No. The rumor is Vale had a personal problem with Altadis and in his contract he has the right to refuse sponsors based on his person desires. Camel (JTI) just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Vale was supposed to bring a "big" money personal sponsor in but Yamaha wanted to lock up the finances for the season now. So, since Vale likes Yellow (everything) Camel trotted in with around $12-15 mill and made everyone happy. Except for that pesky Atladis thing. As far as the number of teams- DORNA had a master plan to have 5 Factory 3 bike teams. That blew up when cost when up. Now they want 5 factory 2 bike teams with at least 2 or 3 support teams for the Asain big 4. KR, WMC, and Ducati maybe even Kawasaki don't have '06 sponsors locked-up but King Kenny's got something working for the Honda deal he's working on. Other than that, all is "normal" in MotoGP.