Casey Stoner completed ♋a dream sixth successive v🐟ictory in his 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 W🧸orld Championship after rival Dani Pedrosa crashed out of the lead on tღhe second lap.

Comforta❀bly fastest in every track session prior to the race, 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 ope💙ning lap, Stoner powered past ไLorenzo's Yamaha out of the final turn, then took the lead when Pedrosa slid-off at the hairpin on lap two.

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

Turn three at Phillip island was named 'Stoner Cor🥂ner' in his honour on Thursday.

Lorenzo and Pedrosa had long conce﷽ded that Stoner would be unbe💃atable in normal conditions and were instead focussed on the title fight.

Holding a 23-point lead, Lorenzo would be champion if he could score three poi🃏nts 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🐽 secured his second MotoGP rostrum.

The best weather of the weekend wa💯s present for 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🍒 Dovizioso as the halfway mark approached, but the Ge൲rman 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 0035s 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 all-Ducati duel with team-ℱmet Nicky Hayden.

Rossi co🌜ncluded his penultimate Ducati rider 37s from victory and 1.2s from Hayden.

Fellow Desmosedici rider Karel Abraham took ninth wit𒅌h 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 beati💙ng de Puniet to the line by 0.043s.

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

Local rider Kris McLaren, drafted into the Avintia Bluse🍸ns 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, Malaysia and Australia - in three weekends. MotoGP now takes one weekend off 🧜before the Valencia finale from November 9-11.

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