It’s odd that Stan is more interested in Japanese Rugby competition than the World Rugby Sevens Series, which has just started the 2021/22 season.
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Who’s to say they weren’t interested? Maybe this is the rights they could get?
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World Rugby Sevens Series currently does not have an Australian broadcaster, after the deal with Fox Sports ended at the completion of the previous season.
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Stan have always said they don’t want to overpay for sports rights. Guess that’s the case here
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With no Sydney tournament in 2022, I’m guessing there wasn’t a lot of value for Stan for the time being with most of the events in an inconvenient time zone
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Interesting pickups - WEC has been pretty well homeless since Eurosport left. Fox always did late deals for Indycar (and I guess only one year at a time)
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Basically motorsport is now split between Fox Sports and Stan Sport.
It will be interesting to see how Stan and Nine will cover Rally Australia, when it returns to World Rally Championship calendar.
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MOTORSPORT ARRIVES AT STAN SPORT WITH INDYCAR, WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP & WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP COMING IN 2022
Stan Sport has added some of the biggest international motorsport action to its sports offering with multi-year coverage of every round of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, World Rally Championship and the World Endurance Championship
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Exclusive coverage of the INDYCAR SERIES with every race ad-free, live and on demand on Stan Sport
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Exclusive coverage of the FIA World Rally Championship with every round ad-free, live and on demand on Stan Sport
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Exclusive coverage of the World Endurance Championship with every race, ad-free, live and on demand on Stan Sport
Stan Sport today announced an exciting expansion to its sports slate with the addition of world-class Motorsport including multi-year coverage of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES , World Rally Championship (WRC) and the World Endurance Championship (WEC) .
The 2022 INDYCAR SERIES will feature a 17-race schedule which will see its bold and daring drivers compete in a series of temporary street circuits, road courses and ovals across the United States The series will begin on the streets of St. Petersburg (Florida) on February 27 and will be headlined by the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the 106th edition of the Indianapolis 500 , on May 29. Every minute from every race of the 2022 INDYCAR SERIES will be shown exclusively ad-free, live and on demand on Stan Sport.
Featuring in the 2022 INDYCAR SERIES will be two faces familiar to Aussie Motorsport fans, Will Power and Scott McLaughlin . Power, who was the 2014 INDYCAR SERIES champion and in 2015 won his first ever Indianapolis 500, will race for Team Penske and is always in contention on his favoured street courses. Alongside Power at Team Penske is three-time V8 Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin who was awarded INDYCAR SERIES Rookie of the Year last year and will be looking to secure his first-ever race win in 2022. Joining McLaughlin and Power will be a host of former Formula 1 drivers, including Roman Grosjean , Takuma Sato and Sebastian Bourdais .
Former Supercars champion, Scott McLaughlin, said:
“I’m pumped that all my friends, family and the fans in Australia will be able to watch INDYCAR live on Stan Sport in 2022. I learnt a lot in my first year and can’t wait to see how we go in 2022 in what should be an epic year.”2018 Indianapolis 500 winner and 2014 INDYCAR SERIES champion, Will Power, said:
“I’m super excited that Aussie fans can watch INDYCAR at any time, live and on demand in Australia on Stan Sport. 2022 is shaping up to be a great season with an exciting schedule.”The FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) is the world’s highest level of rally competition and pits drivers, co-drivers and production-based cars against some of the most brutally tough and unforgiving terrain on the planet. Consisting of thirteen events, run over three or four days, the WRC season will kick off with the iconic Rallye Monte-Carlo on January 20 and will move on to a range of challenging surfaces featuring gravel, asphalt, snow and ice and unique environments around the world.
Also coming to Stan Sport in 2022 is the FIA World Endurance Championship consisting of four different classes of vehicles competing in seven epic races varying between six and 24 hours in length. Kicking off the series in 2022 will be the opening event in Sebring, Florida, on March 12 - 13 with the series concluding on November 12 with the 8 Hours of Bahrain. The 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship series will be headlined by its flagship event, the 24 Hours of Le Mans ( June 11 ), with the series also visiting popular and iconic tracks such as Spa , Monza and Fuji .
Stan Acting Chief Executive Officer Martin Kugeler said:
“This announcement signifies an exciting new chapter as Motorsport joins the slate of content on Stan Sport. We are very excited to be hosting some of the most iconic races in the world from INDYCAR, World Rally Championship and World Endurance Championship. We know that Australian Motorsport fans are some of the most passionate and we are excited to bring that passion to life by delivering world-class, ad-free coverage all year round.”
Stan Sport’s Motorsport coverage begins on Thursday 20 January with the opening WRC event in Monte-Carlo - streaming live, ad-free and on-demand.
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The WEC was previously on Eurosport
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Both WRC and WEC have their own streaming services as well. Will be interesting to see if either of those services would be affected in terms of availability in Australia after these new deals.
Do wonder if that points to them having a shot at F1 rights whenever they come up…
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The whole season of WRC is shown on Redbull TV. Also, I’m pretty sure WEC races were on Bein sports.
Was it? I had to subscribe to WEC TV (which was just above garbage) to watch Le Mans
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F1 locked up with Fox Sports
Yep. Le mans used to be shown across Bein and fox sports. I’m don’t think it was on last year.
While there’s been a couple of media reports indicating that F1 is staying with Fox next year (correction: 2023), having narrowly beaten Stan, nothing has officially been confirmed yet either from Formula One Management or Fox Sports.
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Next year was the final year of the fox deal. We have seen nothing official aside from a few media reports for 2023 and beyond. Fox have never given a press release of a deal extension. They only did that for MotoGP
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Yes, that’s correct, apologies, I’m getting ahead of myself by a whole year!
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Correct and a person I know at fox has confirmed he has no knowledge of an extension.
I seriously believe the article that said it is wrong and meant MotoGP and not F1.
The waiting game continues to find out.
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Yep and nothing from News (Fox) owned papers.
Only smh/theage and AFR have reported on the deal.
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