BBC to show F1 practice live
An early schedule for BBC’s F1 coverage posted by Francois shows they will be broadcasting F1 practice sessions live this year.
However it is not yet clear whether the practice session on Saturday will be shown as well as the two on Friday. Last year ITV screened Friday practice live online, but not Saturday’s session before qualifying.
BBC will show practice via the ‘red button’, accessible on digital broadcasts. The schedule also suggests practices may be shown some other way. Here’s what we’ve seen of the schedule:
MELBOURNE – AUSTRALIA
Friday 27 March
Practice: TBC, Red Button and BBC Sport websiteSaturday 28th March
Qualifying: 0500-0715, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/online
Re-run: 1300-1415, BBC OneSunday 29th March
Race: 0600-0900, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/online
Interactive Forum: 0900-1000, BBC Red Button/online
Race re-run: 1300-1500, BBC One/BBC Red Button/online
Highlights: 1900-2000, BBC Three/BBC Red Button/onlineSEPANG – MALAYSIA
Friday 3 April
Practice: TBC, Red Button and BBC Sport websiteSaturday 4 April
Qualifying: 0900-1130, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/onlineSunday 5 April
Race: 0900-1200, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/online
Interactive Forum: 1200-1300, BBC Red Button/online
Highlights: 1900-2000, BBC Three/BBC Red Button/onlineCHINA
Friday 17 April
Practice: TBC, Red Button and BBC Sport websiteSaturday 18 April
Qualifying: 0600-0815, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/online
Re-run: 1300-1415, BBC OneSunday 19 April
Race: 0700-1000, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/online
Interactive Forum: 1000-1100, BBC Red Button/online
Race re-run: 1230-1430, BBC One/BBC Red Button/online
Highlights: 1900-2000, BBC Three/BBC Red Button/onlineBAHRAIN
Friday 24 April
Practice: TBC, Red Button and BBC Sport websiteSaturday 25 April
Qualifying: 1100-1315, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/onlineSunday 26 April
Race: 1200-1500, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/online
Interactive Forum: 1500-1600, BBC Red Button/online
Highlights: 1900-2000, BBC Three/BBC Red Button/onlineBARCELONA – SPAIN
Friday 8 May
Practice: TBC, Red Button and BBC Sport websiteSaturday 9 May
Qualifying: 1210-1415, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/onlineSunday 10 May
Race: 1210-1500, BBC One/BBC Red Button/Radio 5 Live/online
Interactive Forum: 1500-1600, BBC Red Button/online
Highlights: 1900-2000, BBC Three/BBC Red Button/online
More on BBC F1
Limo said on 25th March 2009, 16:40
Where can I watch F1 online?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 25th March 2009, 19:59
See here: Watching, listening to and following F1 live online
Limo said on 26th March 2009, 17:31
Thank you!!!!!!!!
Armsoft said on 26th March 2009, 22:13
Freeview 302 looks to be the likely spot for the Free Practice Sessions.
The BBC website shows the action that is currently on 301 (Sue Barker) will continue through to 08:00 tomorrow morning, so that just leaves 302 availble.
I hope I have read this right as I`m recording to watch when I get up.
Here`s Hopeing!
Skippy said on 8th February 2010, 12:21
Can anyone please tell me how I can find out when and where F1 practice events are going to be held. I live in Spain (Alicante) and this weekend I went to Cheste Circuit (Valencia) to see a friend only to find out that last week there was the F1 preseason practice. If only I had known….. I’ve looked at F1.com but it’s always news after the event. Sure, it’s listed in Cheste’s event calendar but I can’t go looking in the webpage of every single European circuit looking for preseason practice dates of F1/DTM/MotoGP. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks.