La notizia è di quelle facili da riportare:
Il trend che vede aumentare, anno dopo anno, l’impegno in Moto2 delle case coinvolte anche in MotoGP è destinato a crescere.
Dopo MV, KTM e dal prossimo anno, anche Yamaha, impegnate nella classe cadetta con Moto2 che hanno un motore ovviamente Triumph e un telaio proprio o comunque derivato da qualcosa già in griglia (Kalex, principalmente), ecco arrivare altri big.
Ducati, ma soprattutto Suzuki, questi i rumors, sarebbero pronti ad entrare in Moto2 a partire dal 2023 ma visto il tipo di impegno qualcuno potrebbe fare anche prima..
Suzuki, nello specifico, sarebbe già molto avanti nelle trattative, avendo un canale aperto con il team Aspar per completare l’operazione anche se Aspar sembrerebbe aver già chiuso con Gas Gas.
Il grande cambiamento, che potrebbe aver luogo addirittura a partire dal 2023, è in realtà un cambiamento piccolo.
Non si tratta di progettare nuove moto o di far entrare realmente delle case in un campionato che non hanno mai corso, ma solo di allargare la griglia o, addirittura, nel caso si ritenga che il numero di moto attualmente schiarate sia sufficiente, iniettare un paio di brand in team già esistenti.
Una volta chiarito il rumor, è il momento di capire il perché di tutto questo. Ovvero a cosa può servire esattamente, chiamare Ducati o Suzuki delle Kalex motorizzate Triumph.
La prima ragione è legata al mercato. Per una casa è molto più semplice e meno costoso mettere su un team (o addirittura chiamare col suo nome uno già esistente), che pagare a suon di milioni per avere piloti già sotto contratto con altre squadre come KTM o Yamaha, che invece hanno i loro top rider su un binario sin dalle classi junior. KTM, Team Asia, insegnano che ormai i rider si mettono sotto contratto subito e la cosa è dimostrata dal fatto che KTM ha i migliori rookies disponibili in automatico per l’anno prossimo, tanto da non sapere dove metterli.
La seconda ragione è legata al Brand.
Del pubblico attuale, solo una ridotta percentuale è consapevole del fatto che una classe che fa fatica ad ottenere un’attenzione mainstream, schieri moto con motore Triumph e telaio Kalex o Boscoscuro che sia.
Le moto vengono chiamate con il nome del team che comunicano, o dello sponsor. La stampa di rincoglioniti, fa il resto. Addormentata sui macrotemi finanziari e politici e occupata com’è solo a rastrellare click con dichiarazioni distorte, fattoidi, desideri e speranze del beniamino di turno, non passerebbe certo le giornate a ripetere che le Ducati Moto2 non sono veramente delle Ducati, come del resto non accade attualmente nemmeno per le MV o per le KTM.
La stampa, ed è ormai conclamato, anche in caso di siti cosiddetti specializzati, è interessata solo al mass clicking e quest’ultimo non si consegue di certo con quelli che per casalinghe e ragazzini sono tecnicismi.
Già c’è da sopravvivere al ritiro di Valentino, figuriamoci se si va tanto per il sottile con dettagli scaccia click.
E Dorna è contenta di fare la brutta copia della F1, quindi basterebbe già questo per far tornare tutto.
Tanal fuori dai giochi. Letteralmente.
Non quelli degli sponsor, nonostante tutti gli interlocutori sembrino scomparsi e resta da vedere, in caso arrivino i soldi, come arrivano e da dove.
One last flicker is expected in Misano but it is not known for sure.
The Holding Company of Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Bin Saud Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has not been seen or heard from again but it is not just a MotoGP issue.
Su internet della holding c’è molto poco. Un sito web alquanto strano (ne abbiamo parlato qui), qualche contenzioso finito male (ne abbiamo parlato qui),ma soprattutto un brand che, di fatto NON ESISTE.
Tanal fatturerebbe, a detta del principe in persona durante una surreale conferenza stampa, 100 miliardi di dollari, ma non ha un marchio registrato.
And this is one of those things that pisses off game makers.
They may be playing games, but that's serious business, moving millions, ending up on devices of a certain level, and forever printed in products intended to be played for a long time.
Ma cosa vuol dire che Tanal e le altre aziende arabe sono fuori dai giochi?
Che Tanal, presente sulle moto di VR46 con adesivi e loghetti, insieme ad altre aziende dello stesso blocco non sarà invece presente sulle moto che compariranno nel gioco MotoGP. Non si può fare.
Milestone, which updates game liveries, will not update VR46 's with Tanal logos because of licensing issues because, rumors report, the trademark does not exist. It did not happen as in other cases in F1 that the game manufacturer did not find agreements with companies. In this case, the companies themselves are missing and the trademarks are not registered.
Renault F1 Real with real brands
Renault F1 game without unauthorized trademarks
Moto2 reale con marchi attuali
Moto2 game without brands Tanal, Maic, KSA
MotoGP reale con tutti marchi
MotoGP game senza marchi Tanal, Maic, KSA
Quali siano le modalità della sponsorizzazione di Tanal e VR46 non è dato sapere. Uccio Salucci ha dichiarato di aver ricevuto del danaro ma, di fatto, Tanal, Maic Technologies, Fantastic City KSA, non sono marchi registrati da nessuna parte. Per non parlare del fatto che di Maic Technologies non esiste proprio niente da nessuna parte. Per questo motivo non compariranno, a meno di qualche cambiamento dell’ultim’ora, nemmeno nel gioco.
Per quanto riguarda Aramco, non ne parliamo neanche…
Questo è l’unico caso in cui qualcuno si preoccupa della differenza fra aziende paganti come SKY, WithU etc, e aziende non paganti.
