Formulation 1 has launched its monetary outcomes for the second quarter of 2025, reporting income of greater than $1 billion.
In a press launch issued on Thursday, Liberty Media revealed that the Formulation One Group posted income of $1.34 billion from 1 April to 30 June, marking a 35% improve in comparison with the $988 million it earned throughout the identical interval final yr.
Of that complete, $1.03 billion got here from ‘major F1 income’, which incorporates race promotion charges, media rights, and sponsorship. That determine rose sharply from $739 million in Q2 2024, helped partially by an expanded calendar. F1 hosted 9 races within the April-June window this yr, up from eight in the identical interval final season.
Large funds reported by F1 house owners Liberty Media
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Liberty additionally reported one-off business positive factors from the discharge of Apple’s F1 film, which premiered in main cities together with New York and London earlier than launching globally on the finish of June.
Different income streams grew from $132 million to $194 million, boosted by a number of elements together with the $6 million earned from leasing the Grand Prix Plaza in Las Vegas and stronger efficiency by Quint, Liberty’s ticketing and hospitality subsidiary.
F1’s working earnings earlier than depreciation and amortisation, a key measure of revenue, greater than doubled from $165 million to $369 million year-on-year.
The sequence additionally revealed it distributed $513 million in prize cash to the ten groups on the grid in the course of the quarter, up from $435 million a yr in the past. That brings the full payout to groups up to now in 2025 to $625 million.
F1’s operational prices additionally rose as a result of a number of contributing elements, together with “greater freight prices related to the completely different order of occasions, greater commissions and companion servicing prices linked to underlying income development, greater Paddock Membership prices as a result of elevated attendance, elevated prices to service new sponsors, greater prices of delivering F1 TV to a rising subscriber base, and bills associated to the Grand Prix Plaza in Las Vegas, which launched new activations and different occasions within the second quarter.”
Liberty Media additionally confirmed it accomplished its acquisition of MotoGP on 3 July, following a prolonged battle to safe regulatory approval.
MotoGP will now sit below the Formulation One Group inside Liberty’s portfolio, however its income will solely be mirrored within the firm’s accounts from Q3.
