Zoxxo

Here we go, gang! This should be an interesting season!

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Formula One - AUSTRALIA Schedule on NBC Sports Network
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1. THE TIMES AND DAYS FOR THIS RACE ARE DIFFERENT, SO PAY ATTENTION!

2. THERE ARE TWO SHOWINGS OF THE RACE THIS SATURDAY

3. ALL OF THE BROADCASTS ARE ON NBC SPORTSNET

4. The PRE-RACE show is scheduled separately.
xxxIf you want to see it you'll need to record it separately!!

The post-race show "F1 Extra" is shown immediately after the race show
whatever time that may be. NBC schedules "F1 Extra" to start 2 hours after
the start of the race but, in reality, it's always shown immediately after the race
irregardless of the clock. The simplest way to make sure you record "F1 Extra" is
simply to add enough extra time to the race broadcast recording to get (a) any
extra time that was needed to record the entire race including any delays, and
(b) "F1 Extra". My standard is to add at least three hours (!) just to make
sure I cover most eventualities.

I pull this info from from my Tivo's schedule. I have no guarantee that
it is correct but it usually is. I also double check it with the NBC Sports
NET schedule.


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ALL TIMES PACIFIC DST TIME !!!!! (Eastern times in parens)
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Thursday March 13, 2014
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• 6:00 PM - Countdown To F1 (season preview) (9:00 PM Eastern)
• 6:30 PM - Practice 1 [LIVE] (9:30 PM Eastern)

Thursday March 13, 2014
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• 10:30 PM - Practice 2 [LIVE] (1:30 AM FRI. MORNING Eastern)

Friday March 14, 2014
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• 2:00 PM - Countdown To F1 (season preview w/ P2 Update) (5:00 PM Eastern)
• 11:00 PM - Qualifying [LIVE] (2:00 AM SAT. MORNING Eastern)
• 10:30 PM - Countdown To F1 (season preview w/ P2 Update) (1:30 AM SAT. MORNING Eastern)

Saturday March 15, 2014
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• 3:00 AM - Qualifying [RESHOWING] (6:00 AM Eastern)
• 10:00 PM - Countdown To F1 (season preview w/ P2 Update) (1:00 AM SUN. MORNING Eastern)
• 10:30 PM - Pre-race Show [LIVE] (1:30 AM SUN. MORNING Eastern)
• 11:00 PM - RACE [LIVE] (2:00 AM SUN. MORNING Eastern)

Sunday March 16, 2014
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• 3:30 AM - RACE [RESHOWING] (6:30 AM Eastern)

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froggy47

drivinhard

will they show last years race like a rain delay when nobody is running after the halfway mark?

Zoxxo

Good question.

When I said "This should be an interesting season" this very question was certainly a component of "interesting."

I'm pulling for Massa to take it in Australia.

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drivinhard

Massa could very well have a JB 2009 season, whoda thunk

Zoxxo

For those interested in a quick catching up on all the changes between 2013 and 2014 as well as the teams, tracks, and drivers for 2014, NBC Sports Net has done 4 primers...

The Drivers
http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com...r-the-drivers/

The Tracks
http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com...er-the-tracks/

The Teams
http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com...mer-the-teams/

The Changes ()
http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com...r-the-changes/

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Zoxxo

I just added the "Countdown To F1" season preview show to the schedule. It runs just before the first practice session on Thursday.

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Zoxxo

NBC Sports F1 coverage will go like this in 2014:


Note that this says nothing about Practice and/or Qualifying sessions and where they will be shown. As 2013 showed, they can mix it up pretty well if things conflict.

It's nice that the entire broadcast team will be in Monaco and Canada as well as in Austin. Now, if we could just get Mr. Varsha back into the game.

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raff

Thanks for the F1 updates

Zoxxo

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Zoxxo

Whiting says FIA will stop the race if all cars retire…

Given the poor reliability suffered by teams in testing there has been a lot of speculation about how many cars might finish in Australia this weekend, with incidents potentially adding to the attrition rate.

When asked today FIA race director Charlie Whiting said that he will stop the race if there are no cars running.

“First of all I’d like to say that I think a lot of these Doomsday scenarios are quite unlikely, knowing F1 teams and how efficient they actually are,” he said. “But if it came to the situation where no cars were running we’d just simply stop the race, because there wouldn’t be much of one, would there? But being serious I think that would be the only option. If the race couldn’t be restarted, as the rules say, then the results would be declared at the lap prior to the one during which the race was stopped, and whoever was running at that time would be the winner.”

