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Title: FIAT on Yamaha race bikes Post by: Neil Lewis on 31 May, 2009, 10:43:12 PM While channel hopping at lunchtime today I caught a bit of the Moto GP. I couldn't help noticing that the Yamaha bikes had FIAT in big letters above the smaller Yamaha names. Does anyone know why FIAT are sponsoring a Japanese motorbike manufacturer?
Neil Title: Re: FIAT on Yamaha race bikes Post by: ncundy on 01 June, 2009, 08:38:23 AM Fiat sponsor Valantino Rossi, the fact he rides Yamaha is pretty incidental. If he moves I guess the sponsorship will move as well.
Title: Re: FIAT on Yamaha race bikes Post by: fay66 on 01 June, 2009, 09:43:18 AM thanks Neil.
I thought that was perhaps the reason. Brian 8227 8) Title: Re: FIAT on Yamaha race bikes Post by: Neil Lewis on 01 June, 2009, 09:55:14 PM OK that makes sense. But I just wondered that, since Ford once had a relationship with Yamaha (1.25 Fiesta engine) whether FIAT had something similar. Afterall it does seem odd that a car company should sponsor a motorbike.
Neil Title: Re: FIAT on Yamaha race bikes Post by: eyore on 03 June, 2009, 07:47:44 PM Fiat sponsor Yamaha not only Valentino Rossi. The team is Fiat Yamaha. His teammate Jorge Lorenzo is also on a Fiat Yamaha. Moto GP is an awsome sport and makes F1 car racing look like childrens pedal cars ;D The sport gets huge TV coverage and circuit attendaces and I assume Fiat get a good return from the younger age profile of the fans.
Title: Re: FIAT on Yamaha race bikes Post by: Kevin MacBride on 04 June, 2009, 12:55:53 AM While I agree that motor cycle racing is exciting to watch, mostly because of the amount of overtaking, plus you can see the rider 'at work'. Last years Moto GP at Laguna Seca was a classic for example. I have to disagree that F1 is easy, I was at Monaco last weekend, and walked the circuit, and to drive a car, any car, never mind one with 800 odd bhp, around those streets, takes a skill beyond most. Hats off to both forms of racing...
Title: Re: FIAT on Yamaha race bikes Post by: eyore on 04 June, 2009, 11:40:09 AM I wasn't really casting aspersions on the F1 drivers ability Kevin,more a comment of the racing from a spectator perspective where the bike racing is far more seat of the pants,amazingly fast with lots of overtaking and generally mistakes end up in the rider going down and out.
Incidentally Danny Pedrosa was officially clocked in practice for last weekends Italian GP at 217mph on his 800cc Honda.Awsome or what :o Title: Re: FIAT on Yamaha race bikes Post by: Jai Sharma on 04 June, 2009, 09:56:23 PM ...until Pedrosa fell off!
Seriously, I love to watch moto GP on telly. Laguna Seca last year was the most bare knuckle racing I have seen on screen since Villeneuve v Arnoux at Dijon (30 years before - eeek!). No doubt about the skill of F1 drivers, and the show is better this year to my eyes, but Moto GP usually has a lot of excitement, and Rossi has a superstar quality in my opinion. |