Perché se invece sono paganti emerge la curiosità del come e del perché, visto che non esistono.
In short, the only ones who are serious about it seem to be the ones making the games.
Tanal out of the game. Literally.
And this is not about the sponsoring game, since all the interlocutors seem to have disappeared. There’s still to check, if money will arrive, where from and how it will come out.
A final flash is expected in Misano but it is not known for sure.
The Holding of Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Bin Saud Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has no longer been seen or heard but it is not just a MotoGP problem.
On the internet theres little trace of the holding. A rather strange website (we talked about it here), some litigation ended badly (we talked about it here), but above all a brand that, at the facts, DOES NOT EXIST.
Tanal would bill, according to the Prince himself during a surreal press conference, 100 billion dollars, but does not have a registered trademark.
And that's of those things that piss off video game makers.
They are games but that is a serious business, which moves millions of euros, ends up on devices of a certain level, and remains forever printed in products destined to be played for a long time.
But what does it mean that Tanal is out of the game?
That Tanal, present on the VR46 bikes with stickers and logos, together with other companies of the same block will not be present on the bikes that will appear in the MotoGP game graphics. It can not be done.
Milestone company updating the liveries of the games will not update those of VR46 with the Tanal logos due to licensing problems because, according to rumors, the brand does not exist, actually. It has not happened as in other cases in F1 that the game manufacturer has not found agreements with the companies. In this case, the companies are missing and the brands are not registered.
Real Renault F1 with real brands
Game Renault F1 without unauthorized brands
Real Moto2 with current brands
Game Moto2 without Tanal, Maic, KSA brands
Real MotoGP with current brands
Game MotoGP without Tanal, Maic, KSA brands
What are the methods of sponsorship of Tanal and VR46 is not known. Uccio Salucci stated that he received some money but, and this is a fact, Tanal, Maic Technologies, Fantastic City KSA, are not registered trademarks anywhere. Not to mention the fact that there is absolutely nothing of Maic Technologies anywhere and anyhow.
For this reason they will not appear, unless some last minute changes, not even in the game.
This is the only case in this story where anyone cares about the difference between paying companies like SKY, WithU etc, and non-paying companies.
Because if they are paying, the curiosity of how and why emerges, given that they do not exist.
In short, the only ones who do things seriously seem to be the ones who play.
My positions on the Vr46 issue are well known. I have expressed them in a video and several articles or posts. And you can read the main articles here.
I have many doubts and have documented them all.
Despite the fact that I have, unlike others, explained all my reasons, and perhaps because of that, I have been ignored, then belittled, attacked and insulted. How I could be the obstacle toward a partnership in which every day people believe less and less but do not want to admit it.
I write because of the love I have for motorsports and the fear that some small operator will be harmed by what I believe is a hoax.
I don't know if there are scammers. There is certainly a lot of amateurism and naiveté. The most dangerous ingredients when it comes to money.
Only a naive person does not detect anomalies bordering on the absurd in this whole story and, even more so, in the Prince's latest press conference with a small number of journalists and two staffers.
1) Come mai è stata invitata solo la stampa Italiana? 2) Come mai sono stati invitati solo 7 giornalisti, due solo dei quali, extra settore? 3) Come mai moltissimi siti di motori ad alta visibilità non sono stati inclusi? 4) Come mai non erano presenti, né emissari di Dorna, né di VR46 che pure dovrebbero essere partner dell’iniziativa? 5) Come mai non è stata invitata Ducati nonostante in occasione della presentazione della nuova avventura, la foto è stata fatta con Ezpeleta, Salucci e Dall’Igna? 6) Come mai non è stata organizzata una piattaforma professionale e il governante di uno stato si è connesso ad una app pubblica, con tutti i pericoli del caso? 7) Come mai non è stato indicato alcun advisor per l’operazione, né tantomeno una banca garante, oltre agli studi legali delle due parti, cosa obbligatoria? 8) come mai SKY, che aveva due giornalisti presenti, da settimane non nomina nemmeno più Tanal? 9) Come mai SKY che fa 8 post al giorno su Rossi, da giorni non nomina più alcun principe dopo che per settimane non ha parlato d’altro e ha aspettato 3 giorni per fare un post sulla conferenza?
The idea we got was that the press conference served to show that there is a prince. Because this thing had been questioned and because, according to some, it would be enough to show a person in a robe to legitimize everything. Because after all, in the wake of the other statements, they thought that just as it was to be considered impossible for all these initiatives to be doubted, it would be equally impossible to be able to doubt a prince after seeing him, albeit in the grainy mode of a poorly organized conference call.
Instead, according to the writer, and unfortunately according to really few others (only Massimo Calandri of Repubblica expressed marked misgivings), it did not go very well.
The people who "ran" the conference do not have the credibility needed for an operation of the level they want people to believe they have.
"Before the prince enters," began Architect Bernardini (who is not an architect), getting the first of a few conjunctives wrong in his opening. An architect who speaks French poorly, English almost not at all, and gets Latin quotations wrong (the Errata "Corrìgge" requested on the phone still rumbles in my head) and Italian subjunctives wrong. One who confuses Overseas with Oversize already speaks volumes.
Per non parlare della Head of Press and Communication Tanal Entertainment, Arianna Pasquale, che non sa il francese e soprattutto ha un livello di inglese da bambino, non conoscendo la differenza fra questions e answers, coniugando frasi mischiando lingue diverse come Salvatore ne Il nome della Rosa.
E’ il primo Head of Press and Communication che non parla le due lingue delle entità che rappresenta e che non ha alcuna esperienza di conunicazione e relazioni pubbliche internazionali, dato che non esiste nessuna traccia della sua attività in merito. Del resto nei comunicati non c’è un suo contatto personale, quindi almeno non dovrà rispondere ai giornalisti come invece dovrebbe fare chi ricopre il suo ruolo. Meglio così, perché in conferenza stampa la performance è ben al di sotto degli standard di una piccola Pro Loco.
