Casey Stoner (b. 1985), the 2008 Young Australian of the Year, won the MotoGP World Championship motorcycle competition held at Phillip Island in 2007. Stoner first competed when he was four years old, and by the time he was fourteen he had won forty-one dirt and long track titles and seventy state titles. Because the legal age for road racing in Australia is sixteen, in 1999 his family moved to the UK, where he could legally compete from the age of fourteen. From 2000 onwards Stoner competed in the 125cc and 250cc classes, and in 2007 he joined the Ducati racing team. His World Championship win made him a household name in Australia.
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