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...“It’s damaging the sport . . . This is damaging on a human level,” Ben Sulayem told the Financial Times....
...Last year he masterminded the most dominant performance in the sport’s history. Max Verstappen won 19 of the season’s 22 races; his teammate Sergio Pérez another two....
...The allegations have rocked the racing team and the wider sport, overshadowing the start of the new F1 season and drawing scrutiny to Horner and the team’s leadership....
...Investment has poured into Formula One in recent years as the sport has grown. Forbes estimates that the Red Bull F1 team is worth $2.6bn....
...Here’s how it worked: Signa Development, one of three companies that oversaw the group’s investments, lent €125mn to Laura Finance Holding GmbH and another €190mn to Laura Holding GmbH, as part of large...
...What a great man,” said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner on Sky Sports. “What he achieved and what he’s done for so many people around the world across different sports is second to none.”...
...Red Bull uses engines provided by Honda, although the Japanese provider announced its departure from the sport in 2020....
...A gun industry group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, sued to strike down the law. It lost in court, but Mark Oliva, the group’s public affairs director, said it plans to appeal....
...“In Germany, we are not very open-minded to new things . . . not only in sport, also in other areas of life,” he says....
...On Wednesday, VW brand Porsche, which was the biggest earner for the group in 2020, said it would start manufacturing sports cars again at its Stuttgart and Leipzig plants, starting next week....
...He set up his own engineering practice in 1983, Tilke GmbH, using his kitchen as his office and worked on projects unrelated to F1....
...Homeserve raised to “buy” at Citigroup; Homeserve rated “buy” at Berenberg; Imperial Brands rated “outperform” and Swedish Match rated “market perform” at Bernstein; Intu cut to “neutral” at Citigroup; JD Sports...
...Surveying a global audience of sports fans, it found that two-thirds had some interest in F1, giving a potential audience of 500m....
...GmbH is a label to watch closely....
...The move comes just over two years after Hudson’s Bay beat out the Austrian real estate and retail group, which owns Germany’s Karstadt Sports, in the race to acquire Kaufhof....
...Analysts say the rise of winter sports is part of a trend towards niche sports in China as consumers attempt to stand out from the crowd....
...Red Bull has long sought to boost its profile by sponsoring sports and stunts....
...“My concern is the full and final settling of the Eurofighter purchase, which has been subject to corruption allegation for 15 years,” said Hans Peter Doskozil, Federal Minister of Defence and Sports....
...Sports Direct says its auditors have examined the deal and concluded it did not need to be disclosed as a related party transaction....
...But its move into the nautical sphere opens a new avenue for sales at a time when demand for super-luxury sports cars is waning....
...Drivers’ careers in the sport are getting longer and openings for emerging talent are few. There are just three rookies in F1 this year....
...Pubs showing sport have been very busy, but pubs selling food have been a bit quieter. We will lose a few of the armchair fans but we will make it back on food.”...
...Tata Communications signed a multiyear deal with the sport’s commercial rights holder for an undisclosed fee in 2012....
...He is not blind to the sport’s shortcomings though....
...Teams with the longest history in the sport and the highest finishes up the grid receive the most money from the pot collected by the sport’s commercial rights holder....
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