CHESTE, SPAIN// Australia's Casey Stoner streaked away from pole position on his Ducati to win the season-ending Valencia MotoGP by more than three seconds today. In warm, dry conditions the championship runner-up survived a brief tussle on the first lap with local favourite Dani Pedrosa before steadily pulling away to register his sixth victory of the year. Pedrosa was second on a Honda ahead of Yamaha's 2008 world champion Valentino Rossi who came from the fourth row of the grid to take third on a track where he has not had much luck in the last couple of years.
It was the Italian's 16th podium finish in 18 races. Another Italian rider Andrea Dovizioso was fourth and the American Nicky Hayden was fifth ahead of compatriot Colin Edwards. *Reuters
