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For viewers in the UK, here are the details of Sky and Channel 4’s coverage of the 2018 Australian Grand Prix in the UK:
Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th March 2018
| Day | Session | Channel | Coverage starts | Session starts | Session ends |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | Australian Grand Prix first practice live | Sky Sports F1 | 12:30 | 01:00 | 02:30 |
| Friday | Australian Grand Prix second practice live | Sky Sports F1 | 04:45 | 05:00 | 06:30 |
| Saturday | Australian Grand Prix third practice live | Sky Sports F1 | 02:45 | 03:00 | 04:00 |
| Saturday | Australian Grand Prix qualifying live | Sky Sports F1 | 05:00 | 06:00 | |
| Saturday | Australian Grand Prix qualifying highlights | Channel 4 | 13:00 | ||
| Sunday | Australian Grand Prix live | Sky Sports F1 | 04:30 | 06:10 | |
| Sunday | Australian Grand Prix highlights | Channel 4 | 14:30 |
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Joao (@johnmilk)
20th March 2018, 0:18
RACE WEEK!!!!!
Jere (@jerejj)
20th March 2018, 3:27
@johnmilk Finally, the wait is almost over, LOL.
William
20th March 2018, 3:03
Us Australians on FTA have to put up with Ten’s commentators for all sessions at Albert Park this year, instead of using Sky Sports F1 commentary team. Which Ten takes now after the new revised deal late last year instead of taking Channel 4 commentary team.
Sam (@crunch)
20th March 2018, 10:07
‘Have to put up with’
I look forward to Australian commentary every year. Hearing Mark Webber and Alan Jones call the race is a brilliant way to start the season.
The ‘celebrity’ interviews on the couch are the only things I could do without, but it only happens once a year so I enjoy them for their stupidity. Actually, not the only thing I could do without… That, and Matt White… *shivers*
William
20th March 2018, 13:25
@crunch – its just the way Mark Webber says ‘mate’ nearly every sentence. Which is a bit annoying sometimes. Other than that I don’t mind Ten’s on-air commentators. They even wheeled out former cricketer Adam Gilchrist as a part of the Ten team last year and this year again. I remember that time in 2014, when they had Damien Fleming and Ricky Ponting for the Grand Prix Breakfast.
To your last paragraph, Ten didn’t do the ‘celebrity’ interviews last year on the couch, as I think they have ditched it
Adam (@cruzmisl)
20th March 2018, 8:09
Disappointed that this site still only displays UK times.
If you won’t display timings for other countries I don’t think you should run these articles anymore as it portrays strong UK bias that I thought you were trying to distance yourself from.
Blastermaster
20th March 2018, 8:28
Adam, there is a link for viewer information in other countries.
Joao (@johnmilk)
20th March 2018, 8:46
It displays for Portugal too for example and quite a few others
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
22nd March 2018, 18:57
Which happens to be the same timetable as GMT.
glynh (@glynh)
20th March 2018, 9:17
While it would be nice to see more listings It would take far too much time to list every country and there’s no point losing an article that’s useful to the majority of readers of a UK based (although far from exclusive) site.
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
20th March 2018, 9:34
Well, this is still a UK site. Just because it isn’t still called f1fanatic.co.uk doesn’t mean it should now show times for all other countries. If Keith had to put 1 other countries times in, people would say why this and not that. It would not go down well. So I can understand why just the UK times are shown.
Jere (@jerejj)
20th March 2018, 11:12
@thegianthogweed @glynh Precisely what I’ve pointed out as well a couple of times.
https://www.racefans.net/2017/05/22/2017-monaco-grand-prix-tv-times/
https://www.racefans.net/2017/11/06/2017-brazilian-grand-prix-tv-times/
Egonovi
21st March 2018, 17:30
No, that’s not true, @thegianthogweed.
As @KeithCollantine gave as the first reason for the name change, he wanted to move away from giving the impression to be a British website.
Lums (@lums)
20th March 2018, 9:59
Jeez, dramatic!
FlatSix (@)
20th March 2018, 14:30
@cruzmisl Formula One actually has a ‘your local time’ button on their site.
Big Joe
20th March 2018, 19:35
It shows times for the two UK channels though, who work on UK time.
It’s asking a bit much if you want the site owners to be experts on all the channels around the world and list their times.
Big Joe
20th March 2018, 19:36
@cruzmisl
Matt
23rd March 2018, 4:55
what time should he use then?
My servers at work are all set to GMT (UTC technically) even though they spread out all over the world. It is normal and standard practise when time synchronisation is important.
I guess it would not hurt to add the local time along aside the UK time (or UTC time would be better)
frood19 (@frood19)
20th March 2018, 10:12
@keithcollantine can I be a terrible pendant and ask that you use the 24 hour clock throughout? the start time of the coverage for the first practice session should be 00:30, not 12:30. i mean i’m calm right now, but building up to @cruzmisl levels of annoyance as i type.
unless of course there’s twelve hours of build up in which case I stand corrected and will commit seppuku forthwith. or possibly just eat my hat.
HUHHII (@huhhii)
20th March 2018, 10:20
@keithcollantine I know how you hated it when people called F1Fanatic a UK website. Now if you want to get rid of that it would be good idea to finally publish other than UK racing times in these articles. UK time is fine, but why not add few others? Or instead of these perhaps you should just add a link to a website app or something which automatically shows racing times for viewer’s local timezone.
Jere (@jerejj)
20th March 2018, 11:17
@huhhii See a couple of comments above that explain it very well why there wouldn’t really be a point in adding other countries’ timings.
FlatSix (@)
20th March 2018, 14:33
@huhhii If he’s not going to add the hours for Phoenix Island I’d say just leave it.
For those not to lazy there is google, I think if you simply type ‘Formula One’ you already get a calendar in your timezone with session times.
HUHHII (@huhhii)
20th March 2018, 18:36
@flatsix I can find TV schedules from elsewhere, thank you very much. I was trying to advice Keith, since publishing these UK-only TV time articles easily makes people think this as a UK-site, a thought Keith has tried to get rid of.
Big Joe
20th March 2018, 19:48
@huhhii
UK channels use UK time believe it or not
Johns
20th March 2018, 13:42
I am in the USA. I am gonna try to watch the spanish stations and hope they dont have commercials. For commentary i think i will use the F1 live feed on this here website. Go Racefans.net.
Paul (@frankjaeger)
20th March 2018, 16:36
Bring on 2018!! Early start for us Brits but I think the Aussies and Asian fans have it worse during the Europe leg, all those early mornings!
Paul (@frankjaeger)
20th March 2018, 16:36
Or rather the Americanos?
Kimo2u
20th March 2018, 16:55
I want to watch online on my laptop browser. Other than bootleg streaming with irritating spam pop ups and poor quality, where can I go for paid quality coverage. Links would be great.
Thank you very much.
Will Haas get a podium this year???
Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
21st March 2018, 17:40
Race start time at 06:10? I can’t recall the last time a race didn’t start on the hour or half past, and I have seen almost all of the races in the last 9 years.
MazdaChris (@mazdachris)
22nd March 2018, 8:29
@keithcollantine Do the times above take into account the clock change on Sunday morning? I.e. the race start time would otherwise had been 05:10 in old money?
MazdaChris (@mazdachris)
22nd March 2018, 19:50
Oh, also, you want to update your blurb about the prices for NowTV, as they’ve put them up. It’s now 7.99 and 12.99 for a day or a week respectively.