Thursday, November 16 Opening Ceremony - 12:30 AM - ESPN2 Practice 1 - 11:25 PM - ESPN 2 Friday, November 17 Practice 2 - 2:55 AM - ESPN F1 Show - 4.15 AM - ESPN 3 Practice 3 - 11:25 PM - ESPNU Saturday, November 18 Qualifying - 2:55 AM - ESPN Ted's Qualifying Notebook - 5:00 AM - ESPN3 Grand Prix Pre-show - 11:30 PM - ESPN / ESPN+ Sunday, November 19 Countdown to Las Vegas - 12:00AM - ESPN3 / Social Las Vegas Grand Prix - 12.55 AM - ESPN / ESPN+ Checkered Flag - 3:00 AM - ESPN 3
https://www.autosport.com/ Scroll all the way down down till you see the Grand Prix weeekend schedule. On top of it there is an arrow facing up; if you click on that it is local time. If you click on the globe next to it it is western Europe time (not UK).
Wow. With times like these I don't need to bother catching anything on TV. Hopefully my TIVO will record it all. Insane time slots. Nuts. Bunkers.
Hopefully this event will be more refined for next year. LV just acquired the Oakland As Baseball Team yesterday. Not my cup of tea, but LV is High Stepping.
I didn't realize Las Vegas is near the coast of Japan. My bad, I thought it was part of the continental US. What did I know?
Sainz: F1 needs to rethink “overdone” weekend schedule Formula 1 must rethink "repetitive" and "overpacked" weekend schedules amid the extra commitments facing drivers during the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix, reckons Ferrari's Carlos Sainz.
Kinda funny: For the audience it is anything but overdone given no support races. For the F1 drivers: well I guess they just got another Monaco event for the sponsors, deal with it, you get paid millions for it
I'll do that for quali and the race. I don't think a red flag in practice would extend the practice session but I could be wrong. Not watching any of this live. Crazy times. Idiotic.
F1 and Liberty Media are trying to treat this race like it's the Olympic games. The money put into theatrics that the vast majority simply find extremely cringe is unbelievable. The extra media all the drivers are having to do is becoming unethical. The start times that completely screws any home viewer in North America. The fact that the weather is going to be borderline dangerously cold and they simply put that down to "an oversight". The pit lane exit goes right into the apex of turn 1, what could go wrong there. And the fact they are forcing this down our throats to the point we can't escape it. This is far worse than I imagined. I will admit, the race may actually be entertaining with all the drama we can expect. But the spectacle is so bad that my irritation is kind of wanting this race to be a giant failure. Sounds horrible, but I think F1 and Liberty need a kick in the nuts and dial it back and change their views to the point that good racing is the focus.
None of this compares to me with the loss of the grid girls and their replacement with grid kids. THAT to me was the worst Liberty has done so far.
I'm amused by the people who think money and celebrity are ruining the sport. You all need to think back to Lord Hesketh
Ha! I'll set an alarm to wake up and watch Macau F3 online, but I'm going to pass and just catch the highlights of this dog and pony show.....
Hesketh didn't last long if you remember, and didn't leave a durable memory in F1. In motorcycling either ...
He needed money and notoriety for a poorly funded team. There is a large difference of scale here to put it mildly lol.
Hesketh entered F1 as a hobby, not a sustainable proposition, and squandered most of the family money he had inherited. Within a few years the team ran out of money and had to stop. He did the same with Hesketh Motorcycles.
