63Corvette

1. Nico Rosberg Germany Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 32.816s
2. Mark Webber Australia Red Bull-Renault 1m 33.262s
3. Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault 1m 33.525s
4. Lewis Hamilton Britain McLaren-Mercedes 1m 33.572s*
5. Michael Schumacher Germany Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 33.862s

These are the current provisional standings, BUT, I couldn't find where practice was broadcast on any TV station. I show Qualifying and Race on Speed, but what about practice?

s200

Friday P2 was on Speed this morning at 7:00 AM EDT. They are streaming P3 on their website at 4:00 AM EDT Saturday morning. I believe that is done with no commentary. See http://formula-one.speedtv.com/

Zoxxo

Speed has been consistant for quite a few years now.

Practice (P2) on Fridays (sometimes Thursdays for Asian & Australian races)

Qualifying on Saturday (sometimes Fridays)

Race on Sunday (sometimes Saturdays)

Try this:
http://www.speedtv.com/schedule//filter/category/311

Don't mistake multiple practice listings for the showing of P1 and/or P3 as those are never shown on "tv" - they are just reruns. P1 and P3 are only shown via internet streaming.

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63Corvette

Thanks!!! My VCR couldn't find it, so I missed it I'm looking forward to Sunday's race. Nico is on roll!

AU N EGL

have DVR all the F1s

Friday practice
Sat Qual
Sun Race

The Panther

What's a VCR?

63Corvette

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John Shiels

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TwoSmoke

Shaping up to be a great season in F1.....

63Corvette

According to this evening's TV show "Formula 1 Debrief" the Force India Team has been "Sent Home" and will NOT race tomorrow. In addition, there were numerous videos of violence at or in the vicinity of the race circuit. I hope all is safe for the F1 Teams at tomorrow's race

VetteDrmr

I think that Debrief was filmed before qualifying, and was discussing their absense from P2 on Friday so their team could get to their quarters before dark. However, there is an article on Speed about how the Force India cars were never shown on TV during their qualifying sessions; DiResta made it all the way to Q3.

Have a good one,
Mike

Zoxxo

Excluding Force India from the race would:

1. Be a huge deal and would be all over the racing press and it's not.
2. Have to be done by the FIA or the stwards - not Bernie - and I'm not sure what rule they'd have broken to warrant such an extreme reaction.

Just in case anyone had forgotten just how amazingly petty The Dwarf(r) can be

That said, I do think it's pretty weenie of the Force India folks. Sheesh.

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63Corvette

Well the race itself turned out really good. There was lots of overtaking and drama, but the "right" team and driver won the race

John Shiels

They said the grandstands were sold out but I didn't see that at all. I don't think they were half full. Race was good.

drivinhard

Best F1 season ever so far

Zoxxo

Since the sheik owns the track all he has to do is buy all the tickets himself (write himself a check) and there ya go - all the tickets have been "sold". It's not like he can't afford it. Given the stunning amount of BS that's come from those folks over the past few weeks, I wouldn't put it past him/them at all.

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AU N EGL

Force India's team owner, even though he is very wealthy, had his airline shut down, none payment of airport landing fees, and planes may be repossessed for none payment to his investors and lenders. Wonder it that had anything to do with it???

63Corvette

I concur

John Shiels

GF said the gov probably bought all the remaining tickets so they could say they were sold out.

edit now I just read your post Zoxxo

Zoxxo

Nah.

For one thing, Mallya is no longer "the team's owner" as he sold a large stake in the team last year ($100 million) to Sahara India Pariwar. SIP owns 41% of "Sahara Force India F1 Team" as does Mallya. The board of directors is chaired by SIP's Roy Sahara (not Mallya.)

While the airline is going through what other airlines around the world are going through (see "America Airlines") his liquor and beer business is doing quite well. We won't be needing to hold any charity events for Vijay any time soon and the ups and downs of his other corporate interests are disconnected from the F1 team. That's precisely why you incorporate a business - to isolate it as a separate entity (one reason, anyway.) Even if Kingfisher Air went bankrupt, Mallya's personal bank account(s) would remain untouched. His net worth, which includes the market value of his shares of Kingfisher, would drop, yes. But that's only a percentage of what he actually has in h is pocket.

Remember that corporate finances are separate from personal finances. Forbes puts Mallya's net personal worth at ~$1 billion. To compare, Donald Trump is (allegedly) worth ~$1.7 billion. Trump businesses have filed for bankruptcy 4 times. See?

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