Alcantara® at the Motomondiale with the Gresini Team
June 2005Alcantara® brings its inimitable style and unmistakable softness to the Motomondiale too.
Alcantara® brings its inimitable style and unmistakable softness to the Motomondiale too. Alcantara® is in fact Technical Sponsor of the Gresini Movistar Honda Team in the 2005 GP Motor Cycle world championship.Alcantara® upholstered the team’s Hospitality Area with class and elegance, the same material is also employed for the seating used by the racing drivers between races when they relax and confer with the technicians.Fausto Gresini, after a brilliant racing career, decided to create a team with which, in 1997, he debuted in the Motomondiale. From 1997 to now the Gresini team has taken part in 142 GP (77 in 500/MotoGP, 65 in 250), has won 26 contests, has achieved second place 25 times and third place 17 times for a total of 68 times on the podium.Today members of the Gresini i, www.gresiniracing.com, team will be:Sete Gibernau has been with Gresini for three years and his sports maturity coincides with his arrival in this team: “For me my team has always been the best, in these years together it has given me so much that was lacking in the past. The team has enabled me to obtain current results. It is a great family, we are united and we give each other support, this gives us that extra something. We are winners.”Marco Melandri has just joined the team after two difficult years but, thanks to a warm welcome and a healthy dose of Romagnolo character, he is smiling again: “After two difficult years I needed tofind enjoyment in riding again and most of all to work with a team with my same mentality. For me the Gresini team was the best choice I could have made in a decisive moment of my career. Here I have found not just a team of the highest technical level but also a family, they are from Romagna like me, we have the same mentality. I feel I have 100% support and this gives me great confidence. After work we have dinner together and laugh and joke. I began to enjoy myself again on the bike starting from the first autumn trials”.
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