Sky Sports are to broadcast a season review for each team, as noted a few weeks ago. Starting on Boxing Day at 19:00, the channel will broadcast a 30-minute season review on each team. The times are as follows:
Boxing Day
19:00 – Red Bull Season Review (featuring interviews with Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber and Christian Horner)
19:30 – Ferrari Season Review
Thursday 27th December
19:00 – McLaren Season Review
19:30 – Lotus Season Review (featuring interviews with Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean)
Friday 28th December
19:00 – Mercedes Season Review (featuring interviews with Ross Brawn and Nico Rosberg)
19:30 – Sauber Season Review (featuring interviews with Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi)
Saturday 29th December
15:00 – Force India Season Review (featuring Natalie Pinkham interviewing Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg)
15:30 – Williams Season Review (featuring Natalie Pinkham interviewing Pastor Maldonaldo and Bruno Senna)
Sunday 30th December
15:00 – Toro Rosso Season Review
15:30 – Caterham Season Review
New Year’s Eve
15:00 – Marussia Season Review
15:30 – HRT Season Review
At first I was sceptical, and felt that the above programmes are regurgitating material for the sake of regurgitating material given that there is a lot of pre-2012 material they could show, however, according to this post on Digital Spy Forums, the programme will feature new material, so may be worth watching – or at least putting on record.
Update on December 22nd – Now that the EPG has mostly updated, we can see that the majority of the Season Reviews will feature interviews, with the Force India one putting extra emphasis on ‘exclusive’, which supports the post above that the programmes are featuring new material. I’m very glad to see this confirmed as new interview footage is always good to see. What I am not glad about is that there is zero promotion that these programmes are even airing. Nothing on the Sky Sports F1 website to tell anyone, only one tweet from Sky F1 Insider to tell anyone. It is little wonders programmes get ratings in the thousands if the network does not promote them.
Some race footage with a few talking heads thrown in, a far cry from anything original.