There Petronas as sponsor he has already formalized his farewell to MotoGP at the end of 2021. The Malaysian giant specialized in the hydrocarbon field joined in 2019 alongside the Yamaha Sepang Racing Team customer structure, amazing everyone and making the talent of Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo. After three years, however, the adventure in the premier class of the World Championship is at the end of the title. The same could also happen in F1, even if the two ‘operations’ are not linked. Petronas has been a partner and title sponsor of the Mercedes, ruler of the turbo-hybrid era of F1 that began in 2014.
According to what was reported by the authoritative journalist Dieter Rencken, Mercedes would be ready for a handover from one oil company to another without even such a radical change from the chromatic point of view. In fact, she is ready to pick up the baton from Petronas Aramco, that is the national company of Saudi Arabia with regard to hydrocarbons, a brand that starting from 2020 has also colored the circuits being a fundamental partner for the Circus at this time certainly not flourishing as regards the coffers of the maximum automotive formula that is going through the pandemic linked to the Coronavirus with all the restrictions that have arisen. The agreement between Mercedes and Aramco could start as early as 2022.
The bond between Mercedes and Aramco is guaranteed by Ineos, which since the end of 2020 has owned a third of the AMG-F1 team divided into three parts between the British petrochemical giant, Toto Wolff and the Daimler group. In fact, in 2019, Ineos invested two billion euros in Saudi Arabia to build, together with Aramco and Total, three new state-of-the-art hydrocarbon extraction and refinery plants that will come into operation in 2025.