Iveco is a partner of the 2012 MotoGP

Iveco is a partner of the 2012 MotoGP World Championship

For the third consecutive year, Iveco is once again a partner as Trucks & Commercial Vehicles Supplier for the 2012 MotoGP season, the main international motorbike championship that started with the exciting floodlit Qatar race in Doha. The opening round of the World Championship has seen the first two corners branded Iveco New Daily, together with the iconic Superman logo which Iveco has used alongside its launch.  

The 2012 MotoGP season, which stretches over 18 Grand Prix in 14 different countries, builds on the sport’s 60 year history and is broadcast on television in 207 countries, with an average audience of 30 million people per race. Thanks to an agreement reached with Dorna Sports, the Iveco brand will be present and highly visible at many circuits this year.  

Iveco is also Title Sponsor of both the Assen race in Holland and the Aragon (Teruel) race in Spain, taking place on the 30th June and 30th September respectively.  The events will be referred to as the Iveco TT Assen 2012 and the Iveco Grand Prix de Aragon. On both tracks the Iveco brand will be visible along the entire circuit, including on the bridge over the starting grid. 

And once again this year, Iveco will provide essential support for the championship organisers by supplying 13 Stralis and four New Dailys that will transport fittings, materials and equipment, offices and mobile workshops for all competition venues.  

The partnership also continues between Iveco and Team Yamaha Factory Racing, which has entered 2011 Championship runner-up Jorge Lorenzo and MotoGP's rising star, Ben Spies, who was ranked 5th overall last year.  Iveco will be the Official Sponsor of the Team and, as in the previous seasons, it shall provide 7 Stralis and 2 Dailys to transport the Yamaha motorbikes and personnel between circuits, along with their equipment, workshops and mobile offices.  

The partnership between Iveco and the Pramac Racing Team of rider Héctor Barbera will also continue, with Iveco supplying 3 Ecostralis tractor units to support the team. In synch with Iveco and with the principles of increasingly sustainable mobility, the Team Pramac's "eco" efforts continue as they show an increasing concern for the environment: the structure they will be using to house the team and personnel at events will be extra-lightweight in order to reduce fuel consumption during shipment, the interior décor will be made from entirely recycled materials and like the mobile offices it will be powered using wind turbines. Furthermore, the Team will be using electric motorbikes to move around the Paddock. 

Iveco’s close involvement with the World Motorcycle Championships continues to be viewed by Iveco as a great opportunity to promote its full range of commercial vehicles and its brand throughout the world.

Talleres Fandos, will be in the Iveco Grand Prix de Aragon on the 30th September

Webber wins Monaco GP

Mark Webber kept a five-car train at bay in tricky conditions to secure the second Monaco Grand Prix victory of his career and become the sixth winner in as many races in the 2012 Formula One season.

That statistic is unprecedented in F1 history, but Webber's win did make Red Bull the first team to notch up a repeat win this year.

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg was second, while Fernando Alonso completed the podium for Ferrari and now leads the world championship. Sebastian Vettel in the second Red Bull, Lewis Hamilton's McLaren and Alonso's team-mate Felipe Massa rounded out a very close top six.

Pole position starter Webber held off Rosberg's Mercedes away from the grid, then remained ahead through the sole pitstop sequence, despite Rosberg going for fresh tyres earlier.

Vettel brought himself into contention by getting up to sixth at the start, then stayed out until lap 45 before switching from softs to the super softs that everyone else had started the race on. Lapping 1.5s faster than anyone else for a spell while leading, Vettel was able to emerge from his stop in fourth ahead of Hamilton, who had lost out to Alonso in the pits.

Rain had threatened all afternoon, and became slightly heavier going into the final eight laps, just as the leaders' tyres began to fade. That brought the top six even closer together, with Rosberg, Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton and Massa - in his strongest drive of the year so far - suddenly right on Webber's tail. But as the drizzle eased again, the pace increased and Webber was able to wrap up his first win of 2012.

A start crash eliminated another podium contender. Lotus's Romain Grosjean made a slow start then tangled with Michael Schumacher's Mercedes, breaking the Lotus's suspension and sending it spinning across the pack at Sainte Devote. Amazingly none of the frontrunners hit it, but it did clip Kamui Kobayashi's Sauber, which became airborne and later retired with suspension damage. Further back, Barcelona winner Pastor Maldonado (Williams) ran into Pedro de la Rosa's HRT.

Schumacher was able to continue and ran seventh until fuel pressure problems forced him to retire.

Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso) then picked up that position - a very early pitstop on lap 18 having given him chance to run in clean air and vault up the order. But a decision to pit for intermediates in the late shower proved misguided and dropped him out of the points.

Force India scored with both cars as Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg finished seventh and eighth, followed by Kimi Raikkonen in the remaining Lotus. The Finn lost time when his tyres dramatically faded in the first stint and he then spent a while trapped behind Charles Pic's Marussia following his stop. Bruno Senna completed the scorers for Williams.

Jenson Button failed to make any progress in the second McLaren. After taking to the escape road to avoid the first-corner crash, he spent most of the afternoon trying to pass Heikki Kovalainen's Caterham, eventually spinning at the second part of the Swimming Pool in his efforts, and retiring soon after.

Kovalainen had been on course for 11th, but had to pit with front wing damage amid a fraught battle with Sauber's Sergio Perez, so fell to 13th behind Vergne.

Iveco supplies the Scuderia Ferrari with vehicles that transport the Formula 1 Grand Prix cars to the world championship race tracks. The company is very proud of its partnership with Ferrari and puts great value on the use of its products by such a world leading sporting enterprise.

Iveco employs almost 25,000 people and runs 24 production units in 11 Countries in the world using excellent technologies developed in 6 research centres. Besides Europe, the company operates in China, Russia, Australia and Latin America. Around 5,000 sales and service outlets in over 160 Countries guarantee technical support wherever in the world an Iveco vehicle is at work.