MotoGP legend Rossi’s team will step up to the premier class in 2022, having previously raced in Moto2 and Moto3, and ran Luca Marini’s side of the Avintia garage in 2021.
When VR46’s MotoGP step up was first announced, it was done so via Saudi Arabian company Tanal Entertainment – who at the time said oil giant Aramco would sponsor the team.
Aramco denied this in a statement issued to Autosport, saying: “Aramco confirms that it has not signed a strategic agreement with the MotoGP VR46 team or any of MotoGP’s other affiliates.
“Aramco has never had a commercial relationship with Tanal Entertainment, MotoGP or any MotoGP team.”
VR46 and Rossi insisted for much of 2021 that a deal with Aramco had been agreed, but announced at the start of 2022 that its title sponsorship would come from Italian banking company Mooney.
When asked by Autosport following VR46’s official 2022 launch event on Thursday why its Aramco deal fell through, team boss Nieto…
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