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Driver / Rider Team Profiles
Top requested for April/May 2010
Michael Caruso - V8 Supercars Australia
DOB: 25/5/1983 - Place Of Birth:
Sydney, Australia - Lives: Melbourne, Vic
 
Casey Stoner - MOTOGP
In 2003 he went on to ride for
Lucio and Safilo Oxydo LCR in the 125cc GP series and took four podium
finishes and his first race win, in Valencia, at the end of the season.
In 2004, at 18
years of age, Casey moved to KTM for a season where he helped to
develop the team's 125cc bike into a winning machine. That year
he made it to the podium six times and took KTM's first ever win
in a GP class.
2005 saw Casey
once again come back under the welcoming umbrella of Lucio
Cecchinello's team, this time riding an official 250cc Aprilia.
He spent 2005 battling it out with Dani Pedrosa for the
championship, visiting the podium ten times in the process and
taking wins in Portugal, Shanghai, Qatar, Sepang, and Istanbul.
Finally in 2006, at twenty years
of age, Casey accomplished his long held ambition of racing in MotoGP, the
fastest and most prestigious of the classes.
In 2007 Casey Stoner has joined
the Ducati Marlboro Team alongside Loris Capirossi, with whom he has struck
up a good friendship. In winter testing he has often been amongst the
pacesetters and has proved to have rapidly adapted to the Desmosedici GP7
and Bridgestone tyres. On March 10, 2007, at the Losail International
Circuit in Qatar, Stoner won the first grand prix of the season, the first
ever 800cc grand prix, and had his first win in the MotoGP class.
On September 23rd, in Japan,
Stoner secured Ducati’s first MotoGP World Championship becoming the first
rider in over 30 years to win the MotoGP title on a European made bike and
the second youngest premier-class World Champion, after American legend
Freddie Spencer who won his title in 1983, and at the time was 84 days
younger than the 21 year old Stoner.
In 2009 Stoner is again involved
in the fight for the MotoGP title. Stoner steps onto the podium at Estoril
and then wins the next two races in Australian and Malaysia. In Valencia he
is extremely fast but then falls in the warm-up lap prior to the race, thus
losing third position in the overall standings. Casey concludes 2009 in
fourth position but knows he has regained his speed and physical strength.
Denny Hamlin - NASCAR
Considered one of the all-time
greatest late model drivers in the Virginias and Carolinas, Denny Hamlin is
a bona fide superstar in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The 2006 Sprint Cup
Series Rookie of the Year became the first rookie to ever qualify for the
Chase for the Sprint Cup and has qualified for the Chase in each year he’s
been racing NASCAR’s most elite level. The longest-tenured driver at Joe
Gibbs Racing, Hamlin first piloted his No. 11 FedEx-sponsored car to victory
in the 2006 Budweiser Shootout at Daytona and amassed two wins during his
rookie season and continues to be a race win contender at every stop on the
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
PERSONAL
Born November 18, 1980…Raised in Chesterfield, Virginia…Away from the track,
Denny enjoys spending time with friends and following the Washington
Redskins and Virginia Tech football…hobbies include boating, traveling,
skiing, playing cards, and competing in online racing leagues.
ACTIVE SEASON
In 2010, Denny is driving the No. 11 FedEx Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing
in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and will also drive in a select number of
NASCAR Nationwide Series events.
PREVIOUS SEASON
Denny finished fifth in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup standings, qualifying for
the Chase for the Sprint Cup on the heels of a season that garnered four
wins, 15 top-five finishes, and 20 top-ten finishes.
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