BARCELONA, Spain, September 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- The New Motor Racing Championship That Features Branding From the 
World's Leading Football Clubs has Commenced a Final Round of Financing.

Superleague Formula will debut in August next year with an initial series
of six races staged in Europe.

Leading international football clubs AC Milan, PSV Eindhoven, FC Porto,
Olympiacos, Borussia Dortmund, RSC Anderlecht and Flamengo have already
licensed their brand to the Barcelona-based organisers. Planning is already
underway to launch a further five clubs in the next two months.

The championship will feature at least 20 leading clubs in the new series
that will utilise 750 horsepower, V-12 powered single seater racing cars
built by US manufacturer, Elan Motorsports Technologies. The new engine has
been purpose-built for the championship by UK manufacturer, Menard
Competition Technologies.

Following the completion of the most recent round of investment, Elan and
Menard have now commenced production of the cars and engines that will run
for the first time in February next year.

New investors in the championship include Spanish Venture Capital company
Clave Mayor as well as additional private investors from the Asian region.

The new group of investors join a group of entrepreneurs and prominent
business men, amongst who are Alex Andreu, the CEO of the Championship, who
has years of experience in Sports Marketing, including the Olympic Games in
Barcelona, the Rodés Family (who own various Communication companies), the
Suqué Family (Perelada Cava and Casinos de Catalunya, the financial group
Riva y García, Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs (GBS Finanzas), Invest
Formula Valencia (a group of investors from Valencia led by the lawyer Manuel
Broseta Dupré) and Plácido Arango (owner of VIPS and the Starbucks franchise
in Spain).

"We are delighted to welcome our new investors to Superleague Formula and
thrilled they share our vision on capitalising on the passion of football
merged with the excitement of leading international motorsport," Sup league
Formula CEO and President, Mr Alex Andreu said.

"The money raised is being spent on the production of the cars and
execution of the operational plan for delivery of the championship.

"We are now in the final phase of fund raising that will be closed by the
end of November.

"Interest in the Superleague Formula concept has been extremely strong by
investors, football clubs, motor racing teams, circuits, television networks
and the media.

"The initial response from our recent club launches has shown outstanding
enthusiasm for the concept from football fans."

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