Fixers, princes, oilmen and "suspicious" companies: is someone exploiting VR46 and Valentino without their knowledge? New releases do not convince! August 1
Misano was not the expected Italian happy ending for the VR46 package, either directly or indirectly.
Valentino Rossi started last and finished in the top ten. All in all, an acceptable result given the season, but certainly not one of those expected until recently when it came to a decent home farewell to his longtime career.
Bad also Bagnaia, considered as the flag of the Academy, on the ground to resist a Marquez who won the race in the home of others on a circuit that by conformation should have said no.
It did not go well even for the rest of the Valentno boys who did not shine in either Moto2 or Moto3, where a former VR46, Dennis Foggia, won his race.
The results of Morbidelli, 14th and Marini 9th and humiliated by his teammate Bastianini, which feeds controversy over the bikes that will be assigned to the two in 2022 (Marini the factory and Bastianini an old bike), close the weekend, but it is not over yet.
The thing that should worry, even if hardly anyone talks about it, is the failure to announce the sponsor of Valentino's MotoGP team, on which a dangerous silence has fallen for months.
It is not clear why it was a non-organizational or financial figure who broke it, but a technician, a figure who until now had never expressed himself on issues of this type, or perhaps this is a signal.
There are some certainties in the team: The riders will be Marini and Bezzecchi, while the historical employees of VR (Munoz, Flamigni, Gavira) are confirmed in their technical roles.
Who seems to be out of authority is Uccio Salucci who, apparently, will remain in the role most suited to him of Valentino’s Bottle & Towel Manager even in car racing. An accompanying role that, plausibly, prevents him from pursuing commercial agreements.
The most malicious will have thought that all this is due to the mess put up in recent months but Nieto’s tranquility seems to deny the rumors about the team that Valentino does not care about (he admitted this by declaring that the sponsorship problems do not concern him).
According to Pablo Nieto, in fact, the choice not to give news would be linked to the desire to better manage the last Italian VR race and otherwise everything would be fine with Aramco, despite the slowness of the evolution of the matter.
“As you know, we have made this deal with Aramco in the past. Things are going very, very slowly, but they are on the right track.”
And still:
"This is the most important thing and, at the moment, the thing I can tell you is that we are working on it. There are some delays, but we are on the right track and we are still working on it."
So after months the oil sponsor reappears, despite the official and repeated denials of its press office (Brunswick has repeatedly written to this website as well) and of its CEO who has spoken in first person publicly.
It is bad to use the term "liar" but someone is not telling the truth, because if things were to be as the Spaniard says, it would mean that Aramco has been denying something for which he was negotiating for months. Aramco has not released "no comment" but has categorically denied any past and present negotiations with VR46.
If, on the other hand, things were as described by Aramco, it would be someone from VR46 who made the mental films.
The surprising thing, however, is not so much pulling in a sponsor who has always denied it, but deliberately choosing to ignore the fact that for 6 months and for about 4,000 published articles, we have put up with the ridiculous intentions of Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, his advisor Architect (later revealed to be non-architect) Marco Bernardini, and the elusive Tanal Entertainment Sport and Media.
The triptych became the protagonist of Press releases for events that never happened (Fantastic Trophy), never created situations (construction of motorcycles), non-existent company headquarters (photoshopped buildings), never registered trademarks, and unreal press conference, all without concludeing anything.
We can report here the links of everything that has been declared but things do not change because nothing has ever really happened as it is a hoax carried on for months.
From the doors of the Prince’s residence that had to be opened to the press, to the races in the desert, to electric motorcycles, up to the repeated deadlines that were not met, everything was simply an invention.
The 90 million for the 5 years did not arrive, but not even the 18 million for the next season.
In April-May, the clarifications on the VR46 MotoGP team seemed imminent.
Aramco had even disappeared from journalistic reasoning, replaced by Tanal who still appears on Marini’s Moto2 and MotoGP along with other NON-EXISTING companies such as brands, offices and activities, while now it seems normal that the he news arrives at the end of the season. Yet another deadline.
