![]() Ah man, that was something! I never once watched F1 on the free Dutch channels, even when they went on to became HD when the BBC wasn’t yet (in NL). It’s like every pre and post session in the studio is for beginners again.īefore this, we had free-to-air BBC to watch Formula 1 as well. Dutch presenters are horrible, they know nothing about F1 and even though they invite old F1 drivers from Robert Doornbos to Jan Lammers, they never ask in-depth questions. Sounds too good to be true? It is, because even though all of that is true, the quality sucks. Heck, I can even watch those using PIP on my iPad and/or laptop. I do get six HD channels and 4 SD channels and each race weekend is fully covered from P1 to post-race analysis, with qualifying and the race using no less than 6 channels at the same time, the regular FIA feed with Dutch commentary, 2 on-board channels, the live timing, a dedicated pit feed with stats and finally a secondary feed that differs all the time. ![]() I don’t mind that at all, even though I have to pay €15 ($16-17) each month just for F1. I’m from Europe, The Netherlands to be specific, and the last 5-7 years or so have been the same all around Europe: almost no free-to-air coverage, just pay tv. I hate to break it to you, but you sound like you’re complaining about nothing. Only the most dedicated F1 fans in the USA (of which there are a very small percentage, if you divide that number by 320 million). These are really the two reasons why F1 has not caught on in the USA. The average working American works 40 hours a week and does not want to wake up early on a weekend watch a GP when they can watch Ind圜ar or NASCAR at 11 am-2 pm local time. And as for the Far Eastern races, take 4-6 hours (depending on start times) off those times I mentioned. The rest are shown on pay-TV and because the rest of the GP’s (other than the ones I mentioned) particularly the ones in Europe start at 2 pm local time, the live races over here start at 8 am if you live on the East coast (New York, Washington, Miami) and 5 am on the West coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas)- and sometimes, there are re-runs of the commercial/advertisement littered races later in the day. The only races that are shown on free-to-air channels are Monaco, Canada, USA, Mexico and sometimes Brazil and Britain. While we are on the subject of television, I thought I might explain the North American side of showing F1 on TV. Undisputed champion: 10 titles name Hamilton top driver of 2017.“Grand Prix Driver” takes you inside McLaren’s nightmare final year with Honda. ![]() Australian Grand Prix cost government £56 million last year.Williams revenues rose in 2017 after Bottas deal with Mercedes.Sepang pays Haas compensation for Grosjean’s 2017 crash.From 2019 Sky will have exclusive rights to the series. The 2017 season will be the penultimate year of live F1 coverage on Channel 4. However the races in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Mexico, which were part of Channel 4’s live line-up last year, will not be shown live by the terrestrial broadcaster in 2017. The Monaco Grand Prix will be live on free-to-air television for the first time in five years. They will be joined by the Russian, Monaco, Singapore and USA rounds which were not seen live last year. The season finale at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi will be shown live, but the penultimate race in Brazil will not.Īs last year the races in Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Britain, Belgium, Malaysia and Abu Dhabi will all be seen live on free-to-air television in the UK. The first live race on British television this year will be the third round of the championship in Bahrain. Channel 4 has revealed which ten races on the 2017 F1 calendar it will show live.
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