Los Angeles – The Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear and P-UNO Motorsports TV today announced the SPEED Channel Latin America broadcast schedule for the 2009 races.  SPEED Latin America will begin broadcasting races at 1-hour shows every Wednesday, beginning November 11.  Two different races will air each Wednesday, with a repeat broadcast 3-4 days later. The final two events, the Grand Prix du Trois Rivieres from Quebec and the season finale from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, will air on Dec. 9, with a repetition on Dec. 13.  Over the course of a month, SPEED Latin America will air 24 Star Mazda Championship broadcasts in more than 40 countries.  Races will air with Spanish-language voice-over commentary, SPEED will provide commentary in Portuguese for the Brazilian market and there will be a SAP version in English as well.

Seven of the Star Mazda Championship's 13 races from the 2009 season are part of the package, including the season-opener at the 12 Hours of Sebring, Round 2 at Virginia International Raceway and Rounds 4 and 5 from the Mazda Formula X double-header at New Jersey Motorsports Park.  Also part of the package are Rounds 8 and 9 from the Harrah's Autobahn Grand Prix presented by Mazda double-header at Autobahn and Round 10, the legendary street race in Trois Rivières in Quebec, Canada and the championship-deciding season-finale at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

In total, SPEED Latin America will broadcast the Star Mazda Championship races to more than 40 countries (or territories), including all of the most important racing markets: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela.  In addition, races will be broadcast in Anguilla, Aruba, Antigua, the Bahamas, Barbados, Barbuda, Belize, Bolivia, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadalupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Marten, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and Uruguay.

Los Angeles-based P-UNO Motorsports TV has a 5-year agreement to broadcast the Star Mazda Championship Presented by Goodyear in Latin America.  P-UNO principals are Hector Cademartori, world-renowned motorsports artist and a journalist for 35 years and Pedro Serramalera, a long time racing enthusiast and also a driver in the Star Mazda Championship.

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The main targets of the project are three fold: to promote the series in Latin America, to inform drivers from that part of the world about the Star Mazda Championship and encourage them to further their careers by racing in North America, and to generate exposure for the sponsors of South American drivers in their home markets. 

"It's not all the races, but enough to give our audience south of the border a good idea of what this series is all about," says P-UNO co-founder Pedro Serramalera.  "We've been working very hard for a long time on finalizing these broadcasts and are very pleased to be able to finally announce firm air dates and times.  This is just the first step in our program to expose South American drivers to the Star Mazda Championship, and we expect the audience for the 2010 season broadcasts to be larger and more knowledgeable."