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Casey Stoner is to forgo wrist surgery in order to test Ducati's new Desmosedici GP9 at the Valencia round of this year's MotorGP championship, motorcycle insurance customers may be interested to learn.

Having already seen Valentino Rossi win this year's competition, Stoner could have been forgiven for missing the final two races of the year to have the surgery but the Australian rider will be hitting the track during a post-race testing session.

Stoner said the Valencia test is the "only reason" that he is continuing with the current season, the official MotoGP website reports.

"We need to test that bike again, because there is going to be a three-month period in which I can't test, and the technicians will need as much information as they can get," he commented.

Having conceded the title this year, the 2007 champion said the team would be "back fighting" next year.

Stoner won last weekend's Australian GP, finishing ahead of Rossi who had to make his way through the field from the fourth row on the grid to make it onto the podium.

The Italian said second was the best he could have achieved and the result helped him maintain his ten-year podium run in Australia.

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