FOX Sports Racing

Fox Sports Racing is a motorsports-oriented cable network owned by the Fox Sports Media Group division of Fox Corporation. The network launched on August 17, 2013 as a replacement of the former cable network Speed for North American markets outside the United States, including Canada and the Caribbean. The network primarily simulcasts racing events from Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, which would be otherwise unavailable to these international markets, with the remainder of its schedule filled with reruns of these events and Speed’s previous reality series.[1] The network retained the previous Speed branding until February 20, 2015. Prior to its replacement with the general sports network Fox Sports 1, the motorsports-oriented network Speed was also carried outside the United States, particularly in Canada. Shortly after its launch as Speedvision, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) added the network to its list of foreign cable networks approved for carriage on Canadian cable and satellite providers in 1997.[2] Prior to August 2013, Canadian viewers saw a largely identical schedule as the U.S. channel, although some programming, particularly live Formula 1 events, were blacked out to protect TSN, which holds domestic broadcast rights to F1 events (under CRTC rules, foreign services must own Canadian broadcast rights to the content they air).[3] However, this point became moot when Speed eventually lost F1 rights to NBC Sports for the 2013 season,[4] as NBCSN is not carried in Canada.