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- The passion of football joins the excitement of motorsport
- Champion football clubs already confirmed
- V12-powered 200mph single-seater championship
- Kick off in 2008
- Major off-track entertainment package
- Championship partners with Havas Media Group for TV and Sponsorship initiatives, Imagination for branding and sponsorship activation and TBWA (Omnicom Group) for advertising
Today heralds the launch of a major new initiative that brings together two of the world s most popular sports: football and motor racing.
Superleague Formula is a motorsport series for high-performance single-seaters bearing the colours of leading football teams from all over the world. The first race will take place in the summer of 2008. Leading international clubs from Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Greece – AC Milan, PSV Eindhoven, FC Porto and Olympiacos have already entered the Superleague Formula championship.
Series organisers are also negotiating with FC Barcelona, Valencia and Real Madrid (Spain); Inter Milan (Italy); Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique de Marseille (France); Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 (Germany); Basel (Switzerland); Galatasaray (Turkey); Anderlecht (Belgium); Goteborg (Sweden); Moscow Lokomotiv (Russia); Boca Juniors (Argentina); Flamengo (Brazil); Club America (Mexico); Shanghai Shenua (China); and Samsung Bluewings (Korea) to take their place on the grid.
