ducati-toshiba-satellite

Project Info

Clients: Ducati, Intel & Toshiba
Task: Partnership with the Ducati Corse Team
Timing: 2009 – 2010


About Project

The partnership between Ducati, the prestigious Italian motorcycle manufacturer, Intel, and Toshiba, leading companies in the field of Information Technology, has given rise to an innovative dual agreement arrived at through the consultancy services of RTR Sports Marketing.

The agreement between these 3 international brands involves Toshiba supplying its notebooks, based on Intel processors, which the Ducati MotoGp Team will use to control the electronics of its bikes, marrying the best in electronics with the best in the Italian motorcycle tradition and promising even greater on-track performance for the Borgo Panigale-based team, thanks to cutting-edge technological solutions.

The partnership has proved to be extremely fruitful and has also given rise to a licensing project enabling Toshiba to produce the first in a series of Ducati-branded products: the ultra-portable Satellite U500 Ducati Edition notebook. This state-of-the-art computer, equipped with Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor technology, offers unrivalled performance and stands out with its elegant, sporty looks: compact, solid and balanced, inspired by the fairing of the Ducati bikes.

The notebook, which offers maximum mobility thanks to the use of light, sturdy materials, was officially unveiled in Berlin at the IFA technology fair and in Misano on the occasion of the thirteenth round of the 2009 motorcycle world championships.

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I have known and worked with Riccardo Tafà since 1995 when we collaborated for the first time on a project for the Williams Formula 1 team. Several clients followed. After leaving Williams to work for Gerhard Berger then owner of the Toro Rosso F1 Team, I turned again to Riccardo to seek his help in finding a tool supplier for the team and Riccardo duly obliged with an introduction to USAG, a partnership with Toro Rosso which endured for five years. I recently started a new role as Group Commercial Director for the renowned Andretti Autosport organisation and I find myself working with Riccardo once again on a number of interesting projects. Why has this relationship with Riccardo endured ? He’s smart, knows the commercial side of sport inside out and back to front and he’s honest and trustworthy. Riccardo Tafà is a “doer” not a “talker”: in over 20 years I have never had a dispute either with him or with a company that he has introduced and each partnership introduced by Riccardo has delivered quantifiable ROI to rights holder and sponsor alike. I can think of no better testimonial of Riccardo’s diligence, knowledge, contact base and hard work than that.

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Jim Wright

Group Commercial Director

We have been working with RTR Sports Marketing for over 10 years. The objectives and the programmes of collaboration continue to be renewed and to grow with mutual satisfaction. I believe RTR is a team of great professionals led by Riccardo Tafà, who I consider a manager of exceptional skills and with a great passion for his work.

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Lucio Cecchinello

Team Principal

I would like to highlight the fact that one of the qualities of RTR is its great ability to approach the sponsorship scenario strategically, together with its passionate attitude, its amazing enthusiasm for solving problems, and its high level of professionalism.

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Gianluca Degliesposti

Executive Director Server&Storage EMEA

Eurosport is truly delighted with its business relationship with Riccardo Tafà, who has become extremely popular, thanks to his detailed knowledge of the sports marketing sector and his highly diligent attitude to work.

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Francois Ribeiro

Commercial Director

Passion and Expertise are the features that I have found in RTR since the very beginning. Serious and reliable professionals but also very helpful, nice and open-mind people, willing to listen and compare different ideas. All the values in which RTR believes make this agency a partner, not just a supplier, a partner with whom we have had the opportunity to achieve significant commercial results in term of success and image.

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Luca Pacitto

Head of Communication

we have been working with RTR for over ten years now, with results that have been satisfactory to say the least; we have always been very happy with the high level of professionalism, the original creativity and the support that the agency and its staff have constantly guaranteed us.

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Livio Suppo

Team Principal

We have been working with RTR for some years and we have always valued their skill, professionalism and attention to detail. The extensive knowledge of MotoGP makes Riccardo Tafà and his team an ideal partner for companies wishing to enter into this world.

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Lin Jarvis

Managing Director

I would like to highlight the fact that one of the qualities of RTR is its great ability to approach the sponsorship scenario strategically, together with its passionate attitude, its amazing enthusiasm for solving problems, and its high level of professionalism.

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Executive Director Server&Storage EMEA

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