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*Stolen from MotoGP website*

Camel lands title sponsorship for Yamaha Factory Racing
News, 09/01/06

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the start of a new partnership with JT International (JTI), a subsidiary of Japan Tobacco Inc., whose brand CAMEL will become the new title sponsor of Yamaha’s Factory MotoGP Team for 2006.

The Yamaha Factory MotoGP Team, consisting of reigning-World Champion Valentino Rossi and his team-mate Colin Edwards, will be known as the “Camel Yamaha Team” in 2006.

Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Racing Lin Jarvis commented “Yamaha is very excited to enter into this new partnership with JTI. JTI has been involved in motorsport at the highest level for many years and has been an active sponsor at the top level in the MotoGP class for the past three seasons. We look forward to working with JTI to enhance the respective images of our brands and to challenge together for victory, as Yamaha enters its “next 50 years” and aims to retain its MotoGP titles in 2006.”

“A new chapter in the history of Camel in motorsport is just beginning”, commented Roberto Zanni, JTI’s Regional President for Europe, “After three years of great satisfaction in the premier class of the World Road Racing Championship, we are today launching a new challenge for the title. Our new partnership with Yamaha, the historic, championship-winning Japanese manufacturer, will be highly motivating for us and it will be an honour to be by their side throughout the 2006 season. We share the same passion and desire for victory and, I am sure, success will not be long in coming.”

The Camel Yamaha Team will begin its 2006 campaign in Sepang, Malaysia with a three-day test on 23rd, 24th and 25th January.

wow..way to jump on a bandwagon..ditch honda (and kawasaki) and jump on the winning team...
so where does this leave gaulosis??

so they get into a shitfight with gauloises cos rossi doesn't want tobacco sponsorship and then go sign up another tobacco brand ....

might have been a extra dollar in it for rossi and camel is garunteed to have its sponsership where it wants it.

beryl wrote:might have been a extra dollar in it for rossi and camel is garunteed to have its sponsership where it wants it.

maybe rossi is a smoker now??

its amazing wot the power of the $$ can do huh??

i thought rossi was tarting his own team neway??..maybe "quitline" can sponsor him??

Re:Rossi and cigarette sponsorship : "Money talks, bullshit walks...just ask Max"

I read somewhere that Rossi wasn't going to have a team mate this year and stay clear tobacco sponsorship.

I can't keep up.

Found it:

But there was a catch 22. Rossi had demanded to ride without tobacco sponsorship. Yamaha had agreed to this if Rossi rode with a “private” Yamaha team. Notionally, then, Yamaha would run a Gauloises-sponsored factory team, led, we assume, by Colin Edwards and another rider to be named later, while Rossi ran his own team with a non-tobacco sponsor.

This was absurd, Altadis bosses claimed. The idea that Rossi’s Yamaha team would be less than “official” was nonsense. Altadis would be the laughing stock of the paddock spending their 20 million to sponsor a Yamaha team sans Valentino.

(Altadis, French-Spanish company owns the Gauloises and Fortuna cigarette brands, along with some twenty other labels.)

A flouro Yellow 46 plate on a dark yellow Yamaha, Gibbasook will be able to see Rossi's bike coming from inside the cargo bay of the Motogp Jumbo before it lands.for each otherseas round. .
He'll still kick their bums & more power to him.
Has anyone noticed how Rossi's mates at any given time fill the podium positions ?. Do you think it has anything to do with who he lets follow him around during practice & Qualifing or what ?.
Bring on 06, Go Randy Nakkers ..
cheers Brett :

money talks !

Rossi done a back flip