The legal age to enter into highway races in Oz is sixteen, at 14 years previous Casey Stoner and his parents agreed he was ready to move up onto street racing in order that they packed up the household and moved to England- cause being that the authorized age for street racing in that country is 14.
While Dani Pedrosa rode unchallenged at entrance heading to his first win in over a year, the rest of the pack had been preventing for the final positions and factors. With 9 laps left within the race Marco Melandri managed to cross the defending Stoner who was clearly simply trying to hold on together with his tyres having fallen away drastically by now. He now was in harm limitation mode with each Nicky Hayden and John Hopkins closing in on the current championship leader. On lap 23 the flying Texas Tornado was capable …