MOTOGP: Stoner Mystery Deepens

The MotoGP race from Sachsenring, Germany will air at 6:00pm ET on Sunday, July 19. The 250 race will air at 2:00pm that same day.

Earlier this week ten minutes of tennis was too much for Casey Stoner. Little wonder the fast but increasingly frustrated Ducati rider holds little hope of a repeat win Sunday's German Grand Prix over 30 laps of the Sachsenring. That's about 42 minutes of racing in good weather.

"In the dry I don't think I can win but if it's wet maybe I'll have a chance to stay there until the end and fight," Stoner said as faces another uncertain weekend of physical fitness.

After a series of rigorous but inconclusive tests in California last week
the mystery has deepened on the debilitating illness that is slowing
Stoner, once close to untouchable on the red Ducati.

At the Sachsenring Stoner has contradicted the information in the Ducati team press release issued in advance of this race, which said he was suffering from mild anemia and slight gastritis.

He says that mild anemia is not the reason for problems and that the tests undertaken at Dr Ting's clinic in America following the U.S. Grand Prix have proved inconclusive.

"It is not anemia, the tests didn't show anything." Stoner said. "I did every test possible. All the blood tests came back perfect. I had the pipe down my throat, in my stomach and scans, a glucose test, everything. If one of the blood tests had shown something then I would done another test but they didn't show anything."