The 2007 MotoGP World Champion Casey Stoner is apparently recovering well from illness in his native Australia ahead of his scheduled return to action at the bwin.com Grande Premio de Portugal.
The Ducati Marlboro rider missed the visits to Brno, Indianapolis and Misano and returned to his family home in Tamworth, New South Wales, in order to try and fully recover from an illness which first affected him at the Barcelona race in June and which he was subsequently unable to overcome in the quick-fire rounds which followed at Assen, Laguna Seca, Sachsenring and Donington. MotoGP
The 2007 world champion has been fishing from the Nightcliff jetty and foreshore - and at Corroboree Billabong.
Stoner didn’t catch a barra - but cheekily posed with a smallish fish caught by another angler.
“I feel I’m getting better up here, and my appetite has really come back,” he said.
“We caught lots of fish, saw huge crocs and amazing birdlife - it was just like I expected Top End barra fishing to be.”
Stoner has pulled out of three grands prix this year due to his illness. But he said he would return to action on his Ducati GP9 at the Grand Prix of Portugal in October. Northern Territory
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