On the prince, doubts grow. He doesn't look much like the one in Wikipedia and, more importantly, despite having studied in the UK, so the encyclopedia says, he speaks English poorly. The French, on the other hand, is that of the North Africans who used to come and buy boats and engines from my grandfather, a fishing boat broker in Molfetta, who used to introduce me to these characters who, when they go abroad, dress up as Arabs to have more credibility, but are instead Maghrebi. Some connection with the Korean Moroccan Holding Group also run by Bernardini would come naturally, but let's leave it at that, as there are far greater doubts.
The background of the press conference, of which we have managed to get both audio and video and are proving it to you with details, may be that of the summer residence, but we an austerity of this level we have not seen even in a massage parlor (don't ask us where this analogy comes from).
Does anyone tell us that this gentleman, with a mini PC on his lap (he has no conference hall screen), who is supposed to be a graduate of a prestigious European university with a past as a minister is the real prince? All right. At this point we are sorry that he is letting his representative answer the questions. And that he either doesn't know the numbers of his initiatives or shoots them off the top of his head (the figures reported are at the level of Microsoft, Google and Facebook). Not to mention Tanal who obviously does everything while being nowhere, proof of nothing.
The head of a private fund that is about to spend a billion openly declares that they made a mistake in setting up the operation that should be communicated first in Saudi Arabia than abroad. They would like to build cities, parks, racetracks, cars and motorcycles, but they do not know that communiqués should be issued internally first. Yet in the Saudi press NOTHING EXISTS ABOUT TANAL'S ACTIVITIES. Tanal is never mentioned except when talking about a neighborhood of houses in Rhyad. Amateurism. Tanal does not exist except in communiqués bounced around on the two-wheeler sites and elsewhere, which published everything they received, without ever verifying it, and making it superficially credible thanks to a link popularity in which they were complicit.
Who knows why, on the other hand, at the same time, another private Saudi fund, PIF, acquired Pagani Automobili without warning anyone at all, yet communicating, when it was done, shareholders (complete with % details), banks involved, board of advisors, law firms and corporate offices.
So on the one hand we have UBS Investment Bank as Pagani's exclusive financial advisor, Withers Studio Legale as legal advisor to the selling shareholders, Rothschild & Co and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as financial advisors and legal advisors to the fund. On the other hand, we have Bernardini, Arianna Pasquale, who has no experience in communications with international agencies, Uccio Salucci, Alberto Tebaldi, and Giampiero Sacchi, team manager of the bankrupt Ioda Racing who accompanied them all to Carmelo Ezpeleta.
Neither is a guarantor bank or lawyers. Almost the same.
There is talk of 18 million for 5 years and it is not clear who, how, when and by what means will pay.
I bought cars with more paperwork and people involved.
To the timid questions, the trio raises again and displaces with a hypothetical sponsorship, also for Dorna. It is one of the clichés that has been going on since April.
The plans laid out in the clumsiest press conference of all time, with journalists afraid to do their jobs lest they discover something they don't like and lecturers left galloping in the pastures of fantasy, are the same as the surreal releases already issued in the past.
The ones that had alerted us, to be clear. And now more details further alarm us.
Prendete carta e penna per fare il conto. I parchi diventano un investimento da 300 milioni.
Le città sono più di una, con quella che vede impegnato il solo Principe, Fantastic City, a costare, da sola, 75 miliardi.
200 million is for car and motorcycle factories. Cars and motorcycles that, perhaps the prince does not know, would become the first case of automotive production in Arab countries.
And the prince does not wonder why there is no precedent for this. But the prince's family, moderate motorcyclists who used to race but now go slow, "has been importing Moto Guzzis, Ferraris, Autobianchi and Lancias to Saudi Arabia for years." A gluttonous detail to be written in the newspapers, which is therefore necessarily likely and yet not true, because Autobianchi and Lancia in Saudi Arabia have never been imported, and Ferraris come from the Emirates where the importer is Al Tayer. Go ahead and explain this one to us as well.
For that matter, given the little resistance of cross-examination, even on the Aramco issue, which is dismissed with "we said we weren't talking about it," the revival has been freewheeling.
The interest in motorsports of previous releases and statements becomes, during the press conference, the purchase of the Modena circuit in addition to the construction of a test track in Saudi Arabia.
The love of motorsport, becomes the purchase of an F1 team, but without specifying what that might be.
Per non parlare della costruzione (finalmente) di un circuito in Arabia Saudita per poter poi organizzare (finalmente) un GP nel paese, dimenticando che un circuito, in Arabia Saudita c’è già, a Jeddah, e lo ha costruito Tilke, che è architetto davvero.E c’è anche già un Grand Prix, previsto dal 3 al 5 dicembre di quest’anno. Altro che gli eventi Tanal che non si fanno mai.
L’account della Formula1 ha pubblicato già una simulazione di gara con le 27 curve della pista, il 18 marzo. Lo hanno visto in 600mila ma non il trio di press conferenzieri. Questi signori, insomma, credono di essere pionieri di una cosa che esiste già da un po’. E nessuno dei giornalisti di motori presenti (alcuni direttori di testata) , fra SKY, Gazzetta dello Sport, GPOne, Motosprint, fa una piega a riguardo. Mio padre, però, che ha 76anni e non naviga su Internet, lo sa. Lo ha letto su Il Mesaggero.
E via così anche per tutto il resto.
