The Fan Powered Sponsorship Program of Team Gresini Racing MotoGP is facilitated by Animoca Brands Limted and specifically it's subsidiaries WePlay Media and SPORTPASS. The program is done under license from Gresini Racing via the MotoGP Guru program. Guru is a primary sponsor of the Gresini Racing team.
“The Gresini’s Fan Power Sponsorship is a program created, developed and implemented by Animoca Brands under the Gresini Racing’s license. Gresini Racing’s liability is limited to its role of licensor with no responsibility on neither the sale of the Fan Power Sponsorship nor on the delivery of the related experiences and/or prizes.”
About Gresini Racing:
Founded by the two-time 125cc World Champion Fausto Gresini, who recently passed away, Gresini Racing has been competing in the MotoGP World Championship since 1997, achieving prestigious sporting results. In addition to the five world titles won in 2001 with Daijiro Kato (250cc), in 2010 with Toni Elias (Moto2), 2018 with Jorge Martin (Moto3) and the Del Conca Gresini Team (Moto3), and in 2019 with Matteo Ferrari (MotoE), there are also the MotoGP World Championship runner-up titles obtained for three consecutive years, in 2003 and 2004 with Sete Gibernau and in 2005 with Marco Melandri, as well as the Moto3 runner-up title of Fabio Di Giannantonio in 2018. The latest achievement is the spectacular third place of Enea Bastianini in 2022. All of this is the result of 73 victories and an impressive 213 podium finishes. Gresini Racing has also seen champions like Alex Barros, Loris Capirossi, Colin Edwards, and Marco Simoncelli among its ranks.
Today, Gresini Racing faces a new challenge: the 2024 season sees them seeking confirmation in MotoGP with the Marquez brothers, who together boast 10 titles. In Moto2, there is another all-Spanish lineup with Manu Gonzalez and Albert Arenas, while in MotoE, Matteo Ferrari and Alessio Finello have been confirmed.
About WePlay Media:
WePlay Media was founded in 2014 by gaming veterans Mark De Simone and Graeme Warring. In January 2023 it was acquired by Animoca Brands. WePlay Media brought the MotoGP World Championship to the app stores in 2016 when it released the officially licensed MotoGP mobile racing game, Championship Quest. The app has now been downloaded over 60 million times and has around 1.5 million monthly active users. WePlay Media also produced the official prediction game of MotoGP, MotoGP Guru PREDICT. In 2023 MotoGP Guru sponsored the Spanish Grand Prix and Australian Grand Prix in addition to a major sponsorship of Gresini Racing MotoGP. In May 2024 the company will release the 2024 season updates to both apps and incorporate the Play & Earn systems focused on the REVV token.
About SPORTPASS:
SPORTPASS, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands and a next-generation fan engagement and gaming platform designed to enable sports properties to deliver gaming, rewards and competition experiences to their fans. For more information visit https://sportpass.co.
About Animoca Brands Limited:
Animoca Brands (ACN: 122 921 813), a Deloitte Tech Fast winner, a Fortune Crypto 40 company, and one of the Financial Times’ High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2023, is a Web3 leader that leverages blockchain to deliver digital property rights to consumers around the world to help to establish the open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including original games such as The Sandbox, PHANTOM GALAXIES™, Life Beyond, and Crazy Defense Heroes, and products utilizing popular intellectual properties from the worlds of sports and entertainment, such as The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Animoca Brands Japan, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, TinyTap, SPORTPASS, PIXELYNX, WePlay Media, Gryfyn, and Azarus. Animoca Brands is one of the most active investors in Web3, with a portfolio of over 400 Web3 investments, both directly and through Animoca Ventures, including Yuga Labs, Axie Infinity, Polygon, Consensys, Magic Eden, Fireblocks, OpenSea, Dapper Labs, Yield Guild Games, and many more. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on X (Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok.