Zoxxo

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Formula One - Europe (Baku) Schedule on NBC Sports Network
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ALL SHOWS ARE ON NBC SPORTS NET THIS WEEKEND

1. THE TIMES AND DAYS FOR THIS RACE ARE DIFFERENT SO PAY ATTENTION!

2. THERE ARE THREE SHOWINGS OF THE RACE THIS WEEKEND

3. THERE ARE TWO SHOWINGS OF QUALIFYING AND ONE SHOWING OF PRACTICE.


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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Friday June 17, 2016
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• 6:00 AM - Practice 2 [LIVE] (9:00 AM Eastern)

Saturday June 18, 2016
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• 06:00 AM - Qualifying [LIVE] (9:00 AM Eastern)

Sunday June 19, 2016
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• 3:30 AM - Qualifying [RESHOWING] (6:30 AM Eastern)
• 5:00 AM - Pre-Race [LIVE] (8:00 AM Eastern)
• 5:30 AM - RACE [LIVE] (8:30 AM Eastern)
• 3:00 PM - RACE [RESHOWING] (6:00 PM Eastern)

Monday June 20, 2016
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• 4:00 AM - RACE [RESHOWING] (7:00 AM Eastern)

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BrianCunningham

thanks

raff

Thanks

Zoxxo

Here's a most interesting piece on the latest "pushing the boundaries" game in F1:

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/an...ar-777139/?s=1

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BrianCunningham

just a bit of a pucker factor



Button: F1 safety has gone backwards at Baku
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/bu...t-baku-788788/

BrianCunningham

1st look

BrianCunningham

Baku City Circuit - Onboard with Gulhuseyn Abdullayev

Nowanker

^ I can read his thoughts. They are: "where in hell am I supposed to go?"
Sorta like me autocrossing...

BrianCunningham

Looks like we have some safety issues. A lot of cut left rear tires in FP1. GP2 qualifying cancelled. FP2 on time start appears to be in doubt. Details on BBC Sport.

Apparently the kerbs are metal vs. typical plastic and some anchor bolts came loose. Bolts removed and kerbs welded together. Back on for FP2.

froggy47

Rumor is they are adding FP4 so the drivers can practice 3 point turns and "flick spin" turns. JK.

I will go out on a limb and predict several wrecks / SC's and slow clearing of the disabled cars as it's all new to this venue.

A really high speed street circuit should be fun, old city section of the course vs the new city section.

I think they will sort out the curbs b4 quali.

Those narrow city streets remind me of driving a rental car around Barcelona where you "share" the narrow city streets with a lot of pedestrians.

thebishman

I hope to Christ that cars don't touch tyres on this track at high speed. Nowhere for the car to go if it gets 'launched' except into a bloody building!!

BrianCunningham

Pole position lap

BrianCunningham

That went better than expected

BrianCunningham

Interesting background


Though a little TIGHT

Nowanker

Astonished by the lack of carnage!

froggy47

Me too. Every driver must have known it would be bad if they touched. So they gave a little.

Zoxxo

Ditto. That there were ZERO safety car deployments is quite a surprise. My guess is that a *lot* of talking was done to/with the drivers by team principles, Bernie, Charlie Whiting, etc., about this. Then, when the joke that was the GP2 race occurred, I expect another round of "let's try not to look like that!" made the rounds

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BrianCunningham

Four tires in 1.92 seconds
http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/blink-...top-1782346458

VetteDrmr

Merc must really be getting pressed by the other teams, they're making more and more mistakes; none real fatal but they just got the mapping configuration set up wrong on both cars.

http://espn.go.com/f1/story/_/id/163...ing-issue-baku

I really enjoyed the race much more than I thought I would. That super long stretch was fascinating to watch, and made for more passing opportunities than I thought the race would have. Actually made DRS pretty effective as well.

Z, sorry I didn't get in here earlier to say "thanks", just now got to the thread, so "Thanks!"

Have a good one,
Mike

Zoxxo

I love the logic of Wolf and Hamilton. It goes like this... We will make the cars so chock full of buttons and dials and ***** and settings and "features" that only a dedicated engineer who lives for this kind of s**t can follow it. Next, we will hire drivers who are either too stupid to master all of these settings and controls OR who can't be bothered to do so (see Matchett's comments on how Senna used to pore over the documents for his cars.) Next, when the inevitable screw-up comes along, use this NOT inevitable complexity to blame the FIA and as the excuse for going back to the scenario where the drivers are told how to operate their race cars by banks of technicians sitting at terminals placed all over the planet. Just freakin' amazing.

Here's a thought - have three of those "fans of complexity" engineers at each power unit manufacturer moved into a new department tasked with making that steering wheel that everyone loves to marvel at a ton less complex. Have a setting something like "turn these three ***** to zero and then hit the big red button" to emulate "CTRL-ALT-DELETE" on a PC. If you do the math re: all the possible settings that those steering wheel options represent, the resulting number of combinations is literally ridiculous. Hamilton is correct in this regard - the driver shouldn't be confronted with that nonsense. But *THAT* is what the complaint should be, Lewis (and Toto and Fernando and Kimi) - not the radio rules which are 100% on target.

Sheesh.

Agreed. It was clear from watching the cars on the warmup laps that they were running low downforce setups which meant that the drivers were going to have to actually drive the cars through the twisty bits.



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