Here are the details of the BBC’s live video coverage of the Australian Grand Prix and the F1 Fanatic live blogs which will take place during all five sessions this weekend:
Friday 26th March 2010
Australian Grand Prix Free practice 1 – 1.25-3.05am (BBC Red Button and online)
F1 Fanatic live blog will run throughout this session
Australian Grand Prix Free practice 2 – 5.25-7.05am (BBC Red Button and online)
F1 Fanatic live blog will run throughout this session
Saturday 27th March 2010
Australian Grand Prix Free practice 3 – 2.55-4.05am (BBC Red Button and online)
F1 Fanatic live blog will run throughout this session
Australian Grand Prix Qualifying – 5.00-7.30am (BBC1, Red Button and online) (Starts at 6am)
F1 Fanatic live blog will begin around 5.10am and end around half an hour after the chequered flag
Sunday 28th March 2010
Australian Grand Prix – 6.00-9.00am (BBC1, Red Button and online) (Starts at 7.00am)
F1 Fanatic live blog will begin around 6.00am and end around half an hour after the chequered flag
Please share details of the F1 coverage in your area below.
For times of all the 2010 races and practice and qualifying sessions see the F1 Fanatic Google Calendar.
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2010 Australian Grand Prix
Calum
21st March 2010, 15:20
I can’t see myself catching P1 or 3 live somehow! Just a bit too early.
Icthyes
21st March 2010, 17:06
Hey, at least you could watch practice, and that those times you can miss are for practice! I have to be up at similar times to watch the qualifying and the race!
Icthyes
21st March 2010, 17:07
Scratch that, I was mistakenly looking at the times for the Chinese race on the local Canadian broadcaster’s page. But the point stands! Actually, for once the times will be decent for me to watch the Australian race :-)
Icthyes
21st March 2010, 17:12
But that’s only because it appears the broadcast will be delayed…
Triple comment fail.
Mike
22nd March 2010, 2:53
not your day eh? haha ^^
steph
21st March 2010, 15:23
I’ll be up watching every session. Uni all day Friday and a party on Saturday means I’m going to be very grumpy this weekend. Completely worth it though.
Dave
21st March 2010, 15:40
NOTE to UK readers: clocks go FORWARD 1 HOUR on Sunday morning @ 1am. So when you’re getting up on Sunday @ 6am, it’ll seem like 5am…
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
21st March 2010, 16:04
Well said!
rampante
21st March 2010, 20:03
4am for me in Italy.
joko
22nd March 2010, 4:50
It is the other way round, isn’t it?
Race will be 8am european time.
Monkzie
21st March 2010, 21:27
Very, VERY well said!
Spud
21st March 2010, 16:33
Doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
About 4 cups of coffee and I’ll be sorted. :P
LewisC
25th March 2010, 10:59
These are the advantages of a DAB alarm clock. It adjusts itself :)
Enigma
21st March 2010, 15:42
Don’t forget about adjusting the time…it’s on sunday, the daylight saving.
sato113
21st March 2010, 16:01
so it’s like we gotta get up an hour earlier for the race?
Mike
21st March 2010, 16:10
Being an Australian part of me resents the late start…
Scribe
21st March 2010, 16:30
What time is it going to be on in oz?
Personally I’d prefer it if Grand Prixs started later in Britian, 1’oclock isn’t really a conveniant time. I have to dash across London to get back in time.
Mike
21st March 2010, 16:59
5 I’d reckon, not that late, But I did like having the race in the middle of the day, It felt a bit special as it was different from all the other races.
sato113
21st March 2010, 17:02
and that’s usually lunch time too!
BasCB
21st March 2010, 18:33
Do they start at least a little earlier than last year? I found it quite dangerous with the shadows getting longer and darker during the race.
Mike
22nd March 2010, 2:56
Think it’s the same, I do wonder what it will be in the future,
Bernie wants another night race,
but the race politically is already hanging by a thread, A night race would cost way too much, and we would lose the GP altogether,
and if they move it back, our attendance will drop and then again we will lose it.
TommyC
22nd March 2010, 5:38
yeh, tis the same as last year. it was really quite cold for the last 20 minutes of the race. i’ll make sure i’m prepared with a jacket this time. towards the end of the race was quite dark as well, it didn’t take long til it was effectively night. i think a 3pm start would be best (at the track) but obviously that won’t satisfy bernie and his european fans. bit of a shame really.
i’m in canberra and it’s nearly 5pm and the sun is on its way down. if the race was 1 or 2 weeks later, starting at 5pm would be like abu dhabi last year (particularly given that daylight saving ends on the first weekend of april.
Ned Flanders
21st March 2010, 16:16
I can never get my head around the clock changing. Does that mean I get an hour more or less sleep?! I’m so confused… and such an idiot!
I fancy watching the GP live this season, and mabye the qualifying session too, for the first time since 2002 (no chance of me getting up for the practice sessions like some crazy people!). So I won’t be impressed if the race is as boring as Bahrain- but Melbourne usually throws up an eventful race.
James_mc
21st March 2010, 16:31
It always seems like less sleep :-(
Scribe
21st March 2010, 16:32
Hmm, i’ll definatley be up for the race, not the practice though, that is a little on the late side.
Getting about to watch quali depends entirely on what im doing friday night.
Besides, some nice man invented the iplayer for just this reason.
steph
21st March 2010, 17:06
“I can never get my head around the clock changing. Does that mean I get an hour more or less sleep?! I’m so confused… and such an idiot!”
I’m exactly the same. I’m just going to get up an hour early and if it’s wrong then drink a lot of coffee.
Icthyes
21st March 2010, 21:18
Get up an hour early anyway. I find that the first few laps become a blur if I’ve only just woken up, and that’s not because of the speeds of the cars!
colonhell
23rd March 2010, 13:10
Schumacher used to sleep just before races.