Rilanciato il Fantastic Trophy, che per essere un progetto che parte a settembre è leggermente in ritardo, non essendo stata ancora costruita la moto con cui si deve correre, mentre le mongolfiere che avrebbero dovuto seguire la manifestazione, prendono vita e si trasformano, secondo Bernardini, in un evento internazionale:
"The organization of an international hot air balloon championship called the Ambassador Cup that in the various press releases was never announced because in the last two months we have read all about it," says the architect.
We read them, but someone wrote them down. Not to mention that the Balloon Ambassador Cup, to be held, we imagine, in Umbria, already exists under another name. It is called the Sagrantino Cup, has been held in Todi since 34 Lanni, and is organized by British aeronaut Ralph Shaw. The photos shown at the press conference are taken right from the Umbro event website. I wonder what Shaw thinks of it.
Sagrantino Cup
This fixation on Umbria and on borrowing, making them one's own, from projects that already exist is a leitmotif we have reported on before.
On a venue, an idea, an event, you put the Tanal brand, Photoshop is fine, and launch into the future. The list is long. Newspapers write confidently, and the media tamtam is created that determines a credibility with which to present oneself.
But sooner or later it has to be paid. The money is expected on Wednesday, so we will see if it is all as they say, despite the ministerial traffic light system that has been postponing for months the agreement that is declared as signed but without any handouts (another mystery).
But even if the money were real, someone has to explain why all these false credentials, bogus locations, projects that do not exist, made-up numbers and a Prince who is not informed about anything he is about to invest in, assisted by a structure that, in practice, does not exist and does not resemble anything that is put up in these cases.
And in any case, it is not true that if the money comes in everything is fine. In the first place there must be transparency and traceability.
If not, we could partner with anyone, including states that continually violate human rights at every level.
But maybe this someone is already willing to do that.
And they like the idea so much that nothing else matters and everything seems normal.
Max Biaggi cambia team.
Gresini darà in gestione il team Moto3 e lo darà a Max Biaggi che porterà con se lo sponsor Sterilgarda.
Max, attualmente appoggiato come logistica ad un team tedesco, lascia quindi il pacchetto attuale e trasferisce tutto in una struttura migliore.
Cosa cambia, di fatto? Per il momento niente, se non che Max Biaggi sarà in grado di lavorare meglio, dato che la struttura “cresciuta” da Fausto Gresini è sicuramente top level.
Sterilgarda, come già detto, da sempre legata al Corsaro, seguirà il 6 volte campione del mondo in questo passaggio.
Il sito Corsedimoto ha diffuso una news pubblicata dal sito www.mattiapascal.com che afferma che nei miei confronti è stata proposta una querela. SORPRENDENTEMENTE però non viene precisato che è stato lo stesso Paolo Gozzi, direttore di Corsedimoto a querelarmi . Se ne è dimenticato.
Il GUP ha disposto il rinvio a giudizio per un processo tutto da iniziare e NON SONO STATO CONDANNATO. Faccio notare che la querela è stata proposta subito dopo la mia richiesta di essere pagato per la collaborazioni con il suddetto sito.
PER QUESTA VICENDA PAOLO GOZZI, DIRETTORE DEL SITO CORSEDIMOTO, E’ INVECE GIÀ STATO CONDANNATO DAL TRIBUNALE IN VIA DEFINITIVA CON SENTENZA N 81 DEL 2020 ED HA GIA’ EFFETTUATO IL BONIFICO.
ANCHE DI QUESTA COSA NEL SUO ARTICOLO, SI E’ DIMENTICATO.
IT MAY SEEM LIKE A COINCIDENCE, BUT THESE THINGS HAPPEN WITH SINGULAR TIMING WHEN THE TRUTH IS BEING TOLD, A TRUTH THAT WILL ALSO BE PROVEN IN THE APPROPRIATE COURTS. I WILL KEEP EVERYONE UPDATED OF THE FURTHER FOLLOW UP. GOOD READING.
DISCLAIMER Usually those who spoil parties are never nice and seem to do so out of envy, spite, or who knows what. Assuming that this is the case, that is, that we are indeed spoiling a party, it is good to clarify the meaning of this piece. The only purpose is to protect all those who might, as collateral victims, stumble upon a matter that is likely to be unclear. Obviously we believe in the good faith of all parties involved, but at the same time we would like to point out some doubts about the matter. Many things do not add up and we raise a flag. If we got something wrong, we are ready to rectify it. For the last time, we would be happy if this whole affair was a big misunderstanding.
All the documentation, recorded phone calls, emails and communications we have collected, is available to the Judiciary.
PROLOGUE
Since May 6 on this site we have been busy seeking information and clearing some doubts about the communicated partnership between Tanal Entertainment Sport and Media, and VR46 with the sponsorship of Aramco, for the 2022 MotoGP adventure on Ducati.
With the VR46 partnership statements still fresh, some doubts were already coming to light, unfortunately only on our part, related to the fact that, first of all, there were no signatures or quotation marks in the press release, and then the first denials from the oil company had already arrived.
FIRST DENIALS
More than three months, almost four, have passed since late April, and there have been two more denials. The first came in late June and the second, in Assen. The latter is really the heaviest, as it came from the mouth of the CEO of the oil company, Aramco Oversea, Al Murri.
Let us briefly give a summary history.
1) Denial by Aramco's press account, Adam Jibali, contact person for the Brunswick Group agency, which handles Aramco 's relations not in the UK but around the world.
"There is no strategic agreement between Aramco and VR46. There has never been any business relationship between Tanal Entertainment and Aramco." That alone would have been enough to worry about.
2) Some sites would later receive requests from Aramco Uk regarding the removal of the news of the Aramco deal from the news sites complete with a request for correction and with an official statement about Aramco 's absolute unrelatedness to VR46 and MotoGP. Few concerns here either, except from a handful of professionals, only foreigners.
