Ducati MotoGP Team riders Casey Stoner and Loris Capirossi go into the Portuguese Grand Prix aiming to obtain the best possible points haul before jetting overseas for the Japanese, Australian and Malaysian GPs. The remarkable Stoner currently leads the World Championship by an amazing 85 points after scoring his eighth win of the year at Misano earlier this month, while Capirossi lies eighth in the championship. And if at Estoril Stoner scores 15 points more than current second-placed rider Valentino Rossi, he will be crowned 2007 MotoGP World Champion. Stoner is on a roll at the moment - he has scored the 'triple crown' of pole position, race victory and fastest lap at the last three MotoGP events in the USA, Czech Republic and San Marino, his genius riding talent getting the absolute maximum out of his Desmosedici GP7 and its Bridgestone tyres. As the Australian says: "the more I ride the Ducati, the more comfortable I become and the faster I become".The 2007 MotoGP series enters its final phase after Estoril, with the three flyaway events followed by the season-ending Valencia GP on November 4.