After four years, the partnership between Team Honda Gresini and San Carlo - Food Group has been renewed for another season, extending the collaboration that was born because of shared values and strengthened over time because of the passion, the love of competition, loyalty and team spirit. This harmony also made it possible to define, in advance of next season, the very important agreement with Marco Simoncelli, whom San Carlo strongly wanted. The Romagnolo will be part of a project launched toward ambitious goals.

Marco Simoncelli is the current 250cc World Champion. His aggressive driving style and extroverted personality, including his legendary hair, have made Simoncelli popular not only on the track but also to the general public.
 
"We are extremely pleased to be able to double this important announcement : the renewal of the collaboration with St. Charles, who believed in us and continues to support our choices again next year, and the agreement reached with Marco Simoncelli to race with us in MotoGP,” said Fausto Gresini." Mark has in his DNA that grit and character that we wish to belong to a pilot and we are sure that together we will live exciting emotions. Mark has shown over the past two years to have great qualities and has become a protagonist of the highest class, in addition to being an excellent communicator. With him, we have been feeling great and this has facilitated the dialogue towards an agreement that will bind the contract to us for the 2010 season. Honda is also impressed with Simoncelli’s esteem and considers him a driver with great potential. Today is both an important day and while sharing together exciting moments, we hope the best for Mark as he fights with the determination to recapture the title."

"The choice of sponsorship depends on the people who make up a team,” said Alberto Vitaloni, president of San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare."This is why for four years we have decided to tie the team to Fausto Gresini, a professional and a friend who has a team made up of people who think like us and who share the same values. The choice of having Marco Simoncelli on the team makes us very happy, because he is not only a great champion, but a number one of sympathy. We are sure that the whole team will learn from this adventure and that the next season we enjoy a lot of satisfaction from a human point of view and, hopefully, sports. "