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Yamaha and Fiat to continue together for two more years

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (an4rew @ Nov 4 2008, 03:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Good news... i like the bike but maybe they can make a new design for next season.

I agree with that. I'd like to see something different on the Yamaha for '09.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ky_savage @ Nov 4 2008, 11:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'd like to see something different on the Yamaha for '09.
Just be glad they've not got Petronas sponsoring them, like it's been rumoured they might have done.

Anything's better than that horrible green of the FP1.
 
who wants to bet that fiat drop yamaha the minute rossi retires/leaves them?
coincidence that they both signed on for 2 more years?
maximise the marketing potential of rossi, he wont be around forever.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigAl @ Nov 5 2008, 08:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>who wants to bet that fiat drop yamaha the minute rossi retires/leaves them?
coincidence that they both signed on for 2 more years?
maximise the marketing potential of rossi, he wont be around forever.



I fully agree.

At the oend of the day business is business...
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigAl @ Nov 5 2008, 08:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>who wants to bet that fiat drop yamaha the minute rossi retires/leaves them?

I'll bet on that, you wanna bet against?
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they won't drop yamaha if in the span of two years (assuming rossi retires after two years), jorge would be as good as, or nearly as good an endorser as rossi. for now, they're maximizing rossi's marketing potential, but the apprentice is doing good too.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (somedamnwriter @ Nov 6 2008, 05:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>they won't drop yamaha if in the span of two years (assuming rossi retires after two years), jorge would be as good as, or nearly as good an endorser as rossi. for now, they're maximizing rossi's marketing potential, but the apprentice is doing good too.

Giving for granted that the real apprentice/heir of Rossi at Yamaha is Lorenzo, whose contract (I think) expires at the end of 2009, and not someone else, still in 250, with no apparent hurry to move up before 2010...
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But even with the 'right' rider for them, the real problem of Fiat as a sponsor of Yamaha is a subtle conflict of interest. Fiat own Ferrari, and Ferrari are sooooo close to Ducati...
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J4rn0 @ Nov 6 2008, 03:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>1.Giving for granted that the real apprentice/heir of Rossi at Yamaha is Lorenzo, whose contract (I think) expires at the end of 2009, and not someone else, still in 250, with no apparent hurry to move up before 2010...
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2.But even with the 'right' rider for them, the real problem of Fiat as a sponsor of Yamaha is a subtle conflict of interest. Fiat own Ferrari, and Ferrari are sooooo close to Ducati...
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1. ahh, i forgot that little detail

2. you don't say!
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J4rn0 @ Nov 6 2008, 07:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>But even with the 'right' rider for them, the real problem of Fiat as a sponsor of Yamaha is a subtle conflict of interest. Fiat own Ferrari, and Ferrari are sooooo close to Ducati...
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In that they have just come second in the world championship?

Sorry couldn't resist...
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (xx CURVE xx @ Nov 6 2008, 03:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>So Rossi's contract ends a year before the Fiat/Yam contract then?

nope, they both end at the end of 2010 if i read it right...
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigAl @ Nov 6 2008, 12:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>nope, they both end at the end of 2010 if i read it right...

well...do you read it right?
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BlackKnight @ Nov 6 2008, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>In that they have just come second in the world championship?

Sorry couldn't resist...

Exactly! And last year, they were both 1st, weren't they
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Speak of parallel destinies...
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Then maybe next year both 3rd! (I say it for you, since you wouldn't have resisted!)
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