I don't understand the meaning of this sentence. Surely you were typing too fast. Sort of doesn't make sense. About the mystery illness, I have no memory of any statement by Stoner referring to it that way. The press (early on) did use some similar phrase, but it was not long after, stated at pressers that he had chronic fatigue, a very real illness that is not well understood. I recall a lot of Rossi fans who latched onto this issue as a way to slander Stoner by way of saying it was some imaginary disease he was conjuring up as an excuse for whatever it was they told themselves he needed an excuse for. The topper was IMHO the way Ducati mgmt. were ready to throw him under the bus. That to me, was an act of betrayal. Very much unworthy of them. Still he moved on to Honda and added to their championship count. I think at some level, the media did make things worse in the way they turned up the wick of public attention on his relationship with Rossi. The media are always wanting to add fuel to the fire to make a small thing into a "controversy" and that kind of manipulation of public perception can be aggravating, since it's all done by media hacks to sell adverts or clicks, the income from which lines their pockets, rather than any real desire to report on the sport of racing.
