Submitted on Thursday 24th March 2016
Rejected on Thursday 7th April 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legislate to prevent live Formula 1 (F1) racing becoming exclusive to Sky Sports
Sky Sports have just signed an exclusive deal for the TV rights. Now free-to-air TV can show only the British GP live, and only highlights of all other races. In Germany where this happened a few years ago, German Grand Prix attendance figures dropped so much the race there was cancelled.
Great Britain has a massively disproportionate influence on the sport, with around half the teams based here, and all using British made parts, engineers and drivers - who are the second best performing nationality after the Germans.
Taking F1 off free-to-air TV will inevitably lose future generations of engineers, drivers, and support staff; as children don't grow up being able to watch it and be inspired. It may also result in there being no British race and the PR that brings the country.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125622
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