MARCH 7, 2002
CART has to buy TV coverage
CART has issued its financial forecasts for the forthcoming year and has revealed that it will be spending $9.9m in 2002 in "production cost and time-buy expenses" as part of its agreement with Fox/Speed Channel and CBS.
The figures reflect the difference in scale between CART and F1, which is expecting TV revenues of around $400m in 2002 and the difficulty for any racing series to get on to TV in the United States if there is not a big audience for the sport.