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Eleven Sports will spend a record sum in its new four-year deal for F1 rights in Poland when it takes over from Viaplay next season, seeking to attract subscribers and fend off rivals.
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Liberty Media has unveiled plans to spin off various assets, excluding Formula 1, into a separate publicly traded company, called Liberty Live, and revealed the impending exit of group CEO Greg Maffei
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The International Automobile Federation (FIA) has launched a tender process to replace Rallycross Promoter as the World Rallycross Championship (World RX) promoter.
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Media

Eleven Sports is continuing to profit from Viaplay's planned exit from Poland, after regaining rights in the country to Formula 1 motor racing.
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Australia’s Supercars motorsport series will introduce a Finals Series in 2025 as it looks to ramp up interest ahead of the expiration of its rights deals with Foxtel and Seven.
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Extreme E (XE), the electric off-road racing series, has scrapped the remaining races on the 2024 calendar, including a planned debut in the United States, and is evaluating how best to complete its final…
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Finance & Law

Owners KW25 and Red Bull are said to be targeting a valuation of up to €500m for the WRC's commercial rights-holder.
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Extreme E's media strategy to date has been maximising exposure for sponsors and to build a fanbase, though this has not led to it purchasing coverage through time-buy agreements.
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Finance & Law

Formula E has spent £110,000 (€130,700/$142,300) to acquire the intellectual property rights to W Series, the all-female racing championship that collapsed into administration last year.
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Finance & Law

Formula E, the electric single-seater racing series, has revealed a loss of €42.4m for the financial year ending September 30, 2023, closing the gap on the previous year's €65m shortfall.
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Streaming platform FanCode acquired rights to Formula 1 in India for 2024 and 2025 after the motorsport series reduced its asking price, having gone exclusively direct-to-consumer last year.
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Toyota’s successful return to rallying in 2017 has transformed the World Rally Championship’s fortunes in Japan, leading to a new event in the country and a significant increase in media rights revenue over the past eight years.
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Media

The IMSA SportsCar Championship will increase its coverage on network television in the United States from 12 to 17 hours next year in a new multi-year deal with NBC
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DAZN secured Formula 1 rights in Portugal three years after Eleven Sports, which it now owns, had relinquished the rights in the face of fee escalation.
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IndyCar's new domestic media rights deal with Fox will ensure the open-wheel racing series remains on free-to-air television in the US, with every race set to air on Fox's national network
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SportBusiness Media takes a deep dive into the numbers driving the commercial success of Formula 1.
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Liberty Global has taken a controlling stake in Formula E, after acquiring shares in the electric motor racing series held by media company Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD)
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F1 won big as the national popularity of Max Verstappen and the subscriber numbers he helps bring to the pay-television market in the Netherlands sent Viaplay and VodafoneZiggo into a fierce nose-to-nose battle for the rights.