"It's what you see, there's nothing more," he said referring to Pirelli's joint venture with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund to build a tyre manufacturing facility in the Gulf country.

"There isn't going to be anything else," Tronchetti Provera said when asked about a potential entry of PIF in Pirelli's shareholding.

(Reporting by Giulio Piovaccari, writing by Federico Maccioni, editing by Giulia Segreti)