Formula 1 2018: Race Times
Over the past couple of days, we’ve been hearing of more changes taking place in Formula 1 (again) and now – we’re facing more changes and this time, changes are being made to the race times for the 2018 Formula 1 season.
All of this is down to the new owners of F1 – Liberty Media which believe that moving the start times to 10 minutes past the hour will improve the experience of TV Viewers.
Formula 1 Authorities – “Research has indicated that a wider TV audience is reachable later in the afternoons, especially in the summer months. Consequently, it has decided to move the schedule of every session across the whole weekend for the Grand Prix.”
Yes – the change isn’t just for Race Day, it includes qualifying sessions too. For example – for the season-opening on March 25th, the Australian Grand Prix will start at 6:10 am (UK time) with he first qualifying session starting at 6am (UK time) the day before.
The Bahrain Grand Prix which is a ‘twilight’ race will start at the local time of 6:10pm – this is 15 minutes after sunset.
Below you can see all the new race times for every race of the season.
Formula 1 2018: Race Times For EVERY Race
All UK Time
Australian GP – Date: March 25 – Race Start Time: 6.10am
Bahrain GP – Date: April 8 – Race Start Time: 4.10pm
Chinese GP – Date: April 15 – Race Start Time: 7.10am
Azerbaijan GP – Date: April 29 – Race Start Time: 1.10pm
Spanish GP – Date: May 13 – Race Start Time: 2.10pm
Monaco GP – Date: May 27 – Race Start Time: 2.10pm
Canadian GP – Date: June 10 – Race Start Time: 7.10pm
French GP – Date: June 24 – Race Start Time: 3.10pm
Austrian GP – Date: July 1 – Race Start Time: 2.10pm
British GP – Date: July 8 – Race Start Time: 2.10pm
German GP – Date: July 22 – Race Start Time: 2.10pm
Hungarian GP – Date: July 29 – Race Start Time: 2.10pm
Belgian GP – Date: August 26 – Race Start Time: 2.10pm
Italian GP – Date: September 2 – Race Start Time: 2.10pm
Singapore GP – Date: September 16 – Race Start Time: 1.10pm
Russian GP – Date: September 30 – Race Start Time: 12.10pm
Japanese GP – Date: October 7 – Race Start Time: 6.10am
United States GP – Date: October 21 – Race Start Time: 7.10pm
Mexican GP – Date: October 28 – Race Start Time: 7.10pm
Brazilian GP – Date: November 11 – Race Start Time: 5.10pm
Abu Dhabi GP – Date: November 25 – Race Start Time: 1.10pm
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