Audiovisual transmition rights

The F1 has audiovisual rights that are acquired by medias of different countries to transmit the races of the World Championships.

According to the hearings, Formula 1 has clearly become an alternative about sports, it is only behind soccer and the Olympics.

The F1 began to be popular in Spain since Telecinco acquired the rights of retransmission, a strong marketing was made to become F1 what it is today, and it is also linked to the success of the Spanish pilot Fernando Alonso that has become one of the most rated events for medias and the Spanish audience.

The audience record of a Grand Prix in Spain has the Brazilian GP of 2006, with approximately 8.62 million viewers, and the start of a championship Grand Prix most watched was Bahrain GP of 2010, with 6.797 million viewers.