End soap opera Antonio Lobato-DAZN

The start of the Formula 1 World Championship is almost herea championship that in Spain will have the novelty of changing the television operator.

And after several years in the hands of Movistar+, From this year the rights are in the hands of DAZNwith whom it shared the signal until now even though the management and staff in charge of the retransmissions belonged to the telephone company.

That change opened up a debate about Antonio Lobato’s future as the narrator of the races, as there has been speculation that DAZN may be looking for new faces for this inaugural season. Well, it won’t be like that.

According to what was published by ‘El Confidencial Digital’ this Wednesday, the journalist decided to accept the OTT proposal. to continue being the voice of Formula 1 in Spain, ending negotiations that began a few weeks before.

Citing sources familiar with the negotiations, the portal assures that “If you haven’t signed the contract with DAZN, you still need to solve some procedures”, but the predisposition to accept the offer is total.

The future of the rest of the team with Lobato is still up in the air since, Apparently, both Pedro Martínez de la Rosa and Toni Cuquerella rejected the last offer made by the platform.

in parallel, DAZN is working on integrating new faceswhere the streamer may be Cristinini or Victor Abadwhich showed the program ‘F1 Code’.

We remember that DAZN announced on October 30 that it will exclusively broadcast the Formula 1 World Championship in Spain until 2026 after acquiring the rights to the world’s leading motorsport competition.

however, At the end of December, DAZN and Movistar Plus+ announced the continuation of their alliancesharing the distribution of certain sports content, including F1 and the MotoGP World Championship.