AUSTRALIAN GP: Phillip Island 2010

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Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:08 by Luca Bologna





With two of the three championships already decided, Lorenzo winning in Motogp and Elias in Moto2, only the 125 title wil still be in play at the always exciting Phillip Island.



Here are all the relevant numbers ahead of the Australian Grand Prix:



25 – Casey Stoner celebrates his 25th birthday on the day qualifying takes place at

Phillip Island.



24 - Spanish riders have won the last twenty-four 125cc Grand Prix races. The last

non-Spanish winner in the 125cc class was Andrea Iannone at the Catalan Grand Prix

last year. This is the longest sequence of successive 125cc GP wins by one nation in the

62-year history of Grand Prix racing.



22 – This will bee the 22nd time the Australian GP is is held at Phillip Island, and we hope there are still many more years to come.



21 – Valentino Rossi’s victory at Sepang was his 21st since the introduction of the

800cc capacity limit in MotoGP. This is just one victory less than Casey Stoner, who is

the most successful rider of the 800cc era in terms of Grand Prix wins.



11 – The victory by Marc Marquez at the Malaysian GP was the eleventh victory of the

year in the 125cc class by Derbi riders. This is the highest number of wins achieved in a

single season by Derbi in the 125cc class.



8 – Australian riders have taken eight premier-class victories in their home Grand Prix;

Wayne Gardner at Phillip Island in 1989 and 1990, Mick Doohan at Eastern Creek in 1992

& 1995 and Phillip Island in 1998, Casey Stoner for the last three years at Phillip Island.



6 years 161 days – The length of time between Roberto Rolfo’s last GP win in

the 250cc class, at Jerez in 2004, and his Moto2 victory in Malaysia.



5 – Following his win in Malaysia, Marc Marquez moves back to the top of the 125cc

championship standings. This is the fifth time this year that the leadership of the world

championship classification has changed in the 125cc class.



3 - Since the four-stroke MotoGP formula was introduced in 2002, Ducati and Honda

have each had three MotoGP wins at Phillip Island and Yamaha have had two victories.



3 – Phillip Island is one of just three current circuits where Yamaha have not had a win

since the introduction of the 800cc capacity limit; the other two are Valencia and Aragon.

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