relieved.Casey Stoner’s “mystery virus” is a doozy: causing mid-race fatigue, nausea (he puked twice in his helmet in Catalunya), stomach cramps and arm-pump problems. Nobody can doubt its authenticity, seeing his pitiful state after the last three races

Casey Stoner – yes or no? That’s the burning question, with conspiracy theorists in overdrive. And the knock-on effect has been spectacular.Stoner stunned racing by pulling out for three races to recover from what appears to be post-viral fatigue

Lippy little git, Casey Stoner. He won no new friends when he spouted off at Rossi after losing the best race of the 800 era. That was in America, just before everyone went on holiday.It left fans world-wide to spend the ensuing weeks in castigating

The great medical mystery of MotoSoap 2009 remains unsolved. But, late in the series, the corpse has come back to life for the last 
few episodes.Casey Stoner wrote himself out of the series after the British GP and disappeared into the lost

of testing, and lots of days at home before the desert gem at Qatar.That, like several of the preceding Superbike rounds, was a damn good race ... once Stoner had fallen off out of a massively dominant lead. But it was precious little to keep the fans

Has Rossi got Stoner undone? Surely looks a bit like that, after three forced errors in a row. The only thing that argues against it is Stoner’s own impassive calm, after his two crash-outs at Brno and Misano. Both in the wake of his lippy

of last year was simply this: had we seen the old titan Rossi ousted? Was Stoner – all but the youngest ever Champion – at the start of a run of serial domination? Or was it all a trick of the light: a matter of electronics and tyres and horsepower, all

of last year was simply this: had we seen the old titan Rossi ousted? Was Stoner – all but the youngest ever Champion – at the start of a run of serial domination? Or was it all a trick of the light: a matter of electronics and tyres and horsepower, all

to adopt the universal Japanese industrial mantra: MUST WORK HARDER. The first task, so far unconquered, is to find a way to translate that into French.On to testing at Jerez, where Stoner blotted a perfect season with a heavy crash at the same corner where

or cadenza, or something like that. The most conspicuous thing about the Hayate badge, however, is that it is not Kawasaki.This is the Kawasaki that dare not speak its name.Is Casey Stoner in trouble, or is he just being wristy? News broke in the Australian