And none of the insiders dare to ask anything about something that has been talked about for months, that is, and we repeat it, Tanal, the Prince, a councilor who was everywhere, and dozens of projects that turned out to be bogus.
A stage made up of liars, sleepy amateurs, incompetent, hustlers and cowards who do not have the courage to ask a question despite their professional ethics should force it on them.
Then we will do it: Tanal, the Prince and the Councilor, what happened to them?
And who lies between Aramco who says they are not involved and VR46 who instead says that everything is okay with the oil giant?
Fans who watch this show, who pay to watch MotoGP on TV, who click on sites or buy magazines, can draw their own conclusions about the people they give their money to.
And for those who want to see the show again, the episodes are all here, starting with the August episode:
August 6th 2021
Wheeler-dealers, princes, oilmen and suspicious companies: is someone exploiting VR46 and Valentino without their knowledge?
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August 14th 2021
Team VR46: Ducati rumors worried about a possible scam. A rescue press conference on Wednesday?
Misano non è stato il lieto fine Italiano atteso, per il pacchetto VR46, né direttamente, né indirettamente.
Valentino Rossi è partito ultimo e ha terminato in top ten. Un risultato tutto sommato accettabile vista la stagione, ma di certo non di quelli attesi fino a poco tempo fa quando si parlava di addio casalingo dignitoso alla carriera.
Male anche Bagnaia, alfiere quotato dell’Accademy, in terra per resistere ad un Marquez che si è aggiudicato la gara in casa d’altri su un circuito che per conformazione avrebbe dovuto dirgl di no.
Non è andata bene nemmeno un po’ anche per il resto dei Valentno boys che non hanno brillato né in Moto2, né in Moto3, dove ha vinto un ex VR46, Dennis Foggia.
I risultati di Morbidelli, 14° e Marini 9° e umiliato dal suo compagno di squadra Bastianini, cosa che alimenta polemiche sulle moto che ai due verranno assegnate nel 2022 (a Marini la factory e a Bastianini una moto vecchia), chiudono il week end, ma non finisce qui.
La cosa che dovrebbe preoccupare, anche se non ne parla quasi nessuno, è il mancato annuncio sullo sponsor del team MotoGP di Valentino, su cui per mesi è piombato un silenzio pericoloso.
It is unclear why it was not an organizational or financial figure who broke it, but a technician, a figure who until now had never spoken out on such matters, or perhaps this is a sign.
Nel team alcune certezze ci sono: I piloti saranno Marini e Bezzecchi, mentre i collaboratori storici di VR (Munoz, Flamigni, Gavira) sono confermati ai loro ruoli tecnici.
Chi sembra essere esautorato è Uccio Salucci che, a quanto pare, rimarrà nel ruolo a lui più consono di Bottle&Towel Manager (responsabile borraccia e asciugamano) di Valentino anche nelle corse in auto. Un ruolo di accompagnatore che, plausibilmente, gli impedisca di portare avanti accordi commerciali.
I più maligni avranno pensato che tutto ciò sia dovuto al pasticcio messo su negli ultimi mesi ma la tranquillità di Nieto sembra smentire le voci sul team del quale a Valentino non interessa nulla (lo ha ammesso dichiarando che i problemi di sponsorizzazione non lo riguardano).
According to Pablo Nieto, in fact, the decision not to give news would be linked to the desire to manage the last Italian VR race as best as possible, and otherwise everything would be fine with Aramco, despite the slow progress of the matter.
“Come sapete, abbiamo fatto questo accordo con Aramco in passato. Le cose stanno andando molto, molto lentamente, ma sono sulla strada giusta”
Also:
"This is the most important thing, and right now, the thing I can tell you is that we are working on it. There are some delays, but we are on the right track and we are still working on it."