3) To close, the CEO of Aramco Oversea, host of the Pramac team, would again and personally deny being involved in the deal. When the prince's words were allegedly pointed out to him, he would reply, "Do you know how many princes we have in Saudi Arabia?" A statement-an explanation that is hard to ignore.
It must be said, however, that Aramco could and could have made a little more effort to deny and say, on the record and once and for all, the same things it has been saying to various journalists face to face or mail to mail, in short, as it did to us.
These three boulders, with the addition of the latest denial that we also received directly from Brunswick Group on July 27, clarify Aramco 's point of view and downplay the repeated reassurances that allegedly came from the Saudi Prince. Arguably, despite the undoubted good faith, there is some distance between willingness to sponsor directly (through Aramco) or indirectly, by having Aramco go through Tanal Entertainment, and actually being able to do so lightly, ending up in the hull with certain brands. Provided everything is true, including the prince appearing in photographs alongside reassuring statements, but never in a video or in person.And allow us, everyone is free to have doubts and manifest them. Not least because Tanal Global Holding is one thing, and Tanal Entertainment Sport and media, another--and we will see that at least one of the two does not seem to exist.
SAUDI PRINCE'S ITALIAN ADVISER AND STRANGE PRESS OFFICE
We were recently contacted by the Prince's Councilor, Architect Marco Bernardini, who wanted us to make some clarifications, which, however, are nothing more than statements similar to those already issued through communiqués.
We point out that at the Order of Architects we could not find but one namesake in Liguria. "Our" Architect Marco Bernardini, we are not aware of.
Returning to the phone call, the architect was keen to illustrate how from the site Tanal and the network of releases, we could have inferred the goodness and absolute reliability of the initiative. Too bad the architect was not referring to Tanal Global Holding but to Tanal Entertainment, and there is no trace of the latter on the web.
We were later written to by Ms. Arianna Pasquale (we found no trace of her anywhere), Head Press Officer of Tanal Entertainment and Media, who, however, raised further doubts and perplexities in us. Let us see them.
EMAIL ADDRESS AND PRESS OFFICE
We found it quite peculiar that a multinational communications company with a dedicated site does not have a personalized email address, although in fact Tanal Entertainment does not have a site at all. The email came to us from tanalentertainment.press@gmail.com
This is unheard of in a similar field.
They make cities of the future and don't have a dedicated corporate email.
The same message, signed by Arianna Pasquale, contained no phone number, either personal or from the office.
The job of a press office is to get tracked down to provide information and clarification. This is not the case here.
The office has no address, email, landline, mobile, fax, etc. A website is not listed either. We went looking for it. And we did not find it.
Tanal Entertainment and Media is running several million-dollar partnerships with several international partners and has no website. We did, however, find that of Tanal Global Holding, which is also troubling.
Mail Press Office
DOUBTS ON THE WEBSITE OF MULTINATIONAL TANAL GLOBAL HOLDING
First, the mismatch between Tanal Entertainment and Tanal Global Holding. The website of Tanal Global Holdings with the S https://www.tanalglobalholdings.com/ is quite unique.
It is first of all made with a program for pre-packaged sites, specifically Jimdo. One can make a site there for a few euros by copying from various pre-packaged templates.
A multinational company that does billion-dollar projects did not contract a web agency to make its site. Quite unique.
And still it shows. The site is sloppily made.
Multilingualism is also not present. This is also quite strange for a multinational company that operates in 37 countries around the world.
THE NEWS IS NOT THERE
With all the high prestige and visibility initiatives, the news section is strangely under construction. Announcements are sent out, so the news would be there, but strangely it is not on the site. This is the first case of this kind for a high-level holding company. And also of a somewhat lower level.
President and Vice Presidents of Tanal Global Holdings are two Saudi princes whose names, however, are slightly different from those of the royal family found on Wikipedia, to be clear, even though they correspond to the owners of Tanal Entertainment Sport and Media.
It may happen that some transcripts are not quite identical.
We can overlook that as well.
There is a global network with a map and cities where the locations would be. However, there is not even an address to reach them. Not even an address of even one location. Yet we are talking about about 40 locations in 37 countries around the world, no continent excluded.
As advisor there is a name and a phone number.
No response to the call. As email address an email @tanalglobalholdings in the name Omar, and a gmail address.
Again, quite unique. Omar has an email with no last name in a multinational company.
Tanal News Section
A CLIENT PORTFOLIO WITHOUT CLIENTS
In the portfolio there is a list of activities in which Tanal is involved.
There are so many, but not a single client is listed in the client portfolio. Not a single specific initiative is listed among the many listed in the various releases. Quite unique.
Fra i partners presenti, ne abbiamo chiamati alcuni.
Di quelli che parlano inglese nessuno conosce Tanal ma un paio ci hanno già detto che è stata fatta loro questa domanda. Hanno chiesto a noi come mai. Forse è qualcuno che ha le nostre stesse curiosità.
GLOBAL SECTION OF THE SITES
Many offices in various countries have the same email address despite the fact that the contact persons are people with different names.
In various countries even far apart Omar always responds who has a gmail email address in common with other contact persons.
Strange this too however maybe these things happen.
The site's privacy policy is google's standard one, and it's not even customized for the referring site.
A bit of laziness, but it is still illegal. In Tanal they may not know this.
THE CURIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED
Tanal, whether Global Holding or Entertainmente, does not appear to have carried out any activities prior to May.
All initiatives seem to start from that month, following the announcements of the agreement with VR46 in late April.
Only the latest activities may have been selected, but even on the web one can find almost nothing from before that period.
The first release we are going to talk about is the last one in chronological order regarding the upcoming (but it has already passed without having happened) participation of TANAL ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS & MEDIA WITH YAYA EVENTS AT THE ANDALUSIA RALLY 2021 TEST LIVE prologue of an unclear FANTASTIC TROPHY COMPETITION, which is supposed to be an intercontinental gaming competition mixed with hyper-realistic reality.
