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2020 Russian Grand Prix TV Times

2020 Russian Grand Prix

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Here’s how to watch the 2020 Russian Grand Prix live in the UK and USA:

2020 Russian Grand Prix: Friday 25 September – Sunday 27 September 2020

UK (BST)

Day Session Channel Coverage starts Session starts Session ends
Friday Russian Grand Prix first practice live Sky Sports F1 08:30 09:00 10:30
Friday Russian Grand Prix second practice live Sky Sports F1 12:45 13:00 14:30
Saturday Russian Formula 2 race one Live Sky Sports F1 08:05 08:05
Saturday Russian Grand Prix third practice live Sky Sports F1 09:45 10:00 11:00
Saturday Russian Grand Prix qualifying live Sky Sports F1 12:00 13:00
Saturday Russian Grand Prix qualifying highlights Channel 4 18:30
Sunday Russian Formula 2 race two Live Sky Sports F1 08:45 08:45
Sunday Russian Grand Prix race live Sky Sports F1 10:30 12:10
Sunday Russian Grand Prix race highlights Channel 4 17:30

USA (Eastern)

Day Session Channel Coverage starts Session starts Session ends
Friday Russian Grand Prix first practice live ESPN2 3:55 4:00 5:30
Friday Russian Grand Prix second practice live ESPN2 7:55 8:00 9:30
Saturday Russian Grand Prix third practice live ESPN 4:55 5:00 6:00
Saturday Russian Grand Prix qualifying live ESPN2 7:55 8:00
Sunday Russian Grand Prix race live ESPN2 7:05 7:10

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8 comments on “2020 Russian Grand Prix TV Times”

  1. Is Sky not showing the F2 races this weekend? If not where can you watch them ?

    1. F1 live streams F2 races on their youtube channel, that is a good option to watch them there.

  2. I think there is a typo for the starting times of F2’s race 1 and FP3.

    1. Says on Sky TV guide 9.00pm 🤨

  3. I don’t really get the thing about having FP2 and QLF both commence at 15:00 when the race is for 14:10 (local times).
    hy not 14:00-14:00-14:10 for the sake of consistency or at least 15:00-14:00-14:10 like with Silverstone this year? Alternatively, 14:00-15:00-14:10. Why not just, for every event, start these three sessions during the same hour, i.e., 14:00 for both FP2 and QLF if the local time for the race in question is 14:10, and 15:00 if it’s 15:10, 13:00 when 13:10 and so on? Would also give 60 minutes more scope with the sunset times, especially considering the support categories.

  4. If the times are correct then there is a conflict with MotoGP and F1 this weekend and given Sochi generally is a snoozefest worse than Moto2 races I can safely watch starting 5-6 laps and skip over to MotoGP where title fight this year has gotten lot more interesting.

    1. @Chaitanya Not F1’s fault. This was Sochi’s weekend all along already before COVID. BTW, does F1 actually live stream the F2 races on the official YT channel? I use that regularly, but haven’t noticed any full-race streams there. Not that I’d care an awful lot, though.

      1. Yes, this year onwards F1 has started live streaming F2 races on youtube and they also seem to be leaving full F2 races on their channel for anyone who wants to watch them later. For me in India its the best way to watch F2 races as none of sports channels air lower classes of Formula racing unlike MotoGP where all 3 classes are aired in single telecast. I found Sochi’s time quite odd as Qualifying session(according to F1 website) is on at 17.30 IST while race is starting nearly an hour early at 16.40 while TV schedule and Times posted above are about 1hr later.

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