So after months, the oil sponsor resurfaces, despite official and repeated denials by its press office (Brunswick has repeatedly denied it to this website as well) and its CEO who has spoken out publicly himself.
It is bad to use the term "liar" however, someone is not telling the truth, because if things were to be as the Spaniard says, it would mean that Aramco has been denying for months something for which it was in negotiations. Aramco did not issue "no comment" but instead categorically denied any past and present negotiations with VR46.
If, on the other hand, things were as described by Aramco, it would be someone from VR46 who was making mental movies.
What is astonishing, however, is not so much the bringing up of a sponsor who has always denied it, but deliberately choosing to ignore the fact that for 6 months and some 4,000 published articles, we have been grinning at the ridiculous intentions of Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, his advisor Architect (later revealed not to be an architect) Marco Bernardini, and the phantom Tanal Entertainment Sport and Media.
The triptych has been responsible for press releases for events that never happenedFantastic Trophy), situations never created (motorcycle construction),nonexistent corporate headquarters (photoshopped buildings), holding company trademarks never registered, and press conferences bordering on the surreal, without concluding anything.
We can report here the links of everything that was stated but things do not change because nothing ever really happened as it is a bluster carried on for months.
From the doors of the Prince's residence that were to be opened to the press, to races in the desert, to electric motorcycles, to repeated missed deadlines, everything was simply an invention.
Non sono arrivati i 90 milioni per i 5 anni, ma nemmeno i 18 per la prossima stagione.
Ad Aprile-maggio, le delucidazioni sul team MotoGP VR46 sembravano imminenti.
Aramco era addirittura scomparsa dai ragionamenti giornalistici, sostituita da Tanal che compare ancora sulle moto2 e sulla MotoGP di Marini insieme ad altre aziende INESISTENTI come brand, sedi e attività, mentre adesso sembra normale che le news arrivino a fine campionato. Un’ennesima scadenza.
And none of the insiders dares to ask anything about something that has been talked about for months, namely, and we repeat, Tanal, the Prince, an adviser who was everywhere, and dozens of projects that later turned out to be bogus.
A stage made up of liars, sleepy amateurs, incompetents, marketeers and wimps who do not have the courage to ask a question despite the fact that their professional ethics should dictate it.
I'll make it: what happened to Tanal, the Prince and the Counselor? And who is lying between Aramco who says they are not involved and VR46 who instead says everything is fine with the oil giant?
Gli appassionati che guardano questo spettacolo, che pagano per guardare la MotoGP in TV, che cliccano sui siti o comprano le riviste, traggano le loro conclusioni sulla gente a cui danno i soldi.
And for those who want to review the show, the episodes are all here, starting with the May episode:
6 maggio 2021 MotoGP: perché ARAMCO non sa niente della partnership con VR46?
1 agosto 2021 Faccendieri, principi, petrolieri e aziende “sospette”: qualcuno sfrutta a sua insaputa VR46 e Valentino? I nuovi comunicati non convincono!
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.
Mentre i giorni passano e nella storia fra Tanal e VR46 si raccolgono scadenze come si raccolgono punti del supermercato perché i 18 milioni promessi non arrivano, tutti sono silenziosi e immobili come lucertole.
He is silent who should give the money, since he no longer knows what to make up. Prince, spokesman, press office and friend presenter former team manager: disappeared.
He is silent about who should receive them, because he has to decide whether to admit that he has been taken for a ride or to declare that they are not there in time and it is therefore necessary to take another route.
He is silent who spoke for months with extreme confidence about the Sheikh until, concretely, it turned out that the matter just doesn't hold up anymore. 100 posts a day, they become 0.
Only a few diehards are left to speak, a few Taliban who almost seem to be paid for something now ridiculous to be believed possible.
Abbiamo una figura non bella di un team-azienda come la VR46, che non si capisce quali controlli abbia fatto e a chi si sia affidata.
