Fixers, princes, oilmen and "suspicious" companies: is someone exploiting VR46 and Valentino without their knowledge? New releases do not convince! August 1
25 milioni per tre anni coprirebbero MotoGP e Moto2.
In quel caso i Sauditi ci sarebbero per davvero (senza principe e tutto l’apparato che abbiamo imparato a conoscere) e anche il logo Aramco ormai caro, che farebbe il giro largo tramite un’agenzia di Sport Marketing a quota 15% di commissione, riprenderebbe la sua posizione originaria. Per davvero.
Questi, in breve, i rumors che spuntano in merito alla sponsorizzazione in arrivo per il team VR46 che salverebbe comunque l’onore presentando “quasi” gli stessi sauditi con un player che aveva prima negato ed era quindi scomparso e adesso torna in auge coinvolto da operatori di un livello decisamente diverso con un progetto di tutt’altro tipo.
Niente città, parchi a tema, automotive che non esiste e nemmeno mongolfiere, droni e film di fantascienza, assurdità industriali o acquisizioni folli.
Aramco avrebbe fatto così il giro lungo per il tempo necessario a smarcarsi e avrebbe seguito il percorso previsto il 6 maggio, percorso che aveva ipotizzato un arrivo reale del petroliere ma ad opera di vettori credibili.
Insomma una sponsorizzazione vera e realistica che però E’ STATA SMENTITA DAi PORTAVOCE DI ARAMCO DIRETTAMENTE A QUESTO SITO DURANTE IL DOVUTO FACT CHECKING.
Riportare i rumors e la smentita serve comunque a delimitare la situazione. Chi legge questa cosa altrove, ne può identificare i punti salienti.
Se tutto dovesse essere vero, comunque, alla fine VR46 potrebbe davvero farcela a mettere un brand petrolifero Saudita sulle carene delle sue moto e sarebbe addirittura lo stesso di inizio storia.
E allo stesso tempo potrebbe riuscire a liberarsi di un bel po’ di elementi a zero credibilità. Per ora, però, si tratta solo di rumors, per di più smentiti.
As we approach the third deadline for payment by Tanal, we are talking about August 31, the day of confrontation of the four ministries, and His Royal Highness Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Saud bin AbdulAziz Al Saud through his emissary Architect Marco Bernardini, the game is getting tough and dangerous for the VR46 team, which, however, it is now certain, has its Plan B, which is nothing but Plan A prior to the arrival of the Prince, namely the involvement of current sponsors with an increase in Budget.
So the team will be done 100 percent, no doubt about it.
Quanti soldi servono e quanti ne mancano?
5 milioni sono a carico di Irta. Per fare le cose fatte bene, ne mancano altri 5-6.
Questo parlando solo del 2022.
Anche mancassero uno o due milioni, non ci sarebbero grossi problemi
Per garantire i 5 anni, invece, ci vorrebbe un pacchetto di 6-7 milioni all’anno erogati da aziende serie che credono in un progetto pluriennale.
Al momento però, si lavora per risolvere le emergenze, anche se il rinnovo di SKY, di cui è appena giunta la notizia, calma molto le acque.
Nel paddock, da Ezpeleta in giù, da diverse settimane, tutti sono ormai convinti che il progetto sia sfumato e VR46 si stia giustamente muovendo per comunicare, per Misano o nei giorni immediatamente successivi, il suo distaccamento da Tanal e tutto quello che li riguarda, dichiarando che i tempi sauditi non sono compatibili con le esigenze sportive della squadra. Difficile possa ammettere che il suo gruppo di lavoro ha preso un abbaglio.
Serve un’uscita elegante.
IsWithU really that impoertant?
WithU is the main topic of discussion and the doubt should be revealed in Misano yet as of today it is not so important.
Many give the energy company all over the place but with a profit of 1.42 million euros, it is unlikely to have the ability to sponsor everyone with a massive budget
According to some it should support the former Petronas team and Dovizioso while according to others it should follow VR46.
According to our information, WithU came to Petronas thanks to VR46 because of Morbidelli.
WithU was interested in an ITALIAN rider belonging to the Academy.
WithU and Morbidelli would then arrive together on thePetronas Yamaha .
Per questo motivo, nel momento in cui VR46 avesse un problema di Budget, a meno di un amore spassionato per Morbidelli, che comunque è destinato al team factory, difficilmente WithU sceglierebbe SOLTANTO la Yamaha di Dovizioso che è un pilota a fine carriera ed estraneo a VR46.
Difficile quindi pensare che WithU SCELGA di fare SOLTANTO il title sponsor dell’ex team Petronas rinunciando ai vantaggi che VR46 gli porterebbe. Marini, Bezzecchi o chiunque VR46 vorrà mettere sulle Ducati sono un’offerta più appetibile di Dovizioso e Binder.
