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Old Yesterday, 10:15
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2017 RACE CALENDAR - All races live on Sky Sports F1

26 March: Australia - Exclusively live
9 April: China - Exclusively live
16 April: Bahrain - Live
30 April: Russia - Live
14 May: Spain - Exclusively live
28 May: Monaco - Live
11 June: Canada - Exclusively live
25 June: Azerbaijan - Live
9 July: Austria - Exclusively live
16 July: Great Britain - Live
30 July: Hungary - Exclusively live
27 August: Belgium - Live
3 September: Italy - Exclusively live
17 September: Singapore - Live
1 October: Malaysia - Live
8 October: Japan - Exclusively live
22 October: USA - Live
29 October: Mexico - Exclusively live
12 November: Brazil - Exclusively live
26 November: Abu Dhabi - Live
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Old Yesterday, 10:19
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Sky Corporate press release;
https://corporate.sky.com/media-cent...clusively-live

Great to see we are still getting GP2/3, I just love those series.

Le Mans is not clashing this year, that is good.
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Old Yesterday, 10:31
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Really surprised at some of the choices here and think they are for the good.

Good to see Monaco, USA, GB, Belgium & Bahrain live, the USA pick is a good one as it's in a very good time slot (8pm). Seems like Sky output is the same out of race weekends but there's only a mention of F1 Report, Ted's Notebook and Race Control behind the Red Button. (No mention of it on iPad?) Good to see GP2/GP3 live again this year and Sky have a big advantage of 4k UHD.
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Old Yesterday, 10:33
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Really surprised at some of the choices here and think they are for the good.

Good to see Monaco, USA, GB, Belgium & Bahrain live, the USA pick is a good one as it's in a very good time slot (8pm). Seems like Sky output is the same out of race weekends but there's only a mention of F1 Report, Ted's Notebook and Race Control behind the Red Button. (No mention of it on iPad?) Good to see GP2/GP3 live again this year and Sky have a big advantage of 4k UHD.
iPad race control will be there.

Hoping for some uhd available during some of the F1 testing sessions too, like we had with 3d.
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Old Yesterday, 11:10
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A major gamble by C4 not to pick Brazil in their first 3 this time. They decided to go for Monaco instead. Also no Canada as Sky inevitably went for the peak time races first.
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Old Yesterday, 12:02
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A major gamble by C4 not to pick Brazil in their first 3 this time. They decided to go for Monaco instead. Also no Canada as Sky inevitably went for the peak time races first.
If it's a normal 'new regs' season where one car has a stunning advantage over the rest of the field, the titles might already be clinched by October anyway.

Good to see a blue riband event live on UK terrestrial TV, even if it's a slow procession.

Tickled by the Sky press release proclaiming the "loudest season in years..."! Are they bringing back the screaming V10s then?
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Old Yesterday, 12:12
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Monaco would be bottom of my list of preferred live picks.
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Old Yesterday, 12:39
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Interesting change of pick from Ch4. I quite like it.
As in previous years I'm disappointed that Australia isn't free to air. It makes sense to me to bookend the season with first, last and British live, then a selection between.
I also hope Ch4 don't do their Mexico 2016 trick with the US GP in 2017. In 2016 they scheduled the end of the coverage for 9pm, just minutes after the flag. "Humans" followed so could't be delayed much. They extended ny 5 mins to get the podium in. No space for race stoppage delays.
Hopefully they've learned from that and please let's have Australia back live in 2018...
As I say though, apart from that, nice choices!
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Old Yesterday, 16:31
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So C4 went: Britain, Monaco Abu Dhabi.

