MotoGP: CANAL+ secure French broadcasting rights

CANAL+ is set to put its new alliance with the FIM MotoGP World Championship into gear having acquired all broadcasting rights for MotoGP for multiple seasons, with all three categories being broadcast on the CANAL+ channels and services.

Two Grands Prix will also be co-broadcast live each season by C8, CANAL+ Group’s free-to-air channel. The French Grand Prix, a national event attracting more than 200,000 spectators annually at the legendary Le Mans circuit, will be one of the key live rounds co-broadcast by CANAL+.

The FIM MotoGP™ World Championship is the pinnacle of motorcycle racing with its premier class – MotoGP™ – boasting celebrated talents like Italians Valentino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso and Spaniards Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo. 2019 will see two French stars line up on the MotoGP™ starting grid alongside the greats: Johann Zarco, the leading Frenchman on a KTM, and Fabio Quartararo, a promising rookie at the SIC Petronas Yamaha Team.

With two French riders exciting home crowds next year, the FIM MotoGP™ World Championship is set to benefit in France from the partnership with CANAL+ with its professionalism and experience in motorsport broadcasting. This agreement confirms the dynamic variety of CANAL+’s motorsport offering, with the media already broadcasting the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, Formula 2 and GP3, as well as the IndyCar Series, Formula E and the French Rally Championship.