Lucio Cecchinellocurrent director of the LCR Honda team and president of the International Racing Team Association (IRTA), has granted 'Gpone' in which he has exhibited his vision on the present of MotoGP, the evolutions of Honda and a Curious anecdote about one of the most unique talents of this sport: Casey Stoner.
During the talk, the Italian expiloto not only stops to analyze technical and organizational aspects of the championship, but also rescues a story that, according to him, perfectly defines the genius of the Australian pilot. Everything happened during a Grand Prix on the American layout of Laguna Seca, famous for its legendary corkscrew curve. “I remember Laguna Seca, a difficult and important circuit in MotoGP with its famous sacks. I had never seen the circuitso we suggest that I saw it with a scooter. He did not want. Carmelo Ezpeleta proposed to see him in a security car and said that I didn't need it because I had already seen it at the PlayStation. At the end of the first training session were Nicky Hayden, Colin Edwards, Casey Stoner and behind all the others. That gives you the measure of your talent, “says Cecchinello with amazement.
“It was a great talent, a phenomenon. We have said it many times and we will repeat it again: in the history of motorcycling there have been many champions and each with their own characteristics. Stoner was one of the most endowed with the greatest natural talents than others, without taking merit to Marc Márquez or Valentino Rossi. The naturalness with which it could get to any motorcycle and circuit and be fast, being able to interpret the curves and memorize them quickly and bring the motorcycle to the limit … it was something that It came naturally“, Agrega Cecchinello.
Casey Stoner (27), with the Honda of the CSF team with Dani Pedrosa (26), Shinya Nakano (56) and Carlos Checha (7).
From its debut in the Motorcycling World Cup in 2001 and its withdrawal at the end of the 2012 season, Stoner was proclaimed world champion of the queen category in 2007 with a Ducati and in 2011 with the Repsol Honda Team.
