F1 2013 Calendar & TV Coverage

Duke · 2 Feb 2013 at 15:45

2013 Calendar:

Code:

 1. Australia        Melbourne           17 Mar
 2. Malaysia         Sepang              24 Mar
 3. China            Shanghai            14 Apr
 4. Bahrain          Bahrain             21 Apr
 5. Spain            Catalunya           12 May
 6. Monaco           Monte Carlo         26 May
 7. Canada           Montreal            9 Jun
 8. Great Britain    Silverstone         30 Jun
 9. Germany          Nurburgring         7 Jul
10. Hungary          Hungaroring         28 Jul
11. Belgium          Spa-Francorchamps   25 Aug
12. Italy            Monza               8 Sep
13. Singapore        Singapore           22 Sep
14. Korea            Korea               6 Oct
15. Japan            Suzuka              13 Oct
16. India            Buddh               27 Oct
17. Abu Dhabi        Yas Marina          3 Nov
18. USA              Americas            17 Nov
19. Brazil           Interlagos          24 Nov

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TV Coverage:

Sky: All live on Sky Sports F1 channel. The TV times for these will be in each thread created.

BBC: Nine races live - Chinese, Spanish, Canadian, British, Belgian, Italian, Japanese, Indian & Brazilian. Rest will be on 5 Live and delayed online/red button. Practice is now shown on BBC2 instead of just on Red Button. BBC TV times can be found here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17238688

bru · 3 Feb 2013 at 01:28

any idea if any of the testing will be on the TV?

Duke · 3 Feb 2013 at 23:01

Sadly not. There are a lot of live coverage blog type sites though, so will post up links when making the thread for those over the next few weeks.

Skeeter · 3 Feb 2013 at 23:11

bru said:
any idea if any of the testing will be on the TV?

Sadly not. The FIA (for reasons unknown, considering the amount of photos that get uploaded almost instantly) do not allow live broadcasting of F1 testing video footage. I think they only recently allowed video to be recorded and broadcast as a later date.

Sky Sports News did have some pieces from testing last year though, so they might do that again. Just some interviews and a bit of analysis at the end of the day.

Alibaba99 · 4 Feb 2013 at 17:43

Sky Sports F1 are covering the testing daily with an half hour slot at 9pm.

Flibster · 4 Feb 2013 at 20:01

Just noticed that Sky Sports F1 HD has changed channel too. Used to be 408, it's now 406.

Looking forward to seing Ted's notebook again. They were usually really good.

Nismo · 6 Feb 2013 at 06:20

So Bernie's pretty convinced there will be no extra race, meaning the BBC loses out on a possible live event and will only have 9.

http://www.thenational.ae/sport/for...s-but-russia-set-for-2014-bow-says-ecclestone

Nismo · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:14

Holy Moly. Sky are showing the 2nd Barcelona test in 3D with Crofty commentating :eek:

I'm off that week too

http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1...celona-test-in-3D-from-28-February-to-3-March

edit - Ah...the small print says live 3D from 2pm each day. Still pretty epic though. Live test coverage AND F1 in 3D, both world firsts?

Skeeter · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:20

Not quite, they are showing live footage from 2pm each day, so 2 hours a day.

Still a massive step up, and shows that FOM are allowing live testing footage to be broadcast.

smr · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:29

Wonderful news

smr · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:30

I'm beginning to wish I had a 3D TV now. I assume all the races this year will be in 3D too then? I haven't heard anything about this until now.

Skeeter · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:36

I expect this is primarily being used as a test to see how the 3D coverage works. I wouldn't hold up much hope of 3D races this year though, they were filming F1 in HD for 2 years before they actually started broadcasting in HD.

Nismo · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:37

Skeeter said:
Not quite, they are showing live footage from 2pm each day, so 2 hours a day.

Still a massive step up, and shows that FOM are allowing live testing footage to be broadcast.

Yeah, see my edit.

It would be good to see a whole race in 3D, but I can't see it happening yet. As Skeeter says, this is probably just so FOM can test the concept with an established 3D broadcaster.

Skeeter · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:45

If they are testing it, it hopefully means they are interested in it, so we could see some races shown in 3D in a year or two.

Nismo · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:48

I know it's backwards Bernie who took forever to adopt to HD, but most major sports now have been broadcast in 3D for some time. Motor sport is really the last big sporting barrier to break, so naturally you would assume F1 would be the one to do it.

(I'm also assuming MotoGP or Nascar etc. have never been done in 3D?)

Skeeter · 6 Feb 2013 at 10:00

AFAIK no Motorsports have been broadcast in 3D in Europe/UK. I don't know about America though, they might have done NASCAR or something.

Your right, given the rise of 3D TVs, SKy having F1 rights, and F1 being the pinacle of motor sport, it would be stupid of them not to at least put some serious efforts into investigating it.

Pinkham in 3D, om nom nom.

Duke · 6 Feb 2013 at 12:28

"That" finger in 3D

Nismo · 6 Feb 2013 at 12:32

Duke said:
"That" finger in 3D

What about if they interview Fittipaldi? Christ, that nose will be knocking you off the sofa!

Duke · 6 Feb 2013 at 14:15

Nismo said:
What about if they interview Fittipaldi? Christ, that nose will be knocking you off the sofa!

Haha

~Mike~ · 6 Feb 2013 at 19:55

Forget 3D you want 4K.