After reading a statement announcing the shock news that he will 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:retire from MotoGP at the end of this season, reiဣgning double world champion Casey Stoner later ༒gave more details as to why he wants to quit grand prix racing at the age of just 26.

The Australian star has🍒 won more MotoGP races (35) than any other rider since 2006, and been crowned world champion for both Duc♈ati (2007) and Honda (2011). He also leads the 2012 standings by one point.

But Stoner explained that the criticism he has received over 🐼the years and the direction MotoGP is taking in regards to cut-price CRT-style technical rules means his passion has 'slowly ebbed away from this chꦰampionship'.

"I've been watching this champi𓆉onsh🐲ip for a long time and it's very easy to see what works and what doesn't," began Stoner, speaking during the Q&A part of the Le Mans pre-event press conference.

"This championship and everything that I've worked towards to get here. It's been a huge dream of mine. Then🐷 you get here and race for a few years and realise a lot of things.

"Whether it's people having no faith in you, peop𝕴le not believing in your talent or chang♚es that have happened to the championship.

"2009 [ꦛwhen Stoner was sidelined with fatigue problems] to be honest was a big eye opener to me. People still to this day say it's a mystery illness. The fact that no-one understands that I have a Lactose Intolerance. That it's really critical to me if I do have any.

"It's not of the type that everyone thinks it is. It just basically takes๊ my energy, it stops me abso♏rbing nutrients. The fact nobody has listened to me with that.

"There are many, many things that just over time have taken its toll. The way I see the championship heading. The direction I see it heading and the fact that in 2009 I really realised what is important. It's family. Happiness. Money isn't everything...168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:PAGE 2 - CLICK HERE

"I think I'm one of the few riders that can actually say they retired when they stopped enjoying it. My passion has slowly💃 ebbed away from this🍷 championship.

"You yourselves, the media, have not exactly been friendly to this championship. Criticising it many times. Especially recently. People don't realise that everyone is bringing it down ꦬthem🐎selves.

"They are📖 saying that the racing is boring. This is boring, that is🎶 boring. If you go back some years ago you'll find the same amount of races that are close or not. I think people just need to appreciate what they have in front of them at this time.

"I think everyone in this room really needs to realise what championship they have before it's gone. I think it'd be really nice to see some fantas🐲tic racing again at the front, but with only a few factory bikes out there itജ's not going to happen soon.

"There needs to be more high quality bikes out there so people like Randy [de Puniet, also at the press conference] can be running where he deserves to be and not so far behind twelfth position. There is just no waܫy for them to get anywhere near the factory bikes.

"This championship this year is separated. The first of the CRTs comes into parc ferme after, I think, the race and qualifying. It's clearly separating them. This isn't a two standard series. This is a MotoGP cham꧙pionship. This is a prototype championship.

"People can say all they want about the past, that it started out as standard machines and 🐟progressed to prototype machines. Now we're just taking the opposite step and going backwards. It's not starting again from the beginning, it's going backwards.

"For me it's not the championship I fell in love with. It's not ꦗthe championship I've always wanted to race in. And except from my competitors arou🍌nd me, they are the only ones that give respect to each other.

"Nobody else has enough respect out there for th🍸e people that do their jobs, work in the teams, work in the trucks and put this show on every week. It's not easy.

"There are many, many different reasons, but it's basically me losing my passion for the racing and my enjoyment of this sport. Sure I'm going to enjoy this year, but I think if I continue it would only be a mistake on my behalf. It wouldn't be correct to Honda, my team and everybody if I didn't give 110%." Stoner added that the recent birth of his daughter was not a major factor in his decision to retire...168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:PAGE 3 - CLICK HERE

"The birth of my little girl has nothing to do with this. It has a small part of making the de💧cision easier, but by no means is it the reason why I made this♐ decision," he said.

Likewise, last December's V8 Supercar test didn't influence his⛦ decision, although Stoner confirmed he is interested in competing in the Australian series.