Sky must have gone: Mexico, Canada, Brazil.
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Old Yesterday, 16:48
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Interesting change of pick from Ch4. I quite like it.
As in previous years I'm disappointed that Australia isn't free to air. It makes sense to me to bookend the season with first, last and British live, then a selection between.
I also hope Ch4 don't do their Mexico 2016 trick with the US GP in 2017. In 2016 they scheduled the end of the coverage for 9pm, just minutes after the flag. "Humans" followed so could't be delayed much. They extended ny 5 mins to get the podium in. No space for race stoppage delays.
Hopefully they've learned from that and please let's have Australia back live in 2018...
As I say though, apart from that, nice choices!
Australia isn't picked because it's in a very early time slot so it's up to the hardcore viewers to watch it live.
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Old Yesterday, 18:36
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https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/817069191429812224

Big enough story for ITV to include it as their 'Top Story' this evening.
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Old Yesterday, 18:42
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Heard this crap about Bernie and Silverstone for the last 15 years. 2003 Man-gate = end of Silverstone... Move to Donington = in the end stay at Silverstone. It'll probably work itself out.

(Although will say however much the improvements/upgrades where needed to Silverstone the current track layout is utter garbage. Truly made half the track feel like Abu Dhabi and the other half the great original start section now a headmess due to it being half way through the lap.)
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Heard this crap about Bernie and Silverstone for the last 15 years. 2003 Man-gate = end of Silverstone... Move to Donington = in the end stay at Silverstone. It'll probably work itself out.

(Although will say however much the improvements/upgrades where needed to Silverstone the current track layout is utter garbage. Truly made half the track feel like Abu Dhabi and the other half the great original start section now a headmess due to it being half way through the lap.)
This has nothing to do with Bernie. It's Silverstone wanting to stop hosting. If they didn't like the costs, then they never should have signed. I'm sure they'll agree some last minute deal with Bernie to ensure it remains on the calendar. You'd think the Prime Minister would lobby to give the circuit govt. funding since she's big on all things British... But when they can't even agree whether or not to build a circuit in Wales well then what hope has Silverstone got? International Motorsport may as well be dead in this country... /rant over
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Old Yesterday, 19:28
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https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/817069191429812224

Big enough story for ITV to include it as their 'Top Story' this evening.
Yawn.

(Although will say however much the improvements/upgrades where needed to Silverstone the current track layout is utter garbage. Truly made half the track feel like Abu Dhabi and the other half the great original start section now a headmess due to it being half way through the lap.)
I agree. I miss Bridge corner.

... You'd think the Prime Minister would lobby to give the circuit govt. funding since she's big on all things British... But when they can't even agree whether or not to build a circuit in Wales well then what hope has Silverstone got? International Motorsport may as well be dead in this country... /rant over
I think it's a Welsh Assembly matter, they decided they couldn't fully underwrite the project, not Westminster.
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Old Yesterday, 20:04
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It's quite an interesting set of races for C4. Whether by accident or design it feels like a decent attempt to rotate away from the races that they had last season. Obviously given the nature of the system they still have some of the same but it doesn't just feel like they've done exactly the same thing again.

Again, whether by accident or design it's interesting C4 will have both Singapore and Monaco live, the 2 longest races on the calendar and no adbreaks during the race. I wonder if they will be tempted to relax that for the (almost inevitable) safety car situations. Tangentially, I'll get to see Singapore in HD for the first time, which will be nice. And presumably Monza highlights will be pretty good, it's a short race but with an approximate "target" highlights length so (I assume) it will feel pretty close to the full thing.

It's also interesting they plumped for Monaco for other reasons. Not that it's a bad choice with it being the blue riband event, but it reduces the chance to get the prime time North/South American races live. I wonder if the rationale is that they actually DON'T want those races because high viewing figures aren't much use if you won't sell ad-space during them and can only pick up the "tail" at the breaks just before lights out and just after the race is done.

Of course it would be a shame if for whatever reason there was no British GP (the whole thing sounds a bit like taking the opportunity to bat eyes flirtatiously at Liberty and pwetty pwease can we have a discount...), but on the other hand it would be interesting to see the C4 pick strategy if they didn't have to default one of their picks to it. Not that that's a reason to not have a British GP but, y'know, it's just one race and not necessarily particularly the best one and so in some ways its a shame one live pick has to be unthinkingly given over to it.
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Old Yesterday, 22:52
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I like the C4 picks.... If I'm at home for the big 3 weekend (Monaco,Indy, Charlotte) the Barbie will be going for 18 hours and the local girls will be getting pissed in my front garden for free. !!!!
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PS. Wife will be livid... But hey.. Who cares !!!
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