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MotoGP promotes itself as the F1 of two wheels, but its teams, many of its teams, show up for Grand Prix starts without a main sponsor.
This is also the case for the Trackhouse Aprilia team, which will change the iconic Gulf livery with which it raced in Thailand and Argentina back to Trackhouse corporate colors, aligning the design of the RS-GP 25 with the NASCAR livery.
This is because Gulf is not the main sponsor of the Italian-American team.
After all, the team manager, Davide Brivio, anticipated this at the beginning of the season.
"We are discussing with some partners, if things go well we may welcome new ones, and of course we will have to revise our livery," the manager explained.
The result is that the iconic shell is back to a space of a few centimeters on the front fender.
By now it is long past time that the fastest two-wheelers in the world do not flaunt heavyweight sponsors, the only exception being the Ducati team with the Chinese company Lenovo and a plethora of co-sponsors, so much so that they have no room to add more. Honda itself, as it is wont to do in times of crisis, dusted off the Castrol livery, moreover already on Zarco's bike in the LCR team, but it's evident that its main sponsor is HRC and Honda Motor.
The four KTMs on track all flaunt the Red Bull branding, but we doubt the budget is double that.
All this while the announced marriage with Liberty Media is yet to be finalized, and some observers even have doubts that it will go through. Of course, for the time being, we still do not see any Made in USA multinational companies flocking to the door of Carmelo Ezpeleta's Dorna. But then again, motorcycle racing has always been considered a minor sport in the States even when it was American riders who were the masters, let alone today when there is not a single one in the premier class!
The Trackhouse team is in Austin with rookie revelation Ai Ogura who was stripped of 8th place in Rio Hondo because of an irregularity in the ECU firmware.