We have a total debacle of the trade press, which wrote 3500 articles and not even after the Prince's surreal lecture had the courage to raise its hand (if it had been me I would have gone crazy during and that is the reason why maybe they did not invite me), as well as of the extra-industry press, which only timidly said something.
Abbiamo una figura un po’ indecifrabile della stampa internazionale, che naturalmente vede la VR46 come un’entità infallibile e che quindi fa fatica a credere possa essere vittima di un smile farsa. Per non parlare del fatto che non è mai stata coinvolta direttamente. Se così fosse se ne sarebbe già accorta.
Abbiamo una figuraccia di Dorna che fa entrare senza alcuna verifica un po’ chiunque a parlare con Carmelo Ezpeleta e che non prende pubblicamente ed ufficialmente le distanze da quella che è chiaramente una farsa, nemmeno quando è evidente.
But the ones who are the most endearing are the fanboys, office-bearers, fixers, retired or working journalists, who have been advocating something that has not existed for months. In fact, that it never existed in the first place, to the cry of "do you think it is possible for a big company to get ripped off like this?" or "but who would benefit from this and how do they gain from it?"
It is time to explain it by revealing more shocking background.
VR46 as third choice. aprilia only needed 15 minutes
E’ un mistero che può essere spiegato solo con il fatto che Uccio Salucci e Alberto Tebaldi manchino del background per gestire certe cose. Senza offesa. La VR46 apparel e l’Accademy sono eccellenze nel loro campo ma per un certo tipo di business forse ci vogliono altri assetti.
However, it is shocking that the keys to the coffers of the greatest Italian sportsman of the past 20 years are in certain hands with certain margins for action.
Tornando alla storia e al il trio Ternano-Saudita, Principe-Consigliere-Team Manager, voci non confermate né smentite ufficialmente da Aprilia ma che trovano riscontro da alcune fonti interne, parlano di un approccio precedente a quello di VR46.
Il consigliere-architetto, presentato ancora una volta da Giampiero Sacchi, che con Aprilia ha ancora contatti per via del suo passato, sarebbe stato liquidato in 15′. Meno ancora di quanto ci avrebbe messo ad essere congedato da Ducati quando cercò di proporgli un parco a tema che poi fu fatto a Mirabilandia. “C’ho questo amico che è amico di un principe”, in Aprilia non ha funzionato come con VR46 e con Dorna.
Aprilia (Piaggio), è un gigante a volte all’antica, ma che fa controlli rigorosi. Il passato racing ha insegnato molto e da quel momento Mister Colaninno i controlli li affida a società esterne a cui rimette certe decisioni in base a certi parametri. Piaggio è un’azienda di appalti governativi e non governativi, nazionali e internazionali. Queste cose le fa per mestiere, i controlli sono certificati e la giostra si ferma al primo allarme sicurezza. Non ci sarebbe da stupirsi se proprio essere accompagnato da Giampiero Sacchi avrebbe costituito titolo tutt’altro che preferenziale.
Per quanto riguarda il secondo team contattato prima di VR46 (fa ridere ma è così), una squadra privata importante, deve essere andato a senso o a conoscenza diretta, ma il risultato è stato identico.
Meno male che c’è VR46, che risponde alla prima domanda (come è stato possibile?).
Sono bravissimi ma in altre cose. Da oggi in poi siamo sicuri che saranno più bravi anche in queste.
It is time for the second question: who benefits from this and how does it benefit us?
And here there is fear to be had.
With the publication on this site of the pieces on Aramco, the Prince and the Councilor, some reports began to come in about the same, really engaged in numerous megalithic activities in different areas.
Oltre al progetto motociclistico, infatti, “l’architetto”, a nome del principe e della Holding Italo- Marocchina – Coreana (di cui è CEO italiano senza essere mai stato in Corea in vita sua) e delle sue emanazioni, sarebbe impegnato in molti altri mega progetti, alcuni dei quali illustrati e incrociati anche nei comunicati riguardanti la partnership con VR46.
