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Is F1 pay-TV the best option for the future?
Formula 1 needs to adapt to the changing shape of the world and media warns Alex Wurz, who on the same day as the release of the GPDA's controversial open letter on the state of the sport also spoke to the Kurier. Also late on Wednesday, Bernie Ecclestone announced that pay channel Sky will be given exclusive television rights to formula one in Britain from 2019. That sort of trend is worrying Wurz, a former F1 driver and now president of the drivers' union, 'F1 has pursued a rigorous business model in the past two years to switch from public to pay television in some countries.' 'Despite good financial results, the viewing figures have dropped,' Wurz argued. 'But in countries where the...
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