Scheduling: The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

From India, F1 heads to Abu Dhabi for round 18 of 20 in the 2012 Formula One season. Both BBC and Sky are live for this one, so full coverage is available from both sides.

On 5 Live F1, James Allen and Jaime Alguersuari are not with them this weekend, so it is John Watson alongside Jonathan Legard for the weekend. As is normal during live BBC TV weekends, however, Ben Edwards will be in the box too for practice 1, which I believe will be the first time since their A1 Grand Prix days that Edwards and Watson are commentating together!

Thursday 1st November
11:00 to 11:45 – F1: Driver Press Conference (Sky Sports F1)
19:30 to 20:00 – Britain’s Next F1 Star (4/6) (Sky Sports F1)

Friday 2nd November
08:45 to 10:50 – F1: Practice 1 (Sky Sports F1)
08:55 to 10:35 – F1: Practice 1 (BBC Red Button)
12:45 to 15:00 – F1: Practice 2 (Sky Sports F1)
12:55 to 14:35 – F1: Practice 2 (BBC Red Button)
15:00 to 15:45 – F1: Team Press Conference (Sky Sports F1)
17:00 to 18:00 – The F1 Show (Sky Sports F1)
18:45 to 19:00 – Inside F1 (BBC News Channel)

Saturday 3rd November
09:45 to 11:10 – F1: Practice 3 (Sky Sports F1)
09:55 to 11:05 – F1: Practice 3 (BBC Red Button)
12:00 to 14:45 – F1: Qualifying (Sky Sports F1)
12:10 to 14:15 – F1: Qualifying (BBC One)
18:45 to 19:00 – Inside F1 (BBC News Channel)

Sunday 4th November
11:30 to 16:15 – F1: Race (Sky Sports F1)
12:10 to 15:15 – F1: Race (BBC One)
15:15 to 16:15 – F1: Forum (BBC Red Button)

As always, if anything changes I shall update this blog if necessary.

10 thoughts on “Scheduling: The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

  1. Seems to me that Sky has more adverts/breaks when they aren’t competing with a live BBC race.

    I may be wrong but would be interested to know whether you or other blog readers have noticed?

  2. hi, just a quickie, the live drivers press conference is live at 11am on the thursday the 1st november, cheers

      1. Your wecome, the twilight of the Abu Dhabi weekend, is less than a week away 😀

      2. Unfortunately you didn’t twig the e-mail alert system, that you updated the blog entry so I missed it live – I’ll be watching it tomorrow morning’s replay at 8am

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