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The Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix, the fourth race of the 2013 Formula 1 season, takes place on one of the series’ most challenging courses. That would be the 5.412 km Bahrain International Circuit. As is always the case when racing in Bahrain, it will be the heat that will tax both drivers and the cars. The temperature at race time on Sunday in Sakhir will be near 90 degrees...
Published: April 11, 2013
Sunday, the eyes of the Formula 1 world will focus on the 5.451 km Shanghai International Circuit, the home of the 2013 Chinese Grand Prix. It is the third race of the Formula 1 season and there seems to be a wide open field. So who has the best chance of winning this week in Shanghai? The odds makers feel that the Chinese Grand Prix will be won by current point’s leader Sebastian...
Published: April 10, 2013
The Chinese Grand Prix, the third race of the 2013 Formula 1 season, takes place on one of the series’ most challenging courses. That would be the 5.451 km Shanghai International Circuit. It is the long straight-a-ways where cars can reach over 190 miles per hour that make the course exciting. However, turns Nos. 1 and 2 make up a very long right-hand curve, which leads immediately into turns...
Published: March 23, 2013
The people of Kuala Lumpur have much too be proud of when it comes to their city. After all, it is world renowned for being one of Asia’s most eco-friendly cities. Kuala Lumpur is also home to one architectural world’s most interesting buildings—the 88-story Petronas Twin Towers. The Towers were designed to mirror the country’s high-tech ambitions while fusing stainless steel...
Published: March 21, 2013
Last week kicked off the 2013 Formula One season with the Australian Grand Prix won by Kimi Raikkonen for the Renault-powered Lotus F1 Team. So it is on to the Malaysia Grand Prix, and NBC Sports Network has a doubleheader of open-wheel racing this week. First up, at 3:30 a.m.EDT on NBCSN is live coverage of the Malaysia Grand Prix starting with the pre-race show, and at 4 a.m., the race action...
Published: March 14, 2013
Last year when NBC Universal acquired the U.S. television rights to Formula One racing, they had a plan. The network thought that if they packaged it properly and promoted it aggressively, then the world’s most popular racing series might be a hit in the U.S. All 19 races will get max coverage. NBC Sports Network will air 13 races, two races go to CNBC and NBC will broadcast...
Published: January 12, 2013
As the Australian Open, the first major of 2013, gets underway Sunday in Melbourne, there are a number of interesting questions arising. When the 2012 season came to an end tennis fans saw very interesting storylines beginning to take shape. Last week just before she left for Melbourne I spoke to ESPN analyst Chris Evert, the winner of 18 Grand Slam singles championships. Evert counts among those titles...
Published: November 17, 2012
It has been four years since Formula One has held a race in this country, and to say that the stakes are high for Sunday’s United States Grand Prix would be an understatement. The race will be run on a brand new, state-of-the-art race course built for Formula One in Austin, Texas. The race promoters and the executives at the new Circuit of The Americas track hope they can impress everyone enough...
Published: November 15, 2012
As many may know, after a long and successful run on Speed, starting in 2013, Formula One will have a brand new television home in the United States. NBC outbid the Fox-owned Speed channel for the exclusive rights to show Formula One in this country. The move to NBC ended a successful 17-year relationship between Speed and Formula One. NBC announced today that their broadcast team for F1 would be Leigh...
Published: November 13, 2012
After a four-year layoff Formula 1 is back in Austin, Texas and ready to give this country another chance at hosting a race. Come Sunday when the United States Grand Prix is run in this cosmopolitan town that is home to both the state’s capital and the University of Texas fans worldwide might have a different view of Austin. It may come as a surprise to some but Formula 1 racing in the...