By Lisa Lewis

Moto2 front🅠runner and former 125cc champion Julian Simon disagrees with Casey Stoner's recent assessment of MotoGP and also feels the newly retired double wo🎐rld champion will one day return.

In a recent interview published by Australia's Sunday Telegraph t🌌o mark Stoner's switch to four-wheel racing, Stoner cited a lack of respect,🎉 the direction MotoGP was taking and bad treatment by fans as behind his decision to quit.

However it was the following comment that has rai♛sed eyebrows:

"We lost a rider a couple of years ago [Marco Simoncꦜelli] and within a month it was like it never happened. They want to see biff and barge and they don't realise our lives are on the line. We became puppets in that world, and it had nothing to do with racing."

Spanish website as.com reports that Simon told radio station Cadena Ser:

"The trut♈h is that I don't share Stoner's view. I do not think people have forgotten a rider like Sim🍎oncelli... nor Kato and Tomizawa, and hopefully it will never happen again.

"I do notဣ understand. Stoner has done 🐼so much for bikes, but bikes have also done a lot for him and I think eventually Stoner will again ride in the MotoGP World Championship.

"If not full time then sporad🔥ically. You'll see..."