a 1.5 second gap between himself and newly crowned MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo within the first lap.
He eventually finished 8.598secs ahead of Lorenzo, with Valentino Rossi third.
Rossi, the 2009 world champion from Italy, stole in to finish third courtesy of a bold overtaking manoeuvre on United States rider Nicky Hayden in the final lap of the race.
His third place finish ensured that he and Spaniard Lorenzo sealed the 2010 Team Championship with two rounds remaining.
However, Stoner was the stand-out performer, capping an impressive weekend which saw him claim pole in rainy conditions on Saturday and he is now closing in on Rossi's five straight victories at Phillip Island between 2001 and 2005.

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Lorenzo is MotoGP World Champion

Jorge Lorenzo secured his first MotoGP title after finishing third in the Malaysian round of the series at Sepang on Sunday.  

The Spaniard needed to finish ninth or better to clinch the championship on his Fiat Yamaha, helped by the absence of his closest rival and compatriot Dani Pedrosa due to an injury suffered in the last MotoGP round in Japan.
Reigning champion Valentino Rossi, a team-mate of Lorenzo at Fiat Yamaha, won the race in a time of 41 minutes 03.448 seconds, with Rossi's fellow Italian Andrea Dovizioso second for Repsol Honda.
Lorenzo started the race on pole and led through the first half of the race before the Italian duo went past him.
He said: "I was really impressed to be at the front and not to lose any time until the end of the race.

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