For every motorcycle racer that lines up on the grid of a MotoGP race, there?s a thousand more whose racing career didn?t reach the dizzying heights of international competition. And of those that do, only a small handful go on to achieve legendary status. That?s because the line between making it and not, is a very thin one. One badly timed error in the life of a young racer could change the course of their life completely. It could be the difference between signing a factory contract with HRC or signing a zero hours contract with Sports Direct. So what would life look like for our MotoGP legends if they hadn?t made it in the racing world and were forced to find normal jobs" Would they survive in the ?real world?" We?ve spent half an hour with the little-known clairvoyant Psychic Sally to bring you the facts?
Casey Stoner ? Teacher.

Casey Stoner, or ?Sir? to his pupils, would have put his grasp of the English language to good use. He’d have become an English teacher. Despite being Australian. And although his teaching career would have only started in earnest in the mid-noughties, he would bleat on about how much better teaching was in the old days, to anyone that would listen. ?There?s too much politics and bullshit now,? he probably would say. ?The kids need to be taught right from wrong. If that means hurling a board rubber at them every now and then, then so be it. But if you did that now, you?d be saying ?g?day mate? to a judge.?

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