Brazilian Grand Prix – Schedule + news

September 21, 2005 by paul
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Instead of getting up to watch the race at 7am/8am on a Sunday, this weekend’s race is in Brazil which is only an hour different, so I’ll be able to watch it at lunchtime … except TSN are showing golf and Nascar instead, and Speed’s commentators are morons.

This weekend’s schedule:

	Circuit (local) time	EDT (GMT -4hrs)	TV coverage
Friday Practice 1	1100-1200	1000-1100	x
Friday Practice 2	1400-1500	1300-1400	Live on Speed
Saturday Practice 1	0900-0945	0800-0845	x
Saturday Practice 2	1015-1100	0915-1000	x
Saturday Qualifying	1300-1400	1200-1300	Live on Speed; TSN is showing golf!
Race	1400-1600	1300-1500	Live on Speed (pre-race @ 1230); TSN is showing NASCAR

[sources: official F1 site; TSN; SpeedTV]

Recent news:

As expected (by most people, I suspect) Jenson Button is staying with BAR for next season. The rumours are that JB is paying Williams £20m, but no details have been officially released. [BBC]
Christian Klien is keeping the Red Bull seat for the remaining three races, sidelining Vitantonio Liuzzi. [BBC]
Nick Heidfeld has signed to remain with BMW … albeit in the renamed-for-2006 Sauber team rather than with Williams. [BBC]
As well as losing their enginer supplier (BMW), an existing driver (Heidfeld), a potential new driver (Button), and changing tyre supplier, Williams have lost their main sponsor, Hewlett-Packard. [BBC]
Not really that much of a surprise, Indianapolis Motor Speedway has confirmed that the 2006 race will be held on 2 July, subject fo final approval by the governing FIA. [BBC]