Grand Slam Track™ is the premier global professional track league, featuring head-to-head matchups between the fastest stars in the sport. Every detail has been designed to unlock the sport’s full potential of storytelling, personalities, and gamification for broadcast and commercial partners and most importantly, for track stars and fans.
Amongst increased prize money, contracted racers, and many other innovations designed to elevate the profile of track racing, only one race will take place at a time at each Slam. The Slams will be broadcast live on linear TV and streaming, and across licensed sportsbooks. Together these initiatives are expected to create unprecedented fan affinity and attention for the racers and rivalries.
Stats Perform is a trusted partner to many of the world’s highest profile professional men’s and women’s sports organisations, with a deep expertise in collecting, creating and distributing trusted, premium sports data, AI technology, news and video content to maximise fan and bettor engagement, as well as supplying integrity services across the world of professional sport.
“We're delighted to partner with a world leader like Stats Perform to help us bring track to more fans across the globe,” said Michael Johnson, Commissioner of Grand Slam Track™.
“We look forward to setting a new standard for our sport with Stats Perform's extensive network of trusted media and betting partners, eye-opening technology, and their true passion for the power of sport to unify and entertain. After helping leagues like the Premier League, WTA, La Liga and more build their audiences, we're excited for them to do the same with Grand Slam Track,” he added.
“This partnership with Stats Perform is important for Grand Slam Track and the entire sport for a few reasons,” said Steve Gera, President of Grand Slam Track. “In addition to co-investing into the development of data and betting infrastructure for the sport, Stats Perform is also ensuring that all of our athletes, partners, and stakeholders enter this space with the highest level of knowledge, education, and integrity. They will be an important asset to the large investment our league is making into this sport.”
“MJ and the Grand Slam Track™ team have created something with astonishing entertainment and commercial potential for men’s and women’s track athletics, built upon his decades of unique experience on all sides of the spectrum, as a racer, as a media professional and as an entrepreneur,” explained Carl Mergele, Chief Executive Officer at Stats Perform.
“Everyone at Stats Perform is honoured to have been selected as Grand Slam Track™’s exclusive data and betting streaming rights provider. We are excited to help them realise their vision of lifting the stories and personalities of track racing to their rightful positions in the hearts and minds of fans and bettors globally,” he said.
Grand Slam Track™ will host four Slams taking place this year between April and June in Kingston, Jamaica, Miami at Miramar, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. 96 contracted men’s and women’s star athletes will race over three action-packed hours, across 12 event groups for three consecutive nights. All four Grand Slam Track events will be streamed live in the U.S. on Peacock, including exclusive coverage of Slam Fridays, with the CW Network providing broadcast coverage of Slam Saturdays and Sundays. International broadcast information will be announced soon. Tickets for all four Slams are on sale now. For more information, please visit https://grandslamtrack.com/events
Each ‘made-for-live’ Slam will feature unprecedented rivalry, head-to-head competition and storytelling from the best performers and biggest personalities in track racing, including Gabby Thomas, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Josh Kerr, Cole Hocker, Quincy Hall, Kenny Bednarek, Masai Russell, and many more.
For further information, please follow @GrandSlamTrack on all social media platforms, and visit grandslamtrack.com.
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