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Originally Posted by Big Red
Sky have the rights to Nascar in the US and did so before ESPN joined the UK market - So they were unable to offer this to us UK fans.
ESPN own the NASCAR rights in US and also plan to release NASCAR via HD. - if you watch NASCAR on Sky sports you will see that its covered by ESPN
and in some cases FOX and sometimes by ABC which comes under the same ownership as ESPN.
Remember this is ESPN first year.
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Sky dont own the rights to NASCAR here in the UK the deal ran uot with the daytona 500 this year. some little nobody picked up the UK rights to air on public access because ESPN were either too slow or not willing to pay for it.
as for Indycar sure Sky have the deal for that but Five had the highlight rights packaget oboth NASCAR and Indycar but it ran out last year and so far nobody has picked up either. if ESPN were the company you say then they would snap up a highlight package for both but they clearly are only bothered about football here in the UK.