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ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - WHEN TO WATCH

Live text, TV and radio coverage available online for all on-track sessions.

Thursday 20 November

20:00-21:00, 5 live Formula 1

Friday 21 November

08:55-10:35, BBC Two and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, practice 1

13:00-14:35, BBC Two and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, practice 2

21:00-21:30, 5 live Formula 1

Saturday 22 November

06:40-08:20, BBC Two, practice 1 repeat

08:20-09:55, BBC Two, practice 2 repeat

09:55-11:05, BBC Two and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, practice 3

12:10-14:15, BBC One, qualifying

13:00-14:05, BBC Radio 5 live, qualifying

Sunday 23 November

12:10-15:30, BBC One, race

12:00-15:00, BBC Radio 5 live, live race

19:00-20:00, BBC Three, race Highlights
 
I am wondering who everyone is expecting to win both the race and the title?

I think Hamilton will definitely win the championship and I suspect the race also.

Grober hope you don't mind me asking this on your thread.
 
I am wondering who everyone is expecting to win both the race and the title?

I think Hamilton will definitely win the championship and I suspect the race also.

Grober hope you don't mind me asking this on your thread.

No problemo as Arnie would say. ;) I only hope its not decided by mechanical breakdown or collision.
 
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With the way things are going, maybe this will be the last year for F1 ??

No.

But I think serious questions need to be asked as to the qualifications of those making decision at the top and the way the money is spent and its attitude to its fans.

The double points setup on the last race is the invention of somebody who can do cheap TV quiz maths - not a serious multi-billion £ sport. The move to new complicated engines in a formula that is allegedly trying to keep costs under control is a travesty. The allocation of money and special treatment of some teams in the sport is rotten. The rules are too complicated.
 
I like what they've done with Moto GP. Top factory teams racing at the same time as 'budget' GP bikes.

They've done similar before in the history of F1. Someone mentioned a 'super' GP2 car racing with F1 cars.
 
No problemo as Arnie would say. ;) I only hope its not decided by mechanical breakdown or collision.

The really sad thing is that the only significant change the double points can effect will be a travesty if it happens.

I can only think: stupid stupid stupid.

They tried playing with the points over the season before and it never really worked.
 
How about this for a predicament with the title decider?

Race is 1pm, coverage starts at 12:15. Wife and I board a ship in Southampton - boarding commences 12:00, closes 15:30, ship sails 16:00. No chance to see it on land in the time window. Almost certainly no BBC on the ship, just the usual BBC World stuff, CNN, an all that rubbish. So my options are limited. There's no way I can wait 2 weeks+ to get home and watch it on Sky, hoping I don't find out the result in the meantime. Satellite WiFi on ship is about 40p per minute with rubbish bandwidth and drop outs.

Option1 - I've bought a TV stick for my laptop and will be hoping I can get a signal with the skinny aerial mag-clamped to the balcony rail. Will have to elbow my way past all the early boarding crowd on their way to the buffet. I hope it isn't raining or blowing a gale outside.

Option 2 - I'll try to WiFi tether the wife's iPad to my phone and watch it live that way. Might even do that while waiting to drop the car.

Option 3 - wait until 15:30, WiFi tether my laptop to phone and hope I can download on iPlayer before the ship gets out of signal range.

Option 4 - the desperate last chance. Wait 3 days until the first port and look for all the crew hanging out at a Barcelona coffee shop using free WiFi to contact home. Use anonymouse or hidemyass to appear as if in the UK, download the race on iPlayer. But it will be so sloooooww........ competing for bytes with a couple of hundred Philliinos and Sri Lankans skyping home.

Wish me luck. I'm probably AWOL on all forums until I get back. :crazy:

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How about this for a predicament with the title decider?

Race is 1pm, coverage starts at 12:15. Wife and I board a ship in Southampton - boarding commences 12:00, closes 15:30, ship sails 16:00. No chance to see it on land in the time window. Almost certainly no BBC on the ship, just the usual BBC World stuff, CNN, an all that rubbish.
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If it's P&O then you may find a channel called Sports24 that does repeat of the race in the evening.
 
The numbers are from memory so may/will be inaccurate, but I'm having difficulty in reconciling the desire to reduce costs with the tripling of engine costs.

I believe last season a customer engine contract was about £5M, this year it's £15M.
 
If it's P&O then you may find a channel called Sports24 that does repeat of the race in the evening.

Yeah, thanks. It's live on Sports24, with a repeat at 8am Monday and highlights 3pm all week. But we're not P&O (who used to show the GP in the casino), we're on Cunard, where I've never seen S24 before. Fingers crossed though.

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The numbers are from memory so may/will be inaccurate, but I'm having difficulty in reconciling the desire to reduce costs with the tripling of engine costs.

I believe last season a customer engine contract was about £5M, this year it's £15M.

I saw a figured of something like $100,000 per engine a in the mid 2000s so even the £5M represents an increase.

Technology costs money. The irony of the rules is that things like penalties for engine or transmissions can backfire as it means that the costs get transferred to the R&D to make the engines more reliable and cost per engine goes up offsetting the reduction in the number of engines.

The cars are way to too complex. The teams are simply too big.
 
I am wondering who everyone is expecting to win both the race and the title?

I think Hamilton will definitely win the championship and I suspect the race also.

Grober hope you don't mind me asking this on your thread.

I remember when Schumacher took out Hill to win the Championship...I wouldn't call this one just yet.
 
^^^ He tried the same tactic on Villeneuve in 1997 but damaged his own car :D
 
Yeah, thanks. It's live on Sports24, with a repeat at 8am Monday and highlights 3pm all week. But we're not P&O (who used to show the GP in the casino), we're on Cunard, where I've never seen S24 before. Fingers crossed though.

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From memory Sports24 is on all three Cunard ships as well as P&O. It was certainly on the QM2.. Good luck and enjoy the cruise AND the last F! :)
 
I remember when Schumacher took out Hill to win the Championship...I wouldn't call this one just yet.

And Prost vs Senna / Senna vs Prost.

I think it's rather less likely now simply because there is more telemetry and a bit less tolerance.

If it's between team mates then it's maybe more likely a team would get up to tricks by messing with the strategy and pit stops if they had a particular desire for an outcome.

I don't think the MB team have a particular desire. It's a win-win for them that isn't worth messing up.
 
What a start from Lewis :eek:

He absolutely nailed it and was in front within five car lengths. Now he's keeping Rosberg just outside DRS range.
 

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