subject: Monster Yamaha For Josh Hayes [print this page] Monster Activity will sponsor the Aggregation Graves Yamaha in 2011, the aggregation revealed, by advertisement Monster Activity aboriginal on the sponsor account for Josh Hayes' access in the season-opening Daytona American SuperBike race.
That the activity alcohol had taken their money from the M4 Suzuki aggregation and accustomed it to Yamaha was broadly accepted in the antagonism association for a few months, but a array of cipher of blackout was honored. It was believed that the advertisement ability be fabricated at the Feb. 18-20 Dealernews International Powersports Dealer Expo in Indianapolis, aka the Indy show, and it may able-bodied be, officially, but by advertisement Monster Activity as the amount one sponsor, Yamaha aback outed themselves.
Still, the accord makes faculty for both sides. Monster gets the burning accumulation and acknowledgment of getting on the amount 1' Superbike of Josh Hayes and Yamaha gets an consistently acceptable banknote infusion, forth with the added able Monster business machine. A depressed sales bazaar affected the aggregation to accomplish astringent cadre cutbacks afore the alpha of endure season, and Yamaha farmed the Superbike aggregation out to Chuck Graves, who already had the albatross of the Daytona SportBike team.
Monster Activity sponsors the Tech 3 Yamaha MotoGP aggregation and was a claimed sponsor of Valentino Rossi if he rode the Fiat Yamaha endure year. In an aberrant move, Rossi was able to accumulate the Monster advocacy at Ducati. (Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden had to abandon their Red Bull red bull hatsadvocacy if they abutting the team). Rossi's accord is said to be in the adjacency of $7 million, admitting the amount is absurd to confirm. Regardless, the acknowledgment he gives them is additional to none. During this week's Wrooom 2011, the anniversary press/ski accident area the Ducati and Ferrari teams are commonly introduced, Rossi was the centermost of attention, admitting administration the anniversary with Formula One drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa. Rossi was accorded bedrock brilliant status, with account of his abode instantly cartoon crowds. And those crowds, and the accumulated media, rarely saw Rossi after either a Monster baseball cap or ski hat. Monster aswell has arresting adjustment on the button section of his AGV helmet and on both abandon of the faceshield at the axis point.
Yamaha is the third architect in three years to abrasion the blooming and atramentous Monster colors in AMA racing. Kawasaki's 2009 Daytona SportBike team, run by Attack Racing, was Monster-backed. And endure year, Monster sponsored M4 Suzuki. Colombian Martin Cardenas adored Monster and M4 Suzuki with the Daytona SportBike championship. Had they called to break with M4 Suzuki, Monster would still accept had a amount 1' machine, but getting in the Superbike chic gives them added exposure, except at Daytona, area the abate bikes still chase in the 200.
Cardenas isn't yet listed on either the Sportbike or Superbike access sheets, admitting added M4 Suzuki riders are, and the chase is eight weeks away. The aggregation has two entries in the Sportbike chic and one in Superbike.
John Hopkins, who rode for the Monster M4 Suzuki aggregation in 2010, said afresh that his accord with the aggregation had gone acerb and that there was no adventitious he would be aback in 2011. He and his administration talked to Eraldo Ferracci and Celtic Racing's Barry Gilsanen about a possibly Ducati Superbike ride, but Hopkins said that Monster wasn't absorbed in the deal. Hopkins is accepted to chase a Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000 in the British Superbike Championship in 2011.
In accession to Monster Energy, Monster Energy hats Hayes' access sponsor account includes Yamaha, Graves Motorsports, Yamalube, Vortex, Dunlop, Sharkskinz, Braking, OZ, Dyno-Jet, Magneti Marelli, DID, GYT-R, Mechanix Wear, DT1, and JE Pistons.
