168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner has spoken out about the difficult receptions he was given by British fans during his MotoGP heyday.

Fans at Donington🐼 Park booed Stoner when he won the British MotoGP in 2007 and 2008.

Stoner was the reigning MotoGP champ🌊ion on the second occasion, when he lashed out by questioning why the fans were ‘abusing' riders.

Stoner had raced in the UK before his 🔜big break, and was based near Liverp🌸ool as he chased his dream.

Now he has opened up about his strange rela🐎tionship with fans in the UK.

“The Br🦩itish fans, I was really hurt by,” Stoner told the  podcast.

“I didn’t know why they hated me so much.

“Even before I was up aga⭕in🅷st Valentino Rossi, it wasn’t great.

“As soon as I challenged Valentino, then it ju💧st w꧋ent downhill from there.

“It’s strange. Several ot🃏her Aussie racers cut their teeth in the U🔯K.

“If it was༒n’t for the UK, I wouldn’t have got to where I was. Several of my best friends are from the UK, from when I was there. I have such fond memories of the place.

“When I returned, I got slaughtered. I couldn’t unders🧔tand what I’d done.

“In the UK they wante🥀d more of a show, or a showman. I’d just tell it like it was, good or bad. Obviously a load of people didn’t like it.”

'MotoGP turned me into an introvert'

Stoner won the championship on a Du♉cati in 2007, his second ye💯ar in the premier class.

He was just 23 years old, and insisted that the pressures of MotoGP changed🐼 his personality. H🃏e notoriously retired young, aged 28 in 2012.

“I have become introverted,” Stoner said. “I🦩 used to be outside all the🐼 time, happy to make friends.

“Iℱ still struggled a bit, especially inꦉ larger groups I was never comfortable.

“But MotoGP, in ꦬp🌠articular, turned me into an introvert.

“When you get called all sorts of crap, and have all sorts of pressure, you just 𒊎want to ꦅwrap up in your cocoon.

“It took its toll preꦗtty early. I went from someone who was always happy to be out,ඣ to someone who wanted to be closed off and away from it.”

Stoner in꧒sisted that mꦫedia coverage of him was unfavourable.

“It wasn’t that I wasn’t friendly. It was a tough time,⛄” he said. “The media, everybody, was against me.

“🧔I didn’t h🏅ave this big outward character that everybody was looking for, at the time.

“Also, pܫeople truly didn’t understand me. I’m not there just to enjoy the racing. The results were all-important, not the enjoyment of it.

“Then you cop flak for everyt🎉hing you do. I’m also very self-punishin🎀g. It was lose, lose, lose. It was very heavy on me.

“ꦇIt took until my later years to realise I could take the pressure off myself. I’d done all the work, be proud of ♔what you’ve done.

“I don’t believe you should go out - in a sport where you’re paid as much as we a♏re, and are expected to get results - 💦and just go and have fun.

“If you’re just having fun, you’re not putting in the work. That’s where we see inconsistencieꦦs.

“I waꦉs harsh on myself. E💙ven when I won races, if I made mistakes or wasn’t happy with how I rode? There was work to do, more to get out of myself.

“That’s where I copped bad press.

“They attacꦏk you more because you didn’t celebrate these wins like they wanted you to. “They expect you to celebrate each win like it was the championship.

“Maybe I didn’t𝕴 celebrate them as much as ▨other people do.”

'I have learned over the years'

Stoner’s personality was the polar opposite to the extravᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚagant Rossi.

They exchanged championship 🔯wins in 2007 then 2008.

Stoner would later win 🥂the 2011 title for Honda and, after one more season, would call it quits.

“I certainly wouldn’t change anything,” he said.

🌳“I have learned over the years about how to articulate things bett🃏er.

“I’d be more open to how Iꦍ could shape certain quꩵestions, or explain things differently.

“I challenged myself, after the first few years of challenging for MotoGP championships, on how to approach certain people. I started to read each person individually, whether it was my competitors or the p🦩ress.

“I knew how to 🐈deal with each of them a💟s an individual.

“I won’t change who I am. I still tell it like it is. I am maybe lesওs harsh than I used to be.

“But that got ﷽me to where I was. I didn’t put any fluff on anything. They were all my opinions.

“I❀ was punished for that. The media were tough on me. Whatever they write, the fans believe, so everyone starts hating on you.”