In theory races can last until the two-hour mark, but Whiting said the clock would not be allowed to run down until the flag was thrown on the off chance that someone might fix their car and re-emerge.

“I don’t think we would [wait]. If it became clear that there wasn’t a race any more, because there were no cars on the track, I think we would stop the race, because there wouldn’t be much else to do, really. It’s not something that’s foreseen by the rules, and obviously it’s something that we hope doesn’t happen.”

Whiting agreed that if attrition is high cars that might normally have retired could re-appear after repairs.

“I’m not sure we should really be talking about this, I stress I think it’s highly unlikely, knowing the professionalism of the teams! But once they started dropping like flies I think the ones that thought they’d stopped – because they don’t have to officially retire of course, they can come back out again – they might think hang on minute, I might get something here, let’s get this old girl going again and get back out there…”

They would of course have to complete 90% of the winner’s distance in order to be classified and score points.

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BrianCunningham

Pretty sad when they have to thing of that scenario.

Guess if the car goes in the garage in not necessarily done.

BTW UniMás (Spanish) is covering the race and broadcasting for free

Zoxxo

I suspect it's more the reporters who think of such things.

Definitely not. Even if you fall outside the 90% rule it's still time and laps that you can use as a "test session."

What F1 is dealing with right now is a direct result of yet another example (of many, many) of their stunning inability to analyze the consequences of their rules. It's one thing to severely limit out-of-season testing when the changes to the cars will be some moving around of the exhaust pipes, some diffuser tricks, and some front winglet development. It's a whole different thing when the changes are as holistic and encompassing as they are this time around. To expect the teams to design and develop F1 cars that use all new *everything* and unknown technologies and then only let them test the things for just a few days is insanity on a grand scale.

Check this out:

Teams set to miss FP3 to preserve their cars

Teams are planning to minimize their running in FP3 in Australia this weekend in order to ensure that their cars are fit to take part in qualifying.

It’s been obvious for some weeks that the length of time required to change components on 2014 cars means that anyone hitting a serious problem in the Saturday practice would not be able to ready their car for qualifying. As a result some teams will try to do all of their work on Friday and perhaps make only a token appearance for an installation lap on Saturday. A lack of action on track won’t be good news for fans.

The FIA’s Charlie Whiting confirmed that teams have already indicated that they will follow such a strategy, and one team manager told this blog that it was a logical option given the risk of missing qualifying.

"There’s a two-hour gap as we know between P3 and qualifying," said Whiting. "And it would be very unfortunate if a team had a problem at the end of P3 that they couldn’t fix for qualifying." It’s not without precedent as we’ve seen it happen in the past – Fernando Alonso having a shunt in Monaco a few years ago, for example.

"Teams are worried that it’s going to be more common, and I’ve even heard teams saying that they will skip P3 to make sure that they’ve got the car ready for qualifying. But we’ll see. Everyone’s got their own way of going about things, some teams tell me it will take seven hours to change an engine, some say it will take three, some say it will take an hour and a half. We don’t know really whether such difficult situations like that will actually arise. I’m sure things will be different to what we’re used to for the first three or four races, but I have no real feeling for what will happen."



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Zoxxo

It's tonight!! Thursday!!

This is (apparently) the only race of the season where they will be showing both P1 and P2!!

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raff

Speaking of the complete broadcast schedule -- looks like all races will include P2, Qualifying and Race.
As already mentioned -- Australia is the exception where P1 is televised.

2014 F1 Broadcast Shcedule:
http://www.nbcsports.com/motor-sport...bc-tv-schedule

Zoxxo

Which is the way NBC SportsNet did it last year and the way Speed Channel did it for years prior to that. Some things never change

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froggy47

My nbcsn (attuverse) has preceeding Vettel interview, Countdown to F1, and after Road to Ferrari. Some may be repeats.

Zoxxo

All those shows are new as far as I know. I try to keep the schedule pared down to just those things directly pertinent to the actual F1 race stuff.

Another Vettel interview? .

The Ferrari thing might be interesting but too often their stuff is self-serving, first-grader info ("tell me something I don't know, Luca.") To be fair, this one might be interesting. Here's the NBC SportsNet blurb on it:
http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com...-season-video/

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Gary2KC5

I'll bet this is just to blip TV ratings. As someone that got bored with F1 after the Senna/Prost era and the over technology era...I will be watching...or at least recording it.

My gut tells me these guys are too smart to let this happen.

I seriously doubt there will be more than a few cars drop out from electronics.

But if it does...I will be :withstu pid:

Zoxxo

Did you watch P1? Looked like it was the real first day of testing.

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