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Touchpoint Group Holdings Announces Successful Completion of Air Race Training Camp Event
Touchpoint Group Holdings Announces Successful Completion of Air Race Training Camp Event.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Marks important step in preparation for the start of 2022 season First event since 2019 scheduled to be held in May 2022 MIAMI, Nov. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Touchpoint Group Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: TGHI), a media and digital technology holding company, today announced that its AIR RACE subsidiary successfully held a training camp for its latest intake of AIR RACE World Championship competitors at its airfield base in Sywell, UK. The five day training camp, which featured both simulated and actual AIR RACE components, was held with special aviation authority clearance to permit low level operations. AIR RACE World Championship is a race format originally developed by Red Bull as the Red Bull Air Race. It was founded in 2003 and has hosted 94 championship series races around the globe. It has attracted viewers in 187 countries and has been broadcast to an audience of over 230 million viewers with over 2.3 billion media impressions worldwide in its most recent season. It is the largest live spectator sports event in the world attracting over 1 million spectators to a single air race on multiple occasions in cities such as Porto and Barcelona. Touchpoint plans to utilize its expertise in audience engagement through its application development to enhance the audience’s experience, while at the same time creating new revenue generating verticals for the races including festivilization and gaming. AIR RACE World Championship will build on the significant legacy that the Red Bull Air Race leaves behind, and is well positioned to deliver one of the world’s most thrilling and pioneering global sporting events – focused on future tech, innovation, clean energy and spectator experience. A video overview is available here. The season opener is scheduled to take place in May 2022 and there are 7 races scheduled to take place through the the 2022 season at iconic locations in Egypt, Greece, Portugal, United Kingdom, Russia, Indonesia and the Middle East. Twelve Elite Race Teams have already signed-up for the 2022, 2023 and 2024 race seasons, with twelve further challenger pilots competing in the new second tier Aero Series – including some of the latest and greatest graduates of the Air Race Academy. Red Bull maintains its interest in the World Championship Series with continued sponsorship of former World Champi...