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Record audience for Canal+ during the F1 Chinese Grand Prix
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This is good news for motorsport: the French interest in Formula 1 does not decrease, quite the contrary! Canal + is recording record audiences at the start of the 2025 season, proof that fans are ready for a season announced in winter as one of the most exciting in history.
The first weekend in Australia had already been a resounding success for the encrypted channel, which had amassed 1,1 million viewers for both live and free-to-air broadcasts. These impressive statistics for a race held at 5 a.m. French time constitute a record for an Australian GP on Canal+.
🚩Historic audiences for the #F1 with, again, 1M viewers on @canalplus
📌 Historic record for a Grand Prix in the morning on CANAL+ (off-air) pic.twitter.com/ntN8m6L0UG— CANAL+ group (@canalplusgroupe) March 24, 2025
A week later, the encrypted channel did even better with the Chinese Grand Prix, which was watched live by a million viewers. This was also an unprecedented figure for a morning Grand Prix.
The Grand Prix, commentated by Julien Fébreau and Adrien Tambay, was won by Oscar piastri, before Lando Norris and George Russell. Canal+ teams will be in Texas this weekend to cover the Grand Prix of the Americas MotoGP, also available on our website. The encrypted channel will return to the Formula 1 paddock in two weeks for the Japanese Grand Prix.
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MotoGP – Grand Prix of the Americas
TV program
Friday 28 March
16:35 p.m. – Free Practice 1: Canal+ Sport 360
20:50 p.m. – Tests: Canal+ Sport 360
Saturday March, 29
16:00 p.m. – Free Practice 2: Canal+ Sport 360
16:45 p.m. – Qualifications: Canal+ Sport 360
20:55 p.m. – Sprint: Canal+ Sport 360
Sunday 30 March
20:55 p.m. – Grand Prix: Canal+ Sport 360
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Checkered flag
24/03/2025 at 04:43 a.m.
What free-to-air broadcast? It was a poor one-hour summary! The worst thing is that they're going to tell us that they broadcast a free-to-air GP for non-subscribers when it's not true. Canal takes us for fools. I hope they lose the rights.