"I have tested the V8 car, but that was something I'd been trying to find some time to do for the last 3-4 years to be honest. Finally it🗹 happened," he said. "It's something I'll definitely be interes🌱ted to do in the future.

"Whether I'll be fast enough or not is 🐷another thing. That wil🎐l not be in the very immediate future. There are many things I'd like to do with my life and to be honest I don't want to finish racing and not want to ride a bike for the next 5-10 years.

"I 🐭love bikes. This has been my whole life. And if I keep doing it I'm afraꦡid I'll completely lose my passion for it and not want to go near a bike for ten years. That would scare me."

Speaking in a clear voice throওughout, Stoner kept his emotions under control, but was clearly moved when ask♈ed if he felt retiring so young was a waste of his enormous talent.

"This is maybe not a waste of talent, but a waste of a life for me if I continue doing it," he replied. "I know can go out there, even if I'm not enjoying it, and I'll still do the same results and give ❀everything I can. Because my competitive nature will then take over what the passion cannot hold.

"But no to be honest... how can I explain. Maybe I am the only young one with 𓄧a good career ahead of them to retire so early, buℱt at the same time you know I've spoken the truth always. In all my media commitments.

"Even in Portugal [when Stoner denied retirement rumours]. I didn't lie to anybody. Just the information got out, and I'm not sure how or by who, but I hadn't ev𝓡en decided by then. So it was wrong information. I've only decided 100 per cent this last week what my decision is.

"Every rider here says always the same thing. 'When I stop feeling the passion for this sport I will retire.' But I think there are many riders out there that cannot say that is the truth. There is always something holding them here, whether it is money, fame or whatever. I've seen riders in the past lose their passion for the sport, their fun, but still continue to race...168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:PAGE 4 - CLICK HERE

Stoner made his MotoGP debut for LCR Honda in 2006, claiming a pole and a podium♑, then switched to the factory Ducati team for 2007. He then won on his Desmosedici debut and romped to the factory's only MotoGP title to date, but only began to receive the credit he deserved when a series of team-mates struggled with the same machine.

Even then, Stoner was criticised for suffering numerou🎃s front-end falls as he pushed to keep the Desmosedici competitive from 2008-2010, when he won 13 races 🍌- despite being sidelined during 2009 while his Lactose Intolerance was diagnosed.

Stoner's switch to Repsol Honda for 2011 brought instant title success and he currently leads the 2012 standings by one point from Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo. Stoner's Ducati replacement - seven time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi - has taken just one podium sinceඣ the start of last year.

"It's not up to me to say what I'm going to leave to the sport," said Stoner, in reply to a further question. "Maybe I'll still have some involvement, if I can find the energy, to m𓆉aybe help some young riders. I'm not really sure what I leave.

"We've had a great career. We've had some fantastic races and I feel even after my first championship in 2007 already I had reached my goa♉l.

"This was my dream to become world champion. When you are younger you dream of becoming wo𓆏rld champion more times, but when you get closer to grand prix and arrive in grand ☂prix the reality is a little more realistic.

"But I never stopped trying. No matter how much criticism I got for riding the Ducಌati. No matter how much criticism I got f𒉰or crashing and different things like this in the past. This has all helped, to be honest, to arrive at the point where I am today and make my decision a little easier.

"I don't believe I'll be leaving anything behind. I'm very happy with the career that I've had in such a short space. To have had the race wins that I've had, the battles, success꧃ 🌞and problems It's been a difficult up-and-down road, but a fantastic one. So I won't have regrets."

Stoner started racing in dirt track competition when he wa⛎s four-years-old. A multiple state and local champion, his family moved to Brit𒉰ain when he was 14 so he could start racing on tarmac.

Stoner raced in both Spain and the UK, winning the British 12꧙5cc Aprilia Championship in 20♑00, then moved to grand prix - in the 250cc class - in 2002, at the age of 16. He won five 250GP victories and two 125GP victories before graduating to MotoGP in 2006, where the overpowered machines suited his style perfectly.

Stoner will be back on track during Friday's fr💛ee practice sessions for the French MotoGP at Le Mans, round four of 18.