2011 Indian Grand Prix programme

2011 Indian Grand Prix

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Have all the important information for the first ever Indian Grand Prix at your fingertips with the F1 Fanatic race programme.

The race weekend

2011 Indian Grand Prix preview – New track, different winner? F1 arrives in India

Liuzzi to stand down for Karthikeyan in India – Narain Karthikeyan will get to race in his home Grand Prix as HRT take Vitantonio Liuzzi out of the car for this race

Chandhok will not race in Indian Grand Prix – Lotus will stick with their usual driver line-up

Two DRS zones for the Indian Grand Prix – Drivers will get two opportunities per lap to use their Drag Reduction Systems

2011 F1 championship points – Full drivers and teams points standings heading into this weekend’s race.

Reserve drivers

The following changes to the usual driver line-up will be made for first practice only:

Karun Chandhok will drive Heikki Kovalainen’s car at Lotus

Tyres

Pirelli have brought the hardest tyre in their range, the hard tyre, for this race. The tyre can be identified by the silver colouring on the sidewalls. As usual, the soft tyre will also be available, with its yellow colouring.

In Friday practice the teams will have an extra set of soft tyres plus a further set of development tyres for next year.

Pirelli’s Paul Hembery explains the reasoning behind the choice of tyres for the Indian Grand Prix:

The track

Buddh International Circuit

The Buddh International Circuit is holding its first ever F1 race.

The track, designed by Hermann Tilke, is 5.137km (3.192 miles) long and includes a mixture of long straights with slow corners, and some faster bends later in the lap.

Buddh International Circuit – track information – Lap time estimates and more data

India’s F1 track: Another cookie-cutter circuit? – Does the Buddh International Circuit offer anything to distinguish itself on F1?óÔé¼??s increasingly homogeneous calendar?

Neel Jani drives the first laps of India’s F1 track – Video of the Red Bull show car lapping the new circuit

A lap of India’s F1 track with Sebastian Vettel – Video preview of the new circuit

The weather

Hot and dry conditions are expected for the race.

2011 Indian Grand Prix weather forecast – No rain but plenty of dust for first Indian race

Following the race live

F1 Fanatic Live will be open for your comments during every session.

Join us for every lap of the race, qualifying and practice at these times:

Friday 28th October 2011

Indian Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 (UK time: 5:30-7:00)
Indian Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 9:30-11:00)

Saturday 29th October 2011

Indian Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 11:00-12:00 (UK time: 6:30-7:30)
Indian Grand Prix Qualifying: 14:00 (UK time: 9:30)

Sunday 30th October 2011

Indian Grand Prix: 15:00 (UK time: 9:30)

More session times and live coverage details here:

You can follow F1 Fanatic on Twitter for updates throughout the race weekend:

And you can use the F1 Fanatic Live Twitter app to get updates from the drivers, teams and media at the circuit:

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You can enter and edit your predictions up to the start of qualifying on Saturday:

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3 comments on “2011 Indian Grand Prix programme”

  1. So, lots of good info. I’ll be at the track with my race scanner. Any idea of frequencies for the teams or for the BBC radio broadcast? Any info on local FM station broadcasting race?

    1. If you have access to digital radio you can always find BBC radio on there and plenty of others i’m sure.

  2. There are words that Star Sports in India will show all the session live but FP1, is it true?

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