The RNF MotoGP Team ceased activity last year, in a controversial manner and after only one season of partnership with CryptoDATA – which still maintains legal actions against Dorna due to how it lost its place in the grid.
The problems throughout 2023 were numerous and serious, particularly at the financial level despite CryptoDATA’s apparent ability to invest. Now, the former owner of RNF, Razlan Razali, has spoken again about the situation in statements to Crash.net making new revelations:
– For the first Austrian Grand Prix in 2022, they had paid everything [to Dorna] in such a close deadline. So they seemed to have money and kept on telling us, «money is not a problem». And suddenly it became a problem. Not to say that they’ve done anything bad or whatever, it’s just in my opinion they failed to honour their obligations. I’d go to a race weekend with virtually zero balance in the account, for example. That’s not the way to run a MotoGP team. Every week I’ve been asking, «when is the next payment coming?»
The Malaysian business man admitted that the team enduring until the end of the season was a surprise. Regarding management, he emphasized that control was with CryptoDATA: ‘Regardless of the problems internally, at the end of day they are the 60% majority shareholder of the company. They can do whatever they want. They can fire me if they want. But to effectively get kicked out of the championship, says something’.