After two seasons with Mooney, the VR46 Racing Team will have a new title sponsor in MotoGP in 2024. The sponsor will be PT Pertamina Lubricants, and the team will be known as Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team.
The Indonesian oil company will be a partner of the VR46 Racing Team for the next three years. The team will use Pertamina’s lubricants, and their logos will be featured on the Ducati bikes, helmets, and racing suits of Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi.
Alessio Salucci, team director, stated in a press release: ‘Welcoming Pertamina Lubricants, which for the next three seasons will be the title partner of the VR46 Racing Team, marks in a crucial way the history of our Team, an important piece and a further step forward in achieving our goals. We are truly honored to have entered into an agreement with a brand of this kind in the world of motorsport. With this new synergy, we not only share common ambitions, but we combine the two largest and most loyal fan bases in MotoGP. A bridge between the Italian fans and all those who follow us from Indonesia and to whom we hope to give important satisfactions in the future. This long-term project between two companies so experienced in the world of motorcycling and competitions, such as VR46 Racing Team and Pertamina Lubricants, aims to bring true passion for this sport from a unique point of view to hundreds of thousands of fans all around the world. In 2024, a new era of our history in MotoGP starts, an adventure full of successes, which began only two years ago, and which would not have been possible without the support and participation of a partner like Mooney who I would like to thank personally for mutual trust and respect’.
From Pertamina’s side, President Director Werry Prayogi mentioned: ‘The partnership between PT Pertamina Lubricants and VR46 Racing Team is a strategic move to extending our vision of becoming a champion in the lubricants industry. This is proof that VR46 Racing Team and Valentino Rossi place great trust in the international quality of Pertamina Enduro’.