The connection is not clear but that's okay. The Andalusia Rally is a car event, though. On the photos, however, there is a gentleman who is supposed to be doing the Dakar on a motorcycle. The driver in question is also CEO of an Edutainment company that often appears in Tanal's press releases and partners. Jader Giraldi, is photographed next to a motorcycle but is participating in a car rally. Or so it is explained. Quite curious. Or we didn't understand it ourselves.
We tried to reach Mr. Giraldi but it was not posibiile to talk to him.
The list of various partners for the rest is quite clear: in addition to Tanal Entertainment Sport and Media we have Yaya Events, a company of the motorcyclist motorist, Maic Technologies, a specialist in biodetection systems.
All of these partners would be part of the Tiburtec technology hub , overseen by Architect Bernardini, the Prince's advisor, inside the Via Peroni headquarters in the Tiburtino Technopole, between Rome and Tivoli.
The location of the large, modern building also appears in the release, with all the logos of the many partner companies in plain view. The building, however, is a render, a graphic proof.
In reality the building exists, but on Google the color, the gardens, and the facade, which does not feature the company logos shown in the conunication, are slightly different.
We went to the site and indeed there is no logo on the facade. We spoke with some employees and the building's concierge and it was confirmed that none of the companies listed had ever resided within the complex or received mail. Or at least they, perhaps apart from Korean, do not know them. Not all companies need to be surveyed in a complex but then how come an untrue image was provided of a building that does not have those logos? What is the point of showing a counterfeit location?
The concierge and employees of the building assured us that the logos were never on the building, which instead are prominently displayed in the photo of Tiburtec included in Tanal's statement. For the record, Tiburtec is a real existing company but it administers condominiums.
Among the many companies mentioned, quite interesting is KMHG - Korean Moroccan Holding Group, an association of Moroccan expatriates in Korea, at least that's what we found, which is described as an expert in analytics.
It is a Holding Company which, however, barring our mistakes, we understand has only one employee. He must be a very good one who can do a lot of things. But being, that company, chaired by Marco Bernardini, we get the doubt that the architect is modest and does not want to appear too many times so as not to take too much credit.
Thus, somewhat surprisingly, the release also finds a place in the press release for the presentation of a project for a 4-wheel-drive hybrid motorcycle that should start from a video game and go on to a movie based on a book, and then be produced.
Tanal hybrid Moto
The video game we could not find. The book exists but we found no trace of the filming that should have been going on for a year in the city of Gubbio in addition to Rome, New York Jeddah, Riyadh and Moscow. For New York Moscow and other foreign cities we have given up but at the municipality of Rome and the municipality of Gubbio we have not found anyone aware that they have been shooting a film in their city for a year.
However, we are happy that the exclusive prototype motorcycle that will also be used on the set of the film called "Edward Loth - Najima The Fantastic City" produced by Tanal Entertainmet Sport & Media together with an Italian co-production and other international partners, based on the book by best-selling author Philip Osbourne, will kick off the mass production of the motorcycle in question designed by C Creative, a company owned by Claudio Castiglioni, in a factory located in Terni and managed by Giampiero Sacchi,the same person who at Mugello accompanied along with the VR46 men, architect Bernardini to Dorna by Carmelo Ezpeleta hoping that this project will have different results from those from the bankruptcy of Sacchi's Terni racing company, Ioda Racing, which unfortunately sees its assets subject to judicial auction and several people left without work and with payments to be received.
The bike however, though only a drawing, is beautiful and we hope it will actually be produced. Only thing: in another statement, also from Tanal, it is announced that the bike will instead be produced in Saudi Arabia.
There is some uncertainty. Someone tell that to Giampiero Sacchi, who may be preparing the plant in Terni.
For now, however, there is no great danger, since all the plans are future and nothing has been realized yet.
THE MAZZANTI SUPERCAR THAT DOESN'T EXIST YET
Somewhat simpler is the statement about the Mazzanti Evantra hyper car, which fortunately exists even if in earlier models and is produced in the number of 5 examples per year. In truth, since 2015 there have been no nameplate models. Only a few prototypes, at least that is how it seems to us.
Mazzanti is reported to have less than 10 employees with an annual personnel cost of about 81,000 euros. And so we assume that at Mazzanti, unless we are looking at exploitation, there should be just a couple of employees.
Returning to the car in the communiqué, of this model that does not yet exist, 57 are to be produced, by a factory that does not currently have a single license plate, in an upgraded 1111hp armored and fire-resistant version with inviolable anti-theft device. The cars will, of course, be produced in the future in a 275-thousand-square-meter plant also directed by Architect Bernardini, which will see the light of day in Saudi Arabia in the future and will employ hundreds of Arab engineers starting in the 2030s. A made in Italy made in Saudi Arabia. And it would be the first automobile factory in history located in one of those countries.
Evantra-MBS-ONE-1111-HP (render)
It is obviously all very interesting but also quite thrown forward in years, especially if we are talking about a hypercar.
In the meantime, however, the car will appear, not to mention, in the aforementioned film "Edward Loth - Najima The Fantastic City" and in various video games in the form of a flying tank in special effect mode since, as stated above, it does not exist. It all happens in that movie.
The good fortune, this time, is that on the Mazzanti Automobili website there is a reference to the communiquéeven though the words are the same as in Luxurious Magazine which itself reports the Tanal communiqué, as if Mazzanti is reporting the communiqué of others on its own initiative. "It looks like a Lotus," they say, but it is only a drawing. The car will be different. Mazzanti has not released information on this issue. We will have to wait a few years for the plant and then the cars to be produced. Patience is needed.
