Submitted on Friday 29th July 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Keep Formula One Free to Air
This petition is to keep Formula One (F1) free to air in the UK. Recently BSkyB have signed a deal with the BBC to show all races, qualifying sessions and practice sessions. This seems to be unfair on viewers who enjoy Motorsport but do not want to pay a minimum £487 for the first year.
As this is the UK's most popular Motorsport we feel that it is unfair that other sports such as Rugby League have Group A status but F1 or any other Motorsport does not. F1 has a rich heritage in the UK as the very first race was at Silverstone in 1950.
Furthermore, F1 is the only mainstream sport other than Test Cricket where British sportsmen (Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton) are successfully competing to be champions of the world. Surely for this to still be the case in twenty years time F1 should be free to air in the UK for the sake of Motorsport, the motor industry and British sporting pride.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
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