Anche fossero “solo” 2 milioni, difficilmente VR46 in un momento così delicato si lascerebbe sfuggire anche una briciola di uno sponsor che ha essa stessa fatto entrare nel paddock. Però WithU non ha la forza di essere title sponsor. Per questo c’è SKY che è rimasta in silenzio sul tema del Principe e adesso rinnova per 4 anni salvando la faccia di VR46 e ottenendo, dopo aver perso tutto il calcio, almeno i motori. L’opzione migliore è che WithU accetti di essere presente sia sulla Yamaha Petronas che su VR46 ma senza essere title sponsor. NON CI SAREBBE NEMMENO BISOGNO DI CAMBIARE LE CARENE!
What will SRT do?
The SRT team is an endangered team.
Currently no one on the team has a contract beyond the expiration date. In 2022 there will be a company run by Stigefelt and Razali. Of Razali not much is known while Stigefelt, before Petronas has a past in Superbike with the Honda set up by Oral, with whom he experienced dark moments.
In these years of lavish Petronas sponsorship, the accounts may be back on track, but without the Malaysians, in a twisted scenario, the team would not stand. SRT's fate is all to be decided.
Yamaha 's help tastes like gratitude
Yamaha factory was forced to take charge of a delicate situation by putting Dovizioso under contract.
Over the years the SRT team, thanks to Petronas, was a cash cow, but now it is time to rescue it .
The factory team, in fact, owes a big debt to SRT since Stigefelt and Razali 's team raised Quartararo and Morbidelli, who were so good that they deserved the factory bike with a real chance (for Quartararo) to win the world championship as well.
This evolution is not due to Jarvis's policy but to Petronas 's choices that may now be rewarded.
The Japanese, albeit late as usual, would understand that SRT must be saved and that it is time to repair the broken toy that has brought so many benefits.
Con l’addio di Vinales e il risparmio che ne è conseguito, circa 8 milioni, c’è tutto il margine per operare in tranquillità.
Ipotizzando un compenso di 2 milioni per Dovizioso e di qualche spicciolo per Binder (un rookie dalla Moto2 percepisce circa 200-300mila euro e quindi uno della moto3 anche meno), rimarrebbero circa 6 milioni.
Con questi, anche pagando bene Morbidelli (ipotizziamo 2 milioni anche per lui) rimane un discreto budget che consentirebbe uno sconto a SRT sul leasing delle moto almeno per un anno (per tenerlo in piedi). Sono tutti soldi già a budget e quindi già pronti.
This is while waiting for the immediate problem to be solved that would allow the Stigefelt bikes to be quietly fielded.
Yamaha, which found itself in an unexpected situation, would still have a chance to get out of the problem.
The next few years, of course, are another matter.
La situazione di Dorna
Qualche difficoltà in più, invece, per Dorna.
Se a VR46 mancassero uno o due milioni, non ci sarebbero comunque problemi. VR46 va aiutata per evitare di perdere un team importante e per salvare l’immagine.
Anche qui la toppa sarebbe però per il solo 2022.
Dorna ha perso circa 100milioni nel 2020 e si accinge a perderne molti anche nel 2021. Gli anni d’oro sono passati e quello che Dorna non vuole, è essere costretta a risolvere i problemi di VR46 per i prossimi 5 anni. A questo serve SKY. Dorna fa uno sconto all’emittente che salva così VR46 ed evita a Dorna di impegnarsi in modo massiccio.
The VR46 situation
How exactly he will want to handle the VR46 situation is unclear.
In addition to publicly saying goodbye to Prince, talking about a tight timetable or admitting to a blunder, there is the issue of riders.
Marini is taken for granted but has not yet been officially announced. Bezzecchi is speculated but he has not been confirmed either, with the addition that it is obvious that there is no SRT offer for him anymore. Stigefelt and Razali 's good bike will go to Dovizioso and therefore Bezzecchi must be lined up with VR46 at all costs.
VR46 ha sicuramente in corso valutazioni che vanno oltre Tanal
Questo emerge anche dal fatto che gli sponsor ex moto2 interpellati stanno già valutando le nuove richieste e sono in agitazione.
La stessa SKY, che ha appena confermato il rinnovo, grazie ad una Dorna molto elastica, si è messa in moto per salvare VR46.
Resta solo da capire come e quando Valentino (solo lui può fare una comunicazione di questo tipo) uscirà dall’impasse nel modo più elegante possibile.
E’ importante capire se Rossi si rivarrà sul misterioso contratto firmato con Tanal, andando allo scontro con gli arabi o se farà finta di niente, avendo capito che non c’è alcun risarcimento da prendere.
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.
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