In the meantime, however, Tanal sends out his proclamations and the press takes them up confidently, and with partnerships declared and taken up by the press, it is a little easier to find other partnerships.
FANTASTIC TROPHY COMPETITION
In one of the releases regarding the association with VR46, in fact, perhaps one of the least read since it does not speak directly about Motogp, there is another rather curious initiative that deserves attention: the FANTASTIC TROPHY COMPETITION, defined as a new two-wheel sports competition designed by
Tanal Entertainment Sports & Media to create a new competition format with unique features. Unlike the best-known competitions, the release reads, Fantastic Trophy Competition uses two different types of courses: in the desert in Saudi Arabia and on dirt roads in Italy. As in all Tanal initiatives it starts in Umbria and ends in Saudi Arabia doing the Paris Dakar in a sort of Riad.
The format of the competition, the release continues, is similar to a video game: immersed in reality, using the interaction between two wheels, satellites, drones, hot air balloons; real-time interaction with the stable in the field and the audience at home. The use of advanced virtual reality, communication and navigation technologies, interactive platforms for digital and telemetry stream management will be provided by Korean Moroccan Holding Group, in collaboration with leading Korean players in the industry.
Let us not forget, however, that the Korean Moroccan Holding Group, turns out to be an association of Moroccan emigrants in Korea and has, if we are not mistaken, only one employee, its president, architect Bernardini, who of course if he believes can correct and disprove our claims. Not to mention that the telematic flows in other releases were entrusted to Maic.
Keep these two companies in mind.
However, in this case from a time perspective we are lucky because the final format will be presented by September 2021 and then, the release says, could announce a test race from November to December on two routes, one Italian and one Saudi.
One in KSA - in the desert from Fantastic City, which still as a city we remember, does not exist to KAEC on the Red Sea - and one on off-road tracks in Italy, starting in Tavullia, Gubbio and Terni, where MAIC Technologies is designing and building the first prototype four-wheel-drive off-road motorcycle with hybrid, thermal and electric propulsion, while plant production is planned in Saudi Arabia. Here there is a problem with an earlier release since the motorcycle seemed to be destined, as production in Terni. And Maic Technologies, according to another communiqué, we understood to be engaged in biometric sensing activities and not motorcycle production. From one release to another, MAIC and KMHG switched roles.
Fantastic Trophy Competition, the statement continues, will be a real hub for the selection of young Saudi riders, whose talent can emerge with the valuable support of VR46.
I wonder if in Saudi Arabia they know about this all-Italian opportunity to become like Valentino, Morbidelli and Bezzecchi as they race followed by drones, satellites and hot air balloons and audiences from home, on a four-wheel-drive hybrid motorcycle that will be built in the next few years in Saudi Arabia itself, or in Terni.
Following in the communiqué is praise for the Saudi Prince and Moroccan-Korean companies, chaired by Architect Bernardini, a recognized representative of Korean technology and Italian creativity. Of the latter, the communiqués are not lacking because of the efforts in urban planning, construction, technology and academia, there is no project actually implemented yet. And we hope that the Saudi prince will not be upset about this.
On the remaining communiqués regarding the specific agreements between Tanal Global and VR46, those with KSA New Cities AND ARAMCO as the target, little to add except that they all present the same stereotypes: projects yet to be realized, statements yet to be verified, one-sided communiqués, and partner companies appearing, always the same, in all the projects communicated by Tanal. And the one sponsor, ARAMCO, who no longer knows how to deny it.
For the rest, he was right, Architect Bernardini when he told me on his phone call that by well analyzing the network of news, releases and initiatives, the numbers would indeed add up.
The common thread is him: Marco Bernardini, administrator of Terni-based Systech, a company that makes electrical panels (so the web reports, since the company has no website), with a passion for Saudi Arabia, formerly resigned construction manager of Terni's Cardeto Park, and a proponent as a bystander of electric motorcycle projects that wanted to participate in the MotoE championship in 2017 (they didn't make it) and in later years of electric racing cars that never came to life, multifunctional energy towers that never went up, and Saudi smart cities that have yet to be built, with projects that have been thrown into the future for a few years but then, when the future arrives, are never seen. Another thing that leaves us doubtful is the fact that there is no record at the Architectural Association of Architect Marco Bernardini. There is a namesake of his but he has a practice in Liguria. We hope he is at least a surveyor. We can of course be wrong and are ready for any correction.
WHO IS LIKELY TO BE HARMED?
In all this web of events, communiqués and companies, the one who risks losing out is VR46 , which seems to be more used than sponsored. We called VR46 in the person of Uccio Salucci who, very courteously, confirmed the partnership with Tanal and to have already active sponsorships in CIV and CEV, with related financial support and fairing sponsors but, following our further requests, he directed us to Alberto Tebaldi who, however, busy, promised to call us back. We have been waiting for several days.
In addition to VR46, in an obviously marginal position, there is also. Ducati, which will have to provide two official bikes as well as technicians and engineers. Obviously the company is not in danger but there could still be some image damage or some element to reconsider.
As for Dorna , which is in danger of not being able to count on the flow of money that such a lavish sponsorship should bring, it will obviously make its contribution to the team, but it is clear that it would be faced with an uphill project that would have to seek another sponsorship, at this point, last minute.
In short, we are sure that the VR46 MotoGP team will happen and it will also be a success. Princes, fixers, oilmen-we believe it's all true. The only thing that does not add up for us is referring to the credentials so far exhibited by its sponsor. Which we will be glad to disprove.
IMPORTANT UPDATE
This article has been ready for a few days, about a week. We asked for clarification and gave it time to respond but received very aggressive approaches as well as unhinged reactions.
