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Greenlight International secure Worldwide Distribution to Drag Racing Series

by isleofman.com 16th February 2016
Local sports TV distributor Greenlight International, has entered into a multi year exclusive agreement with the NHRA to become the worldwide media rights distributor (excluding the United States) across all media platforms, including network television, cable, satellite and terrestrial, internet TV, IPTV and mobile for the NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Racing Series.

The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series is the world's number one when it comes to the fastest, loudest and most dramatic form of motorsport on the planet. Nobody does ground-shaking like Top Fuel, and though that's the headline class there are three others - Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Bike. All of them make numbers that defy the imagination as well as the laws of physics:

POWER - A Top Fuel dragster lets rip with more than 7,000 horsepower, making more noise than Iron Maiden in concert, and a pair of them in side by side action register above 2.5 on the Richter scale, officially qualifying each race as a minor earthquake.

SPEED – Top Fuel dragsters are the fastest-accelerating vehicles on earth. Standstill to 100 miles an hour in less than a second, generating 8G at launch, standstill to 320 miles an hour in a bit less than 4 seconds – less time than it took to read this sentence.

NUMBERS – If nothing breaks it costs $1,000 per second to run a Top Fuel car. It destroys all 8 spark plugs each time, burns more than 20 gallons of nitromethane at $50 a gallon, and sucks in air at 3,000 cfm – so fast it freezes the intake and is virtually a solid inside the cylinders.

Greenlight International will be delivering from the Isle of Man all 24 rounds of the championship to the international media markets either ‘as live’ or as 1 hour highlights. Providing compelling coverage of the world’s fastest motorsport to audiences across the world.

Jon Quayle, Managing Director - Greenlight International said that “Greenlight International is very proud to start this relationship with the NHRA and the NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Racing Series. It is without doubt a very significant contract for the company and confirms our ability to work at the very highest levels of the TV Sports Industry.”

Ken Adelson, Vice President Broadcasting, Digital Content & Executive Producer - NHRA, said “We are looking forward to working with Greenlight International to help deliver the series to the world’s sports broadcasters. We want to foster our existing fan base and help develop new fans in new markets and think our dynamic coverage from the 2016 NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Racing Series and beyond will help achieve this aim”

Photo - Antron Brown - current leader of the 2016 NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Racing Series.
Posted by isleofman.com
Tuesday 16th, February 2016 02:11pm.

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