Casey Stoner completed a dream sixth successive victory in his final home Australian MotoGP a𝓀ppearance at Phillip🌼 Island.

The Australi🍬an won by 9.223sec in a race that saw Jorge Lorenzo wrap up the 2012 World Championship after rival Dani Pedrosa crashed out of the lead on the second lap.

Comfortably fastest in every track session prior to theꦫ race, despite a spi൩ll 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 slid-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 - and carried the Australian flag p🌄roudly on the slow down lap.

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

Lorenzo and Pedrosa had long conceded that Stoner would be unbeatable in normal conditions and were inste💟ad focussed on the title fight.

Holding a 23-point lead, Lorenzo would be champion if he could score three points more than Pedrosa. Lorenzo had seen Pedrosa's early slip -🅺 after whꦆich 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 threaꦦtened as he secured his second MotoGP rostrum.

The best weather of the weekend was 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-soft𒊎 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 approaౠched, but the German rookie couldn't break away.

The closing stages saw Bradl shuffled back to sixth📖, with Tech 3's Dovizioso snatch💟ing 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 ဣspent much of the race in an all-Ducati duel with team-met Nicky Hayden.

Rossi concluded his 🉐penul♋timate Ducati rider 37s from victory and 1.2s from Hayden.

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

The Aspar pair traded places on the penultimate lap, with Espargaro beating de P🧸uniet 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 point.

Local rid✅er Kris 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 pracꦏtice and qualifying.

Ph🧜illip Island was the last in a gruelling run of three 'flyaway' races - Japan, Malaysia and Australia - in three weekends. Moto💦GP now takes one weekend off before the Valencia finale from November 9-11.

Lorenzo's team-mate Ben Spies will also mi𓄧ss Valencia following recent shoulder surge🌊ry and be replaced by test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga.