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Saturday, 3rd November 2018 - Sepang International
Circuit (SIC) and Yamaha Motor Company today formalized their partnership in
supporting the participation of PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang MotoGP™ Team in the 2019
FIM MotoGP™ World Championship. The new team, which will be carrying the title
sponsorship from PETRONAS, will be fielding Franco Morbidelli and Fabio
Quartararo as their riders.
The two parties
signed the agreement in the Press Conference Room at the sidelines of the
on-going Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix 2018, which enters its second day
today.
SIC was
represented by its Chief Executive Officer, Dato Razlan Razali while Yamaha
Motor Company was represented by Lin Jarvis, who is Yamaha Motor Racing
Managing Director.
The signing of the
landmark agreement witnessed by Malaysian Youth and Sports Minister, YB Tuan
Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, Dorna CEO, Mr Carmelo Ezpeleta, SIC Chairman,
Tan Sri Azman Yahya and Kouji Tsuya, who is the MotoGP Group Leader of Yamaha
Motor Company, Datuk Seri Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, Vice President
or Marketing PETRONAS and Puan Zahariah(Liza) Abdul Rahman, Senior General
Manager Group Strategic Communications PETRONAS.
Under the
agreement, Yamaha Motor Company will be providing four (4) race bikes and
engineering support for PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang MotoGP™ Team for the 2019, 2020
and 2021 MotoGP™ season.
Speaking at the
signing ceremony, YB Tuan Syed Saddiq congratulated SIC, Yamaha and PETRONAS on
formation of the MotoGP™ racing team; expressing hope that it would not just
help in the making of racers amongst Malaysians, but also building a holistic
development of auxiliary fields related to motorsports in the country including
engineers and managers.
“These are
exciting times in Malaysia. The fact that we have our very own MotoGP™ racing
team showed the great interest by the Government in the development of
motorsports in the country and SIC as the hub of motorsports,” the minister
said.
Thanking Yamaha
for their support and confidence, Dato’ Razlan said team, which will be based
in Belgium, aimed to make an immediate impact in its first season with
Morbidelli gunning for the best independent rider and Quartararo to target for
the best rookie award in 2019.
Jarvis, in his
comments, said that Yamaha was fully committed to supporting the new team and
although the initial agreement is for 3 years he hoped to work together for
many years in the future in the MotoGP World Championship.
Mr Ezpeleta said
he was delighted to have SIC as a key player in the premier class and Petronas,
which was title sponsor for Yamaha Factory Racing few years back, is returning
as key partner in MotoGP™.
He also said that
Dorna was pleased with what SIC have done to the sports in the region; boosting
its popularity which paved way for the introduction of Thailand Grand Prix this
season.
-Sepang Circuit facebook.
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