The Inside F1 organization was created in 1994 to build up interest in Formula 1 in the United States of America. "We look forward to working with the F1 teams and authorities to give the sport a much stronger presence on the Internet." We now own the Internet rights to one of them. When people think of Formula 1 racing they think of two phrases: "Formula 1" and "Grand Prix". "We have always aimed to be THE website for Formula 1 racing fans around the world and we believe that the purchase of is a great step forward for the business. "At a time when many of the websites relating to Formula 1 are struggling to survive we are delighted to be expanding," says Mark Karp of Inside F1 Inc. The existing website will now be renamed. We look forward to continuing the relationship with Formula 1 and working together to build the sport in America.THE Inside F1 organization is pleased to announce the acquisition of the domain name on the World Wide Web. This provides us with a unique opportunity to serve Hispanic Formula 1 fans across ESPN platforms in English and Spanish. We’re also delighted to add Spanish-language rights to this new deal. That faith has been rewarded many times over, and we greatly appreciate how fans have responded in record numbers. “When we brought Formula 1 back to ESPN two years ago, we had faith that Formula 1 fans in the United States would support the coverage. The combination of their dedicated coverage and Formula 1’s amazing racing spectacle is a perfect partnership for us to build on our recent success with US audiences.”īurke Magnus, ESPN executive Vice President, Programming and Scheduling, said:
The US is one of our key focuses for growth and ESPN know and understand the US sports audience like no one else. “Our partnership with ESPN has delivered a 19 percent increase in viewership across the US and we are delighted to extend our partnership through to 2022. Sean Bratches, Managing Director, Commercial Operations at Formula 1, said: In addition to the telecasts, ESPN’s coverage of Formula 1 also includes the dedicated Formula 1 website, which reports on the championship year-round. F1 races also aired on ESPN from 1984-1997. When it began in 2018, the relationship marked the return of Formula 1 to its original US television home - the first race ever aired in the country was on ABC in 1962. Spanish-language coverage of F1 will be made available to fans on ESPN Deportes television network and streaming on the ESPN App. The FIA Formula 2 Championship and the FIA Formula 3 Championship, as well as the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup series, will also continue to be broadcast across the network.Īs an additional element of the new deal, ESPN Deportes will serve as the exclusive Spanish language home for all Formula 1 races in the US starting in 2020. ESPN also will continue to air the races commercial-free and will again partner with Sky Sports and Formula 1 to bring Sky Sports’ award-winning presentation of Formula 1 racing to American viewers. The new deal will see all F1 races continue to air live on either ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC and all practice sessions, qualifying and races will air live and in replay across ESPN platforms, including on-demand replays on the ESPN App. In addition, the demographic of persons aged 18-34 has grown 81 percent from 2018 and is up 87 percent from 2017. All but three of the 18 races this season have seen year-over-year viewership increases on ESPN networks.
Through 18 races this season, Formula 1 is averaging 671,000 viewers on ESPN networks, an increase of 19 percent over the average of 561,000 at this point last year on ESPN networks and up 24 percent from the average of 542,000 on NBC networks in 2017. This comes off the back of double-digit television viewership growth in the United States over the past two seasons since coverage returned to ESPN in 2018. Formula 1 is pleased to announce that its successful partnership with broadcaster ESPN in the USA will continue until 2022, season included.
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