Explaining the sponsorship mess at Rossi’s VR46 MotoGP team

In April a Saudi company known as Tanal Entertainment issued a press release announcing VR46 would come to MotoGP in 2022 with Aramco as its title sponsor, with VR46 confirming the news last month alongside a three-year deal with Ducati.

However, the title sponsorship deal between Aramco and VR46 doesn’t actually exist, despite insistence from the VR46 camp that it has.

The Saudi oil…