The personal fairness big EQT Companions is exploring a proposal to purchase the promoter of the World Rally Championship (WRC) as an public sale valuing the enterprise at near £500m lastly will get off the beginning grid.
Sky Information has learnt that Stockholm-based EQT is amongst quite a few buyout corporations making ready to bid for WRC Promoter, which owns the business rights to the WRC and the European Rally Championship.
Each collection are sanctioned by the FIA, world motorsport’s governing physique.
A sale of the promoter has been on the playing cards since final summer season, when the information company Reuters reported that bankers from JP Morgan had been employed to supervise an public sale.
After 5 rounds of the 2025 WRC collection, the championship standings are headed by British driver Elfyn Evans.
The following race takes place in northern Sardinia, Italy, later this week.
EQT has not been among the many personal fairness trade’s most prolific investor in sports-related property, however in current months it has intensified its curiosity within the sector.
It lately took a stake in Baller League, a six-a-side soccer format which counts Gary Lineker amongst its backers, and was one of many bidders in public sale of the business rights to Germany’s Bundesliga in 2023.
A spokesman for EQT declined to remark.
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