Yamaha have now lost the Petronas sponsorship on top of losing the Fiat sponsorship last year according to motomatters. If they haven't got a new major sponsor up their sleeve this demonstrates the parlous state of things motogp, with Petronas looking like a natural sponsor for the sport as opposed to some others. Perhaps the commercial consequences of letting valentino rossi go also come into question.
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Perhaps Jorge could bring in some of the big Spanish sponsorship money that everyone alludes to...
Otherwise it's a sad commentary on the drawing power of Yamaha and MGP in general.
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So Yamaha, a full factory effort can't get a title sponsor, yet for a world champion on the team, and people think this CRT thing is going to work? The demise of GP is on its way unless they really get this thing together. Bring back the tire wars, tobacco sponsors, etc. I don't want to be right about it but ya know it is coming. Parts bin racing is on its way folks.
Im with RockGod Bring back Phillip Morris and the rest of the boys, Racing in General could really use the money.
Really glad yamaha have got a sponsor, and a fellow Japanese company with a product aligned with the sport is hopefully likely to stay solid.
If yamaha have gone for more money and certainty well and good. I am still disturbed if petronas are getting out of the sport totally, if so I doubt it is due to financial constraints. The FIAT thing was different, it seems to have been personal to valentino, and unlikely to survive his retirement if he had stayed with yamaha, although I guess petronas also may not have wanted to stay with the team perceived by some to have "sacked" valentino.
I still wonder whether valentino more or less told yamaha he wanted to retire after a repeat championship in 2009 then changed his mind.
One thing concerning which I agree with mental anarchist is that rossi's long run of success and great popularity and the cashflow it brought bred complacency in both the management of the sport and in the factories, with hitherto little planning for post-rossi motogp.
Tobacco sponsorship is never coming back. The only reason tobacco companies went racing in the first place is because tobacco advertising was banned, but sponsorship still allowed, so a massive surge into sports sponsorship ensued. TV advertising for cigarettes was banned in the late '60s /early '70s, which is when sponsorship of racing started. That got worse after tobacco sponsorship was banned for all sports except for car and bike racing. It meant the paddock was awash with money that it hadn't earned. Motorsports thought that they had a product which attracted sponsors, whereas in fact what they had was a product which only attracted sponsors with nowhere else to go.
Tobacco sponsorship was the worst thing that ever happened to MotoGP.
Tobacco sponsorship was the worst thing that ever happened to MotoGP.
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I thought manufacturer involvement was the worst thing that ever happened to MotoGP?
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WRONG, the worst thing that ever happend to motogp was the 800's and the stupid rules!
Kropo would argue its due to the 'manufacturer involvement'.
No, I would argue that Honda asked for the capacity reduction, and Honda got the capacity reduction. Indeed, there is evidence that Honda never wanted the 990s in the first place, and would have preferred to go straight from 500 two strokes to 500 or 600 four strokes.
Why are marlboro still allowed to sponsor ducati? It is not exactly highly subliminal.
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As far as I'm aware there is no rule against tobacco sponsoring motor sport, it has just changed in the fact the majority of countries don't allow tobacco to be advertised on TV (even via sponsorship)
I believe Qatar still allows it though? Or they did a few years ago anyway.
As far as I'm aware there is no rule against tobacco sponsoring motor sport, it has just changed in the fact the majority of countries don't allow tobacco to be advertised on TV (even via sponsorship)
I believe Qatar still allows it though? Or they did a few years ago anyway.
