Viasat (current F1 rights holder) has extended it's deal with FOM and will show F1 on there new channel Viasat Motor three more years. Janne and Eje will also be joind from next year (or late this year?) by Stefan Johansson.
The new channel will also show MotoGP!
http://www.viasatsport.se/content/view/12824/37/

Sorry, missed this part of the pressrelease


(quick translation, they have the rights to show all F1 races from 1983 to today!)

That's great news!

(Speciellt kul att de har så stort arkiv, då kan man se alla de lopp som SVT inte visade på 80-talet!)

I would rather call it a disaster, I have no access to Viasat where I live. (The house is all Canal Digital). TV6 through DVB-T worked fine for me. Viasat Sport 1 will be available whenever the new MPEG-4 extension is done but not this one (Sport 3).

Hopefully it will be a part of ViasatOnDemand, but most likely not.

Disaster struck early, they couldn't even keep it unchanged until the start of next season

Agree with cadwal. They could have left it until next season. I have ordered the new channels but it will be marginal if I get it until next race in a week. But sure, it's good that they increase coverage including friday practise and the archive stuff. Keeping Jan and Eje is very good aswell.

The ambitions seems good with old races and free practice, MotoGp, GP2 etc.

What annoys me is the 2 weeks notice wich is pretty tight if you need to make arrangements to recieve the the new channels. Also I don't trust this to be a long term deal. Halfway through next season Viasat may decide that not enough people signed up and move F1 somewherer else, probably on equally short notice as now.

Just like the old days then


Mantorp Park '81


Las Vegas '81

Surprise, surprise the final two races are now back on TV6 instead of only on Viasat Motor.

Stefan Good news. At least we can have more sense from a former driver,but they should have ditched janne coz he is an idiot. I hate his commentating should never be on TV

I thought this was going to be about a new race at Anderstorp or the Gotlandring or whatever.