Italy's Pirelli has signed a joint venture with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) to build a tyre manufacturing facility in the country, the two groups said on Thursday. The deal - for a total investment of $550-Million - will make Pirelli the first tier 1 tyre maker to directly source production in Saudi Arabia, which is trying to diversify its

PIF, Saudi Arabia’s $700-Billion sovereign wealth fund, will hold a 75% stake in the new JV, with Pirelli holding the remaining 25% and providing the technical and commercial support for the development of the project, the two groups said.

Reports back in January claimed that the PIF was targeting to buy Formula 1 from commercial rights holders Liberty Media and planning to pay up to $20-Billion.

  • @EyesEyesBaby
    14•1 year ago

    If they’d actually buy F1 that would probably be the end of F1 as we know it.

    • @SatouKazuma
      3•1 year ago

      I hope Formula 1 dies if that happens. I’ll just skip motorsport for a while.

  • @remer
    13•1 year ago

    Yuck. I’m sure they’ll be happy to use all that slave labor.

  • @[email protected]
    4•1 year ago

    So they’re not actually making F1 tyres there, this is just a joint venture for normal tyres. iirc the tyres for F1 are made in turkey.