And here is the simultaneous realization of:
(a) 4 theatrical films (the Edward Loth trilogy plus the film The Swordsman), with actors such as Steven Seagal, Daniel RedCliffe, Orlando Bloom, Tom Hardy, Sam Worthington, Luke Evans, as well as a dozen other Chinese and Korean actors and actresses all famous. Plus, of course, Oscar-winning Korean director Bong Joon Ho, director of Parasite and The Snowpiercer.
Bong Joon-hoEdward Loth
Swordman Cast
b) Diversi progetti di moda fra Italia, Korea e Arabia Saudita sotto il brand di Moda Live
(c) International music projects through the Korean super band BTS, with mega concerts and fashion-related sponsorships.
(d) A couple of towns in the desert already known to motorcycling enthusiasts as they are named in communiqués
(e) building projects of various sizes (hotels, resorts, businesses, factories)
(f) some sports projects to be pursued in their spare time such as formula1 teams, MotoGP and Serie A soccer teams.
It is all true, and over the past few days there has been a kind of race to recount the most bizarre episodes, all of which, however, have been confirmed by pictures, recorded phone calls, and chats by those who have been involved with these projects and episodes and have struggled to get paid even fees of a few hundred euros.
I drive around Italy in the Doblò, I get a little bored!
"There are probably personal problems." That's what everyone who calls or writes sooner or later says about their experiences with the architect who travels around central Italy (he rarely goes further nord, never south) in his van. He scrounges for lunches, dinners, overnight stays, clothing, products, like a door-to-door salesman, but in reverse, black jacket and t-shirt merchandising his increasingly exaggerated, increasingly complex and increasingly pretentious projects. All stopped in their embryonic state.
With participants in the various "work" groups, whom they call by naming their companies, workshops, laboratories, he publicly shares details, documents, chat screens, phone, audio and video conversations to convince the unfortunate ones of the goodness of the projects underway as well as the veracity of the contacts and the level of knowledge involved. Different projects but same content intertwining and integrating. All so big to be credible, all so complex to require time and trust. Money is meant to come at the end of projects but no project ever ends.
So it is that different people who do not know each other end up telling this site, versions that coincide, starring even important people (mayors, governors, big businessmen), often real and almost always unaware that they are part guarantor of something that does not really exist. Different people send the same documents, naming the same names and telling about the same projects.
The attempted purchase of A.C. Milan on behalf of Prince, complete with a phone call entertained with President Scaroni, is one of them. Of course, it is then reported that the contact is ongoing but not how it turns out, time after time. I wonder if Milan knows that they are being discussed in various Whatsapp chats in which there are architects, film workers, goldsmiths, tailors, photographers etc.
AC Milan
The purchase of the former Ariston (40 million euros seems too much for the Koreans represented by Bernardini but 30 might also do), blurred according to him due to a whim of Mr. Lee of Samsung who allegedly changed his mind about importing Marche technology to his country. Strange because Umbria and Marche have always exported electronics to Korea...Meanwhile, the struggling company goes bankrupt.
Ariston
Abbastanza curiosa anche la telefonata in francese ad Airbus per l’acquisto di un jet. Le difficoltà di spostamento a causa del Covid-19, infatti, avrebbero spinto il Principe ad acquistare un aereo per far muovere più liberamente il suo consigliere. Un deciso miglioramento rispetto al Fiat Doblò!
Sempre target top di gamma e acquisto dato per scontato con conseguente vanto fra i “partner”. Dov’è l’aereo?
Nello stesso posto in cui sono i 18 milioni destinati a VR46, noi pensiamo.
Airbus
Even the Korean boy band BTS, dressed thanks to the Italian-Korean-Saudi Moda Live project (always in the offing), also overseen by Bernardini in the film sphere ( film costumes come from Moda Live), would benefit from the architect's designs. The prize for the partners of the various companies? Acting in the film for which all the workers have already been hired. Including a lion tamer and a falconer.
