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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 4:10 pm 
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http://rokbrands.com

Holy shit; fingers in pies galore.


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Being sponsored by products that actually exist is so 2018.


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http://rokbrands.com

Holy shit; fingers in pies galore.
Looks like some MLM scam...

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And the livery:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/WilliamsRacing/status/1094976935703257090[/tweet]

Fairly uninspiring.


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Neil wrote:
http://rokbrands.com

Holy shit; fingers in pies galore.


my goodness, first was fake racing with team orders, then fake tracks, then fake cars with fake action, now is fake sponsors. The 'F' on F1 now stands for Fake 1 World Championship

EDIT: saw the 88 on the nose and thought it was the Eyetime sponsor, it'd be too much

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Cynicism is rife at the moment. More about Rok and the people behind it are here - http://rokstars.com/

One of main people behind Rok brought Yokohama into Europe, whereas the other was behind a hair care product brand plus Patron Tequila.

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Cynicism is rife at the moment. More about Rok and the people behind it are here - http://rokstars.com/

One of main people behind Rok brought Yokohama into Europe, whereas the other was behind a hair care product brand plus Patron Tequila.



well, ok. They got more creds than Rich Energy. But that isnt really a challenge.


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micha wrote:
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Cynicism is rife at the moment. More about Rok and the people behind it are here - http://rokstars.com/

One of main people behind Rok brought Yokohama into Europe, whereas the other was behind a hair care product brand plus Patron Tequila.



well, ok. They got more creds than Rich Energy. But that isnt really a challenge.


Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing people for being cynical. It took me a while to find the parent company website and there's lots of information to review including financial statements.

The concept behind Rokit seems interesting. Time will tell if the phones are WiFi are marketable commodities for the target audience.

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Rokit also sponsor the stadium that the LA Chargers play in (both their current temporary home and the one they are moving to) as well as the Houston Rockets (NBA).

(your joke goes here)

If they were a scam, it seems more than likely that they would have been uncovered by now.

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Sounds good for Williams then. What's the length of the contract?


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The deal was announced during an event at the team’s factory — attended by this year’s new driver line-up of Robert Kubica and George Russell — and is described as a multi-year agreement.


https://racer.com/2019/02/11/williams-u ... ship-deal/

Guessing that means 2 years with options to extend.

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Bloody Hell, these two liveries have just been insipid. So Williams and Hass have the opportunity to start totally afresh, can do anything they want...and this is what they serve up?


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Neil wrote:
http://rokbrands.com

Holy shit; fingers in pies galore.


The very first thing that poped into my mind was..."Prestige World Wide, the first word in Entertainment"



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Sky Germany is going to broadcast F1 again this year as Sky Sport F1 :metal:


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Renault:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/RenaultF1Team/status/1095297118003183616[/tweet]
[tweet]https://twitter.com/RenaultF1Team/status/1095289242421477377[/tweet]


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I hope we're not going to have a grid of black cars with splashes of colour.


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Better than a grid of mostly white cars...


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well you can blame that on the tobacco ban, even the throwbacks are based on the good old times of the coloured cigarette packs

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well you can blame that on the tobacco ban, even the throwbacks are based on the good old times of the coloured cigarette packs


They don't deserve such an easy excuse. IndyCar teams have managed to look great.


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Ah yes, CART teams were better on handling that since only 4 teams had tobacco sponsorship in their heyday

their sponsor were also better, take 1998 for instance, the Valvoline, Shell and Target cars looked great in comparison to F1 cars from the era such as Winfield Williams

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