The owner of motor racing giant Formula One is racing to capture the American sports audience. Thanks, in part, to efforts like the Netflix series Drive to Survive, it has caught the attention of many new fans. But FT sports business reporter Samuel Agini examines whether this league’s push into the US will stick — and keep growing.

Clips from Netflix, Formula 1, KVVU

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For further reading:

Formula One’s growing pains

Beauty mogul Charlotte Tilbury wants to give F1 a makeover

The Business of Formula One

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This week, we’re revisiting an episode from earlier this year. BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink has been on the hunt for the money manager’s next “transformational” deal. In January, Fink revealed that he had finally found it with the acquisition of a private capital firm, Global Infrastructure Partners. The FT’s US financial editor Brooke Masters and US private capital correspondent Antoine Gara explain why BlackRock wanted GIP, and how this deal sets the agenda for Wall Street this year. Clips from CNBC

Plus, send us a question! Behind the Money is teaming up with the FT’s Moral Money newsletter to answer your questions about what “responsible” business and finance really looks like in the 21st century.

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Infrastructure: from investment backwater to a $1tn asset class

How the $12.5bn BlackRock-GIP deal is set to shake up investment management

How Adebayo Ogunlesi’s contrarian bet led to $12.5bn BlackRock tie-up

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Exxon Mobil struck black gold in 2015 when it discovered a massive oil reserve off the coast of Guyana in South America. It’s poised to make Guyana the fourth-largest offshore oil developer in the world, and it's already jump-started a transformation within the developing economy. But will this oil bonanza benefit Guyana’s people? The FT’s US energy editor Jamie Smyth travels to Guyana’s capital to understand Exxon’s impact first-hand.

Clip from NBC News

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For further reading:

The giant Exxon project that could create the world’s last petrostate

Oil-rich Guyana tries to tap another source of cash: carbon credits

Exxon’s exit marks reversal of fortune for Equatorial Guinea

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