BTS Band
Nor would any savings be made for the concert. The architect's work, in fact, a 200m-long and 50m-wide stage to be transported by three super trucks to travel between Italy, Korea, and Saudi Arabia, with the approval of Samsung (again him, Mr. Lee, and his designer sister) and Hyundai for whom Moda Live would be making the interiors of the new cars.
Hyundai is a bit of a fixation, since it also appears on the MotoGP Aramco mockup. I wonder if she is informed.
Internship
KIHG_Hyundai_BTSVR46 Aramco
The documents are there. How to doubt? Especially when every project is now defined as being one step away from completion, except for a few that already exist because they have been built, albeit by other architects, such as some real parks, some real buildings made by real architects and brazenly used even in the press releases sent out.
f1render
Telefonate e trattative per realizzare il palco, per acquistare i super truck e per acquistare dei manichini robotici che avrebbero consentito di prendere le misure degli abiti di Moda Live in automatico. Costo di ciascun manichino: circa 7000 euro, ordinandone almeno 200.
Chiamate, accordi, visite ai produttori, tutto come fatto. Business plan e documenti progettuali ottenuti a costo zero con la promessa di essere parte del business o facendo lavorare degli studenti o dei giovani professionisti. Quale azienda si tira dietro per un preventivo? Persino Pininfarina ha fornito dei bozzetti senza sapere che sarebbero diventati le macchine volanti di un film. Noi li abbiamo visti, è giusto che li vediate anche voi.
Pininfarina
Do you want to get paid? Then I'll buy you!
For those who do not want to work for free or start protesting, the cliché is always the same. At the first demands for money from some participant, the counter offer to buy the company, the building, the brand, so as to get more time needed for negotiation, thus continuing to let the "partner" work without spending a penny. Bids start for all kinds of companies, workshops, even multinationals. It pays either Mr. Lee or the Prince anyway.
Ogni incontro è positivo. Come fatto!
E qualora qualche incontro non andasse bene, come con Braccialini o Aprilia, dove l’architetto viene buttato fuori, c’è comunque una presentazione in più da far girare in chat con foto e numeri. “L’incontro è andato molto bene, attendiamo risposta”. E tutti “Bravo, complimenti”, e via così, come ad una riunione di multilevel marketing, ma in chat. Per chi ancora ci casca, resta solo da lavorare. Naturalmente gratis.
The first defections
Thus it is that a tailor's shop in Gubbio, for which the prince's advisor is initially seen as an opportunity but then becomes an amusing pastime of its owner, goes from deluded partner to patient friend who for the sake of quiet life makes a few scrounged dinners, a desk in the office (Bernardini has no office), a few dresses never picked up, and a few princely tunics later seen at a press conference known to all. Value of the tunic: 500 euros plus shipping...to Gubbio, the new Riyad. Here is the cost of a prince's clothes. There are teen agers in the center who spend more.
The press conference setting, on the other hand, say the chat's malicious tongues, is that of Bernardini's Moroccan tenant, late with rent. Jealous tongues, we hope, at least these.
Yet even here the information coincides.
La stessa sartoria di Gubbio, entrata per prima nelle file dei “partner”, è la prima ad uscire, nel periodo in cui Misterhelmet inizia a scrivere. Seguita da altri “insoddisfatti” che hanno aperto gli occhi. Ci invia le foto della tunica che tutti abbiamo imparato a conoscere. Tanto Moda Live sembra che non riuscirà mai a decollare, figurarsi se arriva in Arabia Saudita.
Fashion Live Vest
I am not an architect, but the Arabs are naive and don't give a f---!
"The Arabs are naive. They don't care about titles, they just need facts," Bernardini would repeat in more than one conversation. "The purpose of a planner is to get giant projects off the ground. It doesn't matter if they all succeed. I only need one to get rich and that's the end of the story."
But at the end of the story we are still a long way off, both because no project has come to fruition and because there are still many things to be told and many characters to be involved.
In the meantime, we are waiting for payments.
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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