Top ten MotoGP stars: Casey Stoner [2].

ltxcn.top recently asked for your MotoGP star of 2008, from a shortlist of ten riders provided, and - with voting having now closed - the time has come to reveal 🍬the results.

𓆏During the next ten weekdays, we will be revealing the voting results in reverse order, with the winner being revealed tomorrꦗow (Wednesday December 3).

More than 54,000 votes were cast 🐭for the MotoGP poll. The average score given for each rider was used to produce the final ranking.

MotoGP Star of the Year - second place:

Stoner, San Marino MotoGP 2008
Stoner, San Marino MotoGP 2008
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ltxcn.top recently asked for your MotoGP star of 2008, from a 🎀shortlist of ten riders provided, and - with voting having now closed - the 🎃time has come to reveal the results.

During the next ten weekdays, we will be revealing the voting results in reverse order, with the w൲inner being revealed tomorrow (Wednesday December 3).

More than 54,000 votes were cast for the MotoGP poll. The average score given for each rider was used to produce the fi🎶nal ranking.

MotoGP Star of the Year - second place:

Name: Casey StonerTeam: Ducati MarlboroBike: Ducati Desmosedici GP8Wins: 6Podiums: 11Pole Positions: 9Fastest laps: 9Championship points: 280Championship position: 2nd

Two successive falls from the lead may have ended Casey Stoner's realistic hopes of retaining h🦄is MotoGP crown in 2008, but the young Australian's incredible speed - and unique ability to master the Desmosedici GP8 - was recognised with second place in your MotoGP Star of the Y🧜ear vote.

The 2007 world champion won the first and last races of this season, pl💟us four other victories to finish the year runner-up to Valentino Rossi, whom Stoner notably lost out to during a thrilling US GP battle - then fell 𒆙whilst leading at the next two rounds.

After winning the first ever MotoGP night race at Qatar, Stoner had taken just one podium from the next four rounds, leaving him 41 points behind Rossi. However, technicalꦺ changes prompted a seemingly uns✅toppable fight-back that took Stoner to within 20 points of Rossi heading into the pivotal Laguna Seca race.

After his double disaster at Brno 💙a𓆏nd Misano, Stoner - by now diagnosed with a wrist injury - returned to the podium at round 14 in Japan. Stoner then won in front of his home fans at Phillip Island before handing Ducati second place in the constructors' championship with victory over home hero Dani Pedrosa at Valencia.

Stoner was the only Ducati rider to win a race in 2008 and claimed all but two of the Desmosedici's 2008 podiums. Casey's nine 🐈pole positions and nine fastest laps were more than any other rider and he outscored beleaguered team-mate Marco Melandri, himself a former MotoGP World Championship runner-up, by a huge 229 points.

The next best Ducati rider after Stoner was Alice's Toni Elias, who scored 188 points les💟s than the Australian and finished just twelfth in the world championship.

2nd - Casey Stoner3rd - Jorge Lorenzo4th - Andrea Dovizioso5th - Nicky Hayden6th - Dani Pedrosa7th - James Toseland8th - Colin Edwards9th - Toni Elias10th - Alex de Angelis

Tomorrow: We reach number one in the MotoGP Star of the Year poll.

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