Stoner's mystery illness continues to take its toll

It appears Stoner's apparently improving competativeness belied a condition far more serious than optimists like myself had expected.

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Ducati have confirmed rumours of Stoner sitting out at least three races.

It's really sad to see Stoner resorting to sitting out races. His attitude on the track and in front of the press had been extremely negative for a while - contrasting his mature performances at the start of the year. I was hoping, like many, that a few weeks' break would see a further improvement of his condition and increasing competativeness at rounds at which we could expect strong performances.

It's not to be it seems.

The most disheartening factor is that we still have very little indication about what is causing his condition, and with news like this it becomes apparent that his problems are much more severe than tiredness over race distance.

All hoping he has recovered for the final string of rounds starting in Portugal, and in particular can have another strong performance at home at the end of October.


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