Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner flew home to Australia for the abbreviated summer break with a 20-point championship lead after storming to victory with a stunning late-race pass of Yamaha’s hobbled World Champion Jorge Lorenzo in front of a crowd of nearly 53,000 on a warm sunny day at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California.Lorenzo had been the revelation of qualifying with a consistency that had Stoner…
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