From the streets of Monte Carlo to the traditional June trip to North America as the 12 teams and 24 drivers head to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve circuit in Montreal, Canada. Due to the time difference between the UK and Canada, the majority of proceedings are in primetime. Also, Sky Sports F1 have exclusive live coverage for this weekend, with BBC showing highlights at 22:30 on both days. As with previous years, the GP2 Series and GP3 Series do not travel to North America – their races shall continue in two weeks time in Valencia.
It looks like the Race programme is again at the 4 hours, 45 minutes length it was for Monaco. Saying that, there is a Legends programme featuring Murray Walker on immediately afterwards, which will be worth watching.
As previously reported on this blog, there are several personnel changes on both the BBC and Sky sides this weekend. On the BBC side, Lee McKenzie is replacing Jake Humphrey as presenter, with Humphrey presenting Euro 2012, while for 5 Live, Jonathan Legard replaces James Allen. On Sky Sports F1, Jacques Villeneuve is joining their team for the weekend alongside the usual line-up.
I’ve added the 5 Live F1 schedule below in italics for those without access to Sky Sports F1. Due to test match cricket and Euro 2012, only Practice 2 and the Race will be on 5 Live Sports Extra, with the rest of the sessions online only, hence why they are not listed below. The forum is also listed, but I suspect that will be uploaded to the BBC website at some point on Monday.
Thursday 7th June
16:00 to 16:30 – F1: Driver Press Conference (Sky Sports F1)
Friday 8th June
14:45 to 16:50 – F1: Practice 1 (Sky Sports F1)
18:45 to 21:00 – F1: Practice 2 (Sky Sports F1)
18:55 to 20:35 – F1: Practice 2 (BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra)
21:00 to 21:30 – F1: Team Press Conference (Sky Sports F1)
23:00 to 00:00 – The F1 Show (Sky Sports F1)
Saturday 9th June
14:45 to 16:10 – F1: Practice 3 (Sky Sports F1)
17:00 to 19:45 – F1: Qualifying (Sky Sports F1)
22:30 to 23:45 – F1: Qualifying Highlights (BBC One)
Sunday 10th June
17:30 to 22:15 – F1: Race (Sky Sports F1)
18:45 to 21:00 – F1: Race (BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra)
22:15 to 22:45 – F1: Legends: Murray Walker (Sky Sports F1)
22:30 to 00:30 – F1: Race Highlights (BBC One)
00:30 to 01:30 – F1: Forum (BBC Red Button)
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