Casey Stoner confident with new electronics

Reigning world champion Casey Stoner is confident new electronic settings will help his bid for a second successive victory in the British MotoGP.

The Aussie is chasing a first win since the opening race in Qatar at Donington Park on Sunday, confident a revised electronics set-up he first tested in Catalunya earlier this month will boost his victory hopes.

The 22-year-old, who did not attend a Riders for Health charity auction today after being booed by a minority of fans on stage a year ago, said: “The bike is moving lot less coming off the corners and is easier to ride and a lot easier to do the times I was much faster than I managed in the race.

“It’s a lot smoother coming off the corners, which makes it easier going into the next corner because it is not moving. In Catalunya we struggled for traction.

“I had no grip and the bike was moving all over the shop and it was very, very difficult to ride. But with the engine management changes we tried we dropped nearly one second off my lap times.

“It is the same electronics system just a new setting and it smoothes the engine out and doesn’t make it quite as peaky so it drives a bit harder rather spin.”