Rod
21st March 2010, 16:23
Possibly a stupid question, but does anyobdy have any idea if the and practices will be on iplayer after the initial broadcast, or after any daytime re-runs?
Scribe
21st March 2010, 16:30
Absolutley all telivised, redbutton or not, content is now up on the Iplayer.
geo132
21st March 2010, 16:36
it should be up after a short while, on the same day! i watched all the sessions of the last grand prix on iPlayer on the same day, sometimes even after 1.25 hours from the original (live) broadcast.
i even recall watching the race, with full commentary + post race analysis two hours after the race was over..
nick
21st March 2010, 19:02
if you go on red button they run p1 and p2 back to back right up to the start of p3 normally, so UK folks that work should be able to catch a re run of both Friday night.
I got up last year for all sessions and it killed me, we now have a 9 month old so I need all the sleep I can get. for me its sky+ for everything and just pretend its live.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
22nd March 2010, 0:35
In my experience there’s a bit of a delay before it goes up on iPlayer, usually a few hours.
steph
21st March 2010, 17:16
I’m really looking forward to the live blog this weekend with so many fanatics having to drag themselves out of bed early it’s nice to see just how bonkers we are. The Japanese blogs were some of my favourites even for practice and helped keep me awake.
Also good luck to the mods in advanace! Hope you have plenty of coffee and Red Bull and maybe a lot of sugar…
Tom Hitchings
21st March 2010, 18:04
Keith, you might want to add a note about the clocks changing on Sunday morning…
bwells
21st March 2010, 18:10
The Aussie GP is always a great one for us Canadians.. prime time viewing!! Ned I thought you were a true fan!!.. lol.. I’m up at 3am/5am all year as I can’t miss a session.. ( if I can avoid it).. I just wish the FIA/BBC would realize they have a market across the ocean.. it’s tough trying to find feeds for viewing some practice sessions and the FIA keep shutting them down.. why spend money paying people to watch justintv in order to kill feeds? Spend that money on larger bandwidth, offer the Red Button across the water and you will MAKE money!! am I making any sense here???… lol
Icthyes
22nd March 2010, 0:16
Not since they started adjusting the time for European audiences. The qualifying and race will both start at 2 am Canadian time. TSN are showing both at 8 am Toronto time, but I suspect that’s a delayed transmission. Either that or someone’s posted the wrong information on their website.
Polishboy808
21st March 2010, 18:14
Well for everyone saying it late in the uk, every race (other than brazil & canada) happen at about 2 oclock in the morning for us in the U.S. It sucks that i cant ever whatch a race live besides the two i said before…..
nick
21st March 2010, 19:06
works both ways though … we get IRL and Nascar in the middle of the night once it hits summer and the Saturday night races.
having said that I dropped sky sports this year because I used to sky+ the IRL and it would always take a week to watch so thought I may aswell just watch the mid-week rerun on Five. but no… they dont seem to be doing it this year. Nascar on OpenAccess it is, started watching Bristol earlyer but left it to record so I can enjoy it in chucks all week long:)
George Suddaby
21st March 2010, 20:44
im gonna wake up for practice 2 and quali and race but parents dont want me to wake up for practice 1 & 3 (parents, who needs them :P only joking) i hate school some times but because its the holidays when its the malaysian gp, im gonna watch every bit of action :D
Prisoner Monkeys
21st March 2010, 21:07
Wow, sessions on at three in the morning.
Ah, it’s good to be Australian.
TommyC
22nd March 2010, 5:56
that’s what i’m thinking. at least channel 10 actually broadcasts live now so we can watch most of the races at 10pm rather than the delayed telecast at 3am like they used to.
MPJ1994
22nd March 2010, 5:59
Could not agree more.
Veeeight
21st March 2010, 21:18
Race is at 5 pm here in oz can’t wait to head to albert park on friday!! been a long 12 months
TommyC
22nd March 2010, 5:57
i’m so excited. i really hope it doesn’t rain though. GO WEBBER!
anthony
21st March 2010, 23:49
il be up for it no matter what..hope its going to be good..massa 4 d win
TommyC
22nd March 2010, 5:58
massa hasn’t had too much luck in melbourne has he? surely it’s his year. hope not though…
macahan
22nd March 2010, 0:31
Guess I do my dues again.. ;)
US show times. All shown on SpeedTV and SpeedTV HD times are Central (GMT-6).
Friday 26th March 2010
Australian Grand Prix Free practice 1 – Not shown
Australian Grand Prix Free practice 2 – 12:30-2:00am
(FP2 airing includes FP1 overview)
Saturday 27th March 2010
Australian Grand Prix Free practice 3 – Not Shown
Australian Grand Prix Qualifying – 1:00-2:30am
Sunday 28th March 2010
Australian Grand Prix – 12:30-3:00am (Race starts at 1:00am)
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
22nd March 2010, 0:53
Thanks Macahan!
The_Pope
22nd March 2010, 5:13
I’ll be trackside for P1, P2, P3 and Quali.
Keith – we should chat about photo submissions :)
wasiF1
22nd March 2010, 8:05
Won’t you be there for the race.
wasiF1
22nd March 2010, 8:08
Asian fan who are watching F1 on espnstar can take help here.
http://www.espnstar.com/tv-listings/region1/day1/
Pat
23rd March 2010, 0:11
Anybody know anyway of recording from the Red Button on SKY ?
PeterG
25th March 2010, 22:31
Does anybody know if the BBC Red Button works on Dutch cable?
BNK Racing
25th March 2010, 22:45
keith do the clocks go ahead a hr in the UK this weekend? i hope so…means i would only have to stay up from 2am instead of 3am for quali (currently we are 3hrs behind the UK)
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