On Saturday, July 31, it came out on the important website GPONE an article regarding the launch of a press conference to be held in Riad although, uncharacteristically for such a release, the date is missing. We are sure GPONE will have done its due diligence. To us, however, it still doesn't add up.
There is a video in the release that is again a render and depicts the building made in the shape of an F1 car. What does this have to do with Tanal?
Also missing is ARAMCO in addition to SIg. Bernardini and the sponsors have become POTENTIAL.
What is that supposed to mean? Someone help us out here.
Do you think such things exist only in movies like Oceans (and all the rest of the saga) or in mystery or spy books?
Not a chance.
It's a few years old, but it was released only in these days in the form of an EXCLUSIVE interview wanted by Genesio Bevilacqua, the story of the attempted scam on the Althea Racing team, narrowly missed a few years ago when the Civita Castellana-based team had just won the World Superbike Championship.
Genesio Bevilacqua, prodigal with anecdotes, details, and data, recounted how faccendieri, princes, oilmen, and ... secret agents, were "pretty close" to swindling Bevilacqua's team and other unfortunates, something that later happened to the Internazionale football club as well.
The video is a bit long, but there are so many details that perhaps it is really worth evaluating to see what strange things can happen!
Kenan Sofuoglu è una persona chiara e limpida.
Lo era da pilota, e ha dimostrato di esserlo da manager.
Bastone e carota, con poche carote. Così lo ha definito il suo amico ed ex team manager Manuel Puccetti.
Sofuoglu sa cosa vuole per lui e per i suoi. In questo modo ha piazzato una mezza dozzina di demoni nei campionati più importanti.
This introduction to point out a couple of details.
1) Sofuoglu 's riders talk little and he talks little himself.
2) Sofuoglu has clear ideas and does not waste time in tiresome negotiations.
E’ vero che i turchi sono un popolo di commercianti e negoziatori instancabili, ma Sofuoglu non è un commerciante. Al suo paese è un eroe nazionale e un’autorità politica. Negozia molto poco e ha il vantaggio di aver vissuto sportivamente gli alti e bassi delle decisioni premature.
For Razgatlioglu, following Kawasaki's snub of the 8h of Suzuka, there was packing in the direction of Yamaha.
It was already clear to the Turk and his manager that the Provec team would never allow the youngster to express himself so as not to damage the balance with Rea. Decision made in 2 days, zero journalistic wittering and deal done.
Off to the fly to the house of tuning forks where things don't work out, however.
The bike doesn't work, the team doesn't work, and the plans don't coincide with what the good Kenan has in mind: to win the Superbike world championship and go to MotoGP through the front door.
Paul Denning's Superbike team is not up to the task, the bike is not good enough to win, and even in MotoGP Petronas is not the right place for Toprak Razgatlioglu.It is really Yamaha that is undecided. It is not good.
Sofuoglu ha detto che Razgatlioglu farà altri due anni in Superbike ma si è guardato bene dal dire con chi perché l’idea era quella di parlare con Ducati.
A Bologna sono delusi da Redding e hanno deciso piuttosto di investire su Rinaldi. Forse avrebbero preferito Gerloff, altrettanto talentuoso e giovane, ma Razgatlioglu non ha grilli per la testa, non si lamenta mai pubblicamente ed uno che si comporta sempre bene… altrimenti guai a lui.
Se i patti sono chiari il turco è uno di quelli che apre il gas senza fiatare e senza fare cinema quando non serve.
Basta non far arrabbiare il suo manager. E invece niente. Sofuoglu si è mosso chiaro, pulito e veloce.
Mentre Ducati tentennava, è arrivata la contro offerta di Yamaha. Il contratto è con Yamaha Europe e prevede anche un piano di sviluppo sensato in MotoGP.
Per una volta Yamaha impara dagli errori di Kawasaki e tiene a sé uno dei suoi talenti migliori. Ducati, invece, perde l’ennesimo treno.
We all saw that the happy days between VR46 and Petronas, were not there. It started out that they were all friends, and in the end, even the relationship with Morbidelli, who is rightly tied more to his "boss" than to a team that, after a second place in the world championship, certainly did not gratify him (the fault of his boss, anyway), is at risk.
But the story is so tense that in addition to the happy days having come and gone, thehappy ending is also at risk, especially also because of the recent sentences of Petronas boss Razlan Razali .
1) "It was interesting and constructive to deal with Valentino but it was an exception because we usually hire young talent."
2) " Rossi 's contract expires in November when the season ends."
3) "We have not said either that we are renewing or releasing him."
These three phrases mean, said in the oriental way.
1) Rossi was imposed or at least chosen on the basis of criteria that were not purely sporting.
This explanation is also supported by other recent statements that spoke, on the part of Petronas, of "commercial satisfaction anyway."
A message that should be read, if one knows the Orientals with "nothing worked but we didn't lose out" (let's say it is a message more in the direction of shareholders).
2) There are contractual obligations that bind the pilot to close the season.
Let it not occur to him to close early.
3) Petronas has not yet said it will release him because it is usually Petronas that does not renew, not the other way around.
When Petronas decides to communicate that it is not renewing with Rossi, it will be known by Petronas.
Kind of like when the contract was made. Petronas decided how and when to sanction it officially.
These things here, those who know Orientals (even more complex to interact with Muslim Orientals), know that they are fundamental.
First of all, it did not end well, but you have already read this on this site inApril and in May.
Second, contrary to what the friendly press ( Rossi's, you mean) would have you believe, it is not the latter who decides.
In fact, no one could force a rider to race who does not want to do so, but if this rider is in a hurry or wants to impose certain clauses, it may not end up as he says.
In short, you have to close in friendship, or else, after the happy days thehappy ending is also likely to fade.
And we more or less all know how important in some things the happy ending, is.
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