A look back at ITV’s first live Formula 1 broadcast in 1997 – the VT count

While my main post on Tuesday looked back at the 1997 Australian Grand Prix Qualifying broadcast on ITV, this post will simply note the lengths of VT’s and the time that they were actually live for. Basically, the length of everything.

01: Intro
– 00:00 to 00:35 (35 seconds)

02: VT
– 00:35 to 02:35 (2 minutes)
– Jim introduces programme from the lakeside
– a look at the Melbourne scenary
– an introduction to the ITV F1 team

03: VT
– 02:35 to 02:42 (7 seconds)
– Jim linking from previous piece to the next piece
– not live as it probably took him more than three minutes to get to the studio

04: VT
– 02:42 to 05:23 (2 minutes, 41 seconds)
– driver line-up

05: Live
– 05:23 to 07:07 (2 minutes, 44 seconds)
– in studio with Jim, Tony and Simon outlining key discussion points

06: VT
– 07:07 to 07:51 (44 seconds)
– Martin and Murray do a discussion piece to camera

07: Live
– 07:51 to 08:16 (25 seconds)
– in studio with Jim linking to an Inside F1 piece

08: VT
– 08:16 to 09:17 (1 minute, 1 second)
– David Coulthard explains all the buttons on the steering wheel

09: Live
– 09:17 to 09:50 (33 seconds)
– in studio with Jim linking to a piece about anti-F1 in Melbourne

10: VT
– 09:50 to 11:06 (1 minute, 16 seconds)
– News (focus on anti-F1, tyre war, Coulthard, Peter Phillips, tram strike)

11: Live
– 11:06 to 11:38 (32 seconds)
– in studio with Jim linking to a live Damon Hill interview

12: Live
– 11:38 to 12:52 (1 minute, 14 seconds)
– James Allen interviewing Damon Hill in pit-lane

13: Live
– 12:52 to 13:39 (47 seconds)
– discussion about Damon Hill’s weekend so far and expectations

Commercial Break.

14: Live
– 00:00 to 01:00 (1 minute)
– discussion about title championship predictions

15: Live
– 01:00 to 02:35 (1 minute, 35 seconds)
– Louise Goodman interviewing Jacques Villeneuve in pit-lane

16: Live
– 02:35 to 02:51 (16 seconds)
– in studio with Jim linking to track guide

17: VT
– 02:51 to 04:46 (1 minute, 55 seconds)
– Martin Brundle track guide using the F1 1997 video game

18: Live
– 04:46 to 05:47 (59 seconds)
– discussion about Schumacher’s track complaints
– Jim hands over to Murray and Martin

Totals
VT – 10 minutes, 19 seconds (50.6%)
Live – 10 minutes, 05 seconds (49.4%)

VT includes the opening titles.