Casey Stoner completed a dream sixth successive victory in hiꩲs final home Australian MotoGP appearance at Phillip Island.

The Australian won by 9.223sec in🌌 a race that saw Jorge Lorenzo wrap up the 2012 World Championsh♋ip after rival Dani Pedrosa crashed out of the lead on the second lap.

Comfortably fasꦑtest in every track session prior to the rac🎶e, despite a spill in qualifying, Stoner continued in a class of his own during the race.

Third behind Lorenzo and team-mate Pedrosa on the opening lap, Stoner powered past Lorenzo's Yamaha out of the final turn, then took the lead when Pedrosa sl🅺id-off at the hairpin on lap two.

The victory was🌠 Stoner's first since his mid-August Indianapolis ankle injuries - and fifth of the year - aওnd carried the Australian flag proudly on the slow down lap.

Turn three at Phillip island wa𒐪s named 'Stoner Corner' in his honour on Thursday.

Lorenzo and Pedrosa had long conceded that Stoner wo🍷uld be unbeatable in normal conditions and were instead focussed on the title fight.

Holding a 23-point lead, Lorenzo would be champion if he could score threᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe points more than Pedrosa. Lorenzo had seen Pedrosa's early slip - after which the #26 pulled into the pits and retired - and ✤settled into a safe second thereafter.

Tech 3 Yamaha's Cal Crutchlow was promoted to third by Pedrosa's exit. The Englishman was never threatened as he se🎶cured his 𝕴second MotoGP rostrum.

The best weather of the weekend was present ℱfor the race, with clear blue skies and 15 degree air temperatures. Honda LCR's Stefan Bradl was the only rider to pick anything but a soft-soft tyre choice - opting for the harder rear.

That looked to be paying off as he muscled his way past Alvaro Bautista and Andrea Dovi💛zioso as the halfway mark approached, but the Geꦑrman rookie couldn't break away.

The closing stages saw Bradl shuffled back to sixth, with Tech 3's Dovizioso snatching fourth place from Gresini Honda's Bautista by 0.129s and Bradl just 00ꦍ35s further behind.

Valentino Rossi, unbeaten at Phillip Island from 2001-2005, was already 22 seconds behind Stoner🙈 by the midway mark and spent much of the race in an ಌall-Ducati duel with team-met Nicky Hayden.

Rossi c🌠oncluded his penultimate Ducati rider 37s from victory and 1.2s from Hayden.

Fellow Desmosedici rider Karel Abraham took ninth with Randy de Puniet, who claimed a new CRT qualifying high with ninth on the grid, found himself challenged in the race by▨ team-mate Aleix Espargaro.

The Aspar pair traded places on the penultimate lap, with Espargaro beating de Puniet to t🦹he line by 0.043s.

Hector Barbera (Pramac), Danilo Petrucci (Ioda), Michele Pirro (Gresini) and Ivan Silva (Avintia) also completed the race and all scored at least a ඣpoint.

Local rider Kri꧂s McLaren, drafted into the Avintia Blusens squad in place of the injured Yonny Hernandez, didn't start the race after missing the 107% time in practice and qualifying.

Phillip Island was the last in a gruelling run of three 'flyaway' races - Japan, Malays🌌ia and Australia - in three weekends. MotoGP now takes one weekend off before the Valencia finale from November 9-11.

Lorenzo's tea♔m-mate Ben Spies will also miss Valencia following recent shoulder surgery and ♋be replaced by test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga.