Ducati sponsors Marlboro have called on Casey Stoner to apologise for his three round absence from MotoGP racing due to illness.

Image from, and links-to, Casey Stoner's Web site.

This is a quote from the Carole Nash article available here: http://www.carolenash.com/insidebikes/bike-sport/sponsors-demand-apology-from-stoner.htm

Stoner has missed the last three rounds of the championship due to an illness that remains undetermined, much to the displeasure of the Ducati title sponsor, with Maurizio Arrivabene, deputy chairman for the tobacco giant has reported claimed that he is expecting an explanation from the 23-year-old.

“I hope that Stoner at Estoril will have the decency to apologise to the team,” Arrivabene told Italian television website Sportmediaset.

Obviously Arrivabene doesn’t know the meaning of “chronically ill”. He, and Marlboro (do you see the irony there?) should be ashamed.

Casey Stoner you ROCK! Get better man!