Formula one racing has expanded into countries beyond europe. But it hadn't made much of impact in america until recently. Spien's extension of its broadcasting deal with formula one, with a fifteenfold increase in price, shows the fact that Formula One is gradually expanding in America. The big thing we've seen in the past year is the launch of the miami grand pre which took place a couple of months ago,. It was everything you could imagine a formula on race in m Miami to be. All the right people from instagram were there. We had the biggest domestic American audience for a FORMULA ONE grampre in 20 years. This is exactly what the new owners
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