Reports emerged closing week in the Italian press that Rossi would be promoting his VR46 organisation, including its colossal prix trail teams, for 150 million euros to Tanal Leisure and Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
Tanal Leisure is the corporate allegedly in the help of the VR46 MotoGP team’s title sponsorship tackle Saudi oil large Aramco for 2022.
On the replacement hand, Motorsport.com has got two statements from Aramco in contemporary months denying any involvement with VR46, whereas the CEO of Aramco has stated as such in conferences at some level of the Dutch TT weekend in June.
Whereas the relationship between Aramco and VR46 remains a thriller, Rossi – who announced his retirement from MotoGP at the pause of 2021 on Thursday – moved to reveal reports of a sale of his VR46 company.
“It’s absolutely now now not true that we should always always promote VR46 to the Saudis,” Rossi stated on Friday after observe for the Styrian Gargantuan Prix. “Here is appropriate made-up news, we don’t even center of attention on it.
“We uncover it irresistible, we’ve our entire world there and it’s one thing that I may additionally gentle now now not have any idea how it came out.”
Luca Marini, Esponsorama Racing
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Tanal Leisure is region to relief a press conference shortly regarding its Saudi Vision 2030 initiative and its tie-up with VR46, nonetheless Rossi says he doesn’t know noteworthy in regards to the event.
“As for Tanal, I don’t know noteworthy about this press conference,” he added. “Our lawyers and accountants are working in VR46, who’re attempting to pause the entire lot.
“But perchance I’m now now not the fine man to discuss this stuff, because I do know as much as a diploma.”
Rumours have additionally emerged of ex-Rossi team-mate Maverick Vinales presumably becoming a member of the VR46 team next year alongside Luca Marini.
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But Rossi has moved to quash rumours of Vinales racing for his team, stating: “We love Maverick loads because he is a top rider, and then I repeatedly got along thoroughly with him when we had been teammates.
“There may be quite a lot of recognize between us, nonetheless we belief about making this team to invent the riders of the [VR46] Academy trail and that is our programme.”
