Its still broadcasting on the freeview IP channel 240.
Shame they cannot make a go of it, as I did watch a fair bit of it during the week.
Although its off the epg on sky, still available as a manual add channel at;
11.082 H, 22.000, 5/6, DVB-S, QPSK

The off-season is gone and finally it's time for the first action of two wheels this year. No this ain't MotoGP, this the World Superbike Championship and it's finally the first round of the season at Melbourne, Australia.

A couple of changes this in the format, as you all know (If you were a WSBK person) that both of the races would happen on the Sunday. Sadly time changes and it's time for change with R1 now taking place on the Saturday and free practice moving to Friday. The only good thing I find with this is that it's a longer weekend.

Don't worry though, Eurosport is back to show every round live this year and with the return of the World Superbike championship comes the return of Superbike Sunday as well as a review of last year's race. Eurosport 1 HD will show the live action of the super pole and races while Eurosport 2 HD will show 2 hour highlights of the day's action. Channel 4 will continue to show FTA highlights of the race.

Eurosport will also be on-site for the first round and present from a studio for the second year running and the guest list will include some big in the superbike world (I don't know who) and commentary will come from James Whitham and Jack Burnicle.

Below is the schedule you need for this weekend action:

10:20pm-11:20pm: WSBK Australia 2015 Review (Eurosport 1)

12:15am-5:15am: Live WSBK Superpole/Race 1 (Eurosport 1)
9am-11am: WSBK Day 1 Highlights (Eurosport 2)

2am-5:15am: Live WSBK Race 2 (Eurosport 1)
9am-11am: WSBK Day 2 Highlights (Eurosport 2)
9pm-11pm: WSBK Weekend Highlights (Eurosport 2)

If anything changes I will update the schedule above

Hmmm, MotorsTV's website still says it's available on Sky, but their Twitter bio just says:


They've not posted about any change though, and I don't know if that bio has changed recently. Hopefully it's not gone for good, especially as there's plenty of UK spotbeams these days - they could drop the encryption and get on Freesat for even more visibility. I did always worry about them moving so far down Sky's EPG though.

From Sky on Twitter after someone asked them where its gone!
See here

I'm surprised everyone seems to be up for having all the races similar length.

I actually like the variety of, say, knowing that Monaco will be a long one or Singapore is almost definitely going to hit the 2 hour mark and is an endurance feat as much as anything. I think it adds a bit more to individual events if the race is a non-standard length for whatever reason. Not sure I want to lose that by making them all 90 minutes + 1 lap or whatever.

Longer races I don't want to shorten. Just some of the legacy races which are getting shorter and shorter to lengthen them out a bit.

Day 4:

SSN Reports:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3u...-reports_sport

Paddock Uncut:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3u...ck-uncut_sport

Ted's Notebook:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3u...notebook_sport

RIP MOTORS TV

Never has a motorsport channel done so much with so little

Time for a eurosport 3 to scoop up some of the more worthy stuff?
I for one am nervous about the prospect, in a football and Olympic year, of not seeing much live motorsport on eurosport either, particularly when they so worship the 2 wheels as well and prioritise thst over almost anything else.

Would British gt (live) find its way to itv4 if the schedules could be worked it between bsb and btcc?

It's still working on Freeview channel 240 and Virgin Media channel 545... I wonder if they'll switch from Encrypted on Sky to FTA on Freesat soon?

It doesn't help that for high-profile events like the WEC, you could pay a (comparitively) small amount to watch the whole thing - including Le Mans now - in full and with the same commentary in 720p HD through the WEC website. Of course the loss of Motors' coverage of lower-level events like national championships will be a shame.

Agreed, why should all races last the same time? Having more diversity in tracks and the challenges they bring can only be a good thing.

One idea I did agree with is moving European races to later afternoon (or maybe late morning) so it doesn't effectively take up your Sunday if you're watching live.

Thanks for the heads up. That will teach me not to add all the motorsports calendars to my phone calendar in the New Year. Here is a handy compact reference to the rest of the year

http://www.lloydbayliss.co.uk/mscal/mscal.php

You only think a race is going on too long if it's boring. And great races always seem to be over too soon.

Answer? More good races.

How many races are interesting only at the start and leading up to and through the final round of pit stops? Too many.

We should use statistics to work out the most "exciting" races on the calendar, and adjust the time so that there isn't an exciting race that's too short, yet neither is there a boring one that's too long.

Perhaps have the fans go online and vote when the race should end.

Probably the best races are the ones that start off dull and get increasingly tense towards the end. Canada 2014 springs to mind.

Disappointed to see that FOM (IMO) haven't done as much re. testing this year as they did last year. While we had lots of "breaking news"-style vids from Peter Windsor to Camera last year on F1 Access, this time it's mostly just been interviews, with a single Peter Windsor sum-up at the end of the day. (Unless of course the broadcasters have requested FOM do less so they can direct viewers to their own testing coverage of course )...

I agree with this. It's quite easy to watch a 2hr show in the morning from say 9-11, or in the afternoon from 4-6 but when it's in the middle I think a lot of people have to balance it against, diy, taking the kids out,walking the dog, visiting friends and family, shopping.
I know I have had to just not watch races to accommodate other more important activities.

Surely most people use F1 (and all sport) as an excuse not to do DIY, taking the kids out, walking the dog, visiting friends and family, shopping etc.

Some of us don't have any choice

I do feel a tinge of guilt watching a race at 1pm, if watch a bit of the post race as well, the day is gone...

Great races are generally some unpredictable combination of factors you couldn't have guessed ahead of time. Inclement weather, or a surprise in qualifying resulting in drivers out of position, or the tyres not working in the expected way, or a perfectly (or badly!) timed Safety Car throwing things up in the air, or they just happened to luck into the perfect DRS zone length, or whatever, stuff you couldn't replicate it if you ran the race again.

I don't personally see how great races correlate with the length of the race, so I don't see how your suggestion would work. We could say (hypothetically) everyone loves Canada and everyone hates Singapore, so make Canada longer and make Singapore shorter, but is it going to make the race better? You might get a really poor Canada that just drags on, or a really great Singapore that everyone wished went longer, because of just about any reason, really.

Two 10-second teasers have just appeared on Channel 4 along with @C4F1's first ever tweet...

https://twitter.com/C4F1/status/703331131203166212

I take it "The Chain" is being used as the theme tune then

It sounds like a re-recording to me from their short trailers i've seen. Maybe the BBC have exclusive rights to the original recording yet C4 were allowed to use a cover?

Probably yeah, but with Super Sunday football, Rugby and other sports happening on a Sunday too something has to give at some point!

Looking by today's SBK broadcast the Dorma graphics for MotoGP will remain mainly the same this year. (With I expect some updates)