Formula 1 Race Today Highlights

In 2011, Sky Sports signed a seven-year deal with the BBC , to show live Formula One on Sky in the United Kingdom for the first time. The deal which ran between 2012 and 2015 saw Sky Sports show live coverage of every session of the season on their own F1 dedicated channel, Sky Sports F1. Sky Sports F1 show all races and qualifying sessions live without the interruption of adverts.

At the same time it was announced that Sky will broadcast all events in ultra-high-definition from 2017. Sky Sports F1 have broadcast every practice, qualifying and race since 2017 in 4K Ultra-HD, exclusively for Sky Q 2TB customers. After 19 extremely hard-fought and entertaining races, F1 arrives at the 5.38-kilometer Losail International Circuit for the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix.

The intense rivalry between two of the biggest "speed demons" – Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton will continue in Qatar this weekend when the two collide again on the race track. Lewis Hamilton claimed the pole position at Saturday's final qualifying, dominating the day and finishing half a second ahead of Max Verstappen. Verstappen and Hamilton's Mercedes teammate – Valtteri Bottas will be in the second and third positions, joining Hamilton in the front row. Meanwhile, after stampeding to victory from 10th place last week, Hamilton arrives in Qatar with a big smile on his face. The seven-time world champion knows his Mercedes has the straight-line speed to waft pass the rakish Red Bulls on Losail's fast and flowing track – assuming Max doesn't force him off the circuit, of course.

In other F1 news, Alfa Romeo have signed F2 racer Guanyu Zhou for 2022. Zhou will become Formula 1's first Chinese driver, thus expanding motorsport's appeal across Asia. Here is a look at how to watch Qatar Grand Prix main race in India, the Qatar Grand Prix live streaming details. BBC. Following the commencement of their deal with Sky, the BBC continued to broadcast live coverage of half the races and all 20 races had "extended highlights". In 2012, they broadcast live coverage from China, Spain, Monaco, Europe , Britain, Belgium, Singapore, Korea, Abu Dhabi and Brazil. They also showed live coverage of practice and qualifying sessions from those races.

The deal set that the British Grand Prix and the final race had to be shown live on the BBC. Alongside the main World Feed, FOM also produce a Pit-lane channel, showing shots from the pitlane and alternative camera angles, along with detailed weather and tyre information, and extra team radio. FOM also produce onboard channels, showing live video from cameras installed on the drivers' cars. The channels switch between different cars throughout the session. FOM also make available a "Driver tracker" channel, showing live positions of all the cars on the track during a session, as well as a timing screen showing live lap-times and circuit sector information. If Mercedes fail to beat Red Bull to victory here, then you have to question Hamilton's realistic hopes of claiming the drivers' title, even with a potential 13 races left.

All will not be lost, but going without a win in six races is a very bad sign indeed. The small comfort for the defending champions is that Verstappen's team-mate Sergio Pérez will start in last place after spinning in yesterday's sprint qualifying, so that offers a good chance of making ground in the constructors' championship. MBC Group covers all races live with the full coverage on practice sessions, qualifying and race in two languages.

Jordanian Firas Nimri is the commentator in Arabic, alongside Khalil Beschir as the expert. MBC Persia also covers races live in Persian language. Iranian Hamed Majd commentates in Persian and it's been co-commentated by Iranian racing driver, Kourosh Khani. The drama dutifully returned on the street circuit of Azerbaijan's capital, with a joint-record four red flags brought out during Saturday's qualifying session. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc managed to grasp pole position for the second race in a row but failed to keep it beyond lap two, when he was overtaken by Lewis Hamilton. After that the Monegasque went backwards down the order but recovered to fourth.

As of 2019, Sky Sports F1 is the primary English-language broadcaster within the UK. David Croft commentates with Martin Brundle or occasionally Paul di Resta. Depending on the race, one of Ted Kravitz or Karun Chandhok contributes from the pit lane.

For practice sessions, Croft is often joined by Paul di Resta, Anthony Davidson, Johnny Herbert, or Chandhok with Brundle providing trackside analysis. This coverage is used for highlights on the F1 YouTube channel. The show edits the races to about 50 minutes from start to the checkered flag and is broadcast around midnight on race days on free air TV, channels 4 or 9 in Mexico.

They also broadcast live the Mexican Grand Prix from Practice 1 to the Race from the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, since 2015, with Rafael and Carlos accompanied by Eric Fisher. In the pay-per-view channel DAZN, which holds the rights of the entire championship exclusively in Spain from the 2021 season replacing Movistar F1, the main commentator is journalist Antonio Lobato. Co-commentators for the qualifying and the race are former Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren, Sauber and HRT driver Pedro de la Rosa and F1 engineer Toni Cuquerella, who worked for Williams, Ferrari, and HRT. Cuquerella is also the co-commentator for Free Practice 3 while journalists Jacobo Vega and Cristobal Rosaleny alternate the co-commentating on the Friday Free Practices.

They comment from a TV studio in Madrid, except for the Spanish Grand Prix, where journalist Nira Juanco acts as presenter. Pit reporters are journalist Noemí de Miguel and former F1 engineer in Super Aguri and HRT Albert Fàbrega. Also, Ferrari test driver Marc Gené provides analysis from the circuit before, during and/or after every session. Other contributors include Miguel Portillo and former GP2 driver Roldan Rodriguez.

On 14 October 2012, NBC Sports signed a four-year deal to broadcast Formula One races in the United States. The majority of its coverage (including most races, and all practice/qualifying sessions) was broadcast by the pay channel NBCSN , while four races were aired by the free-to-air NBC network per-season. The network also streamed additional camera feeds through its digital platforms. With an average speed topping 200kph and reaching top speeds of over 300kph, F1 is the fastest motorsport in the world. Whether it's down the straights or taking tight corners, Formula 1 cars and drivers are engineered to withstand up to a whopping 6g of g-force.

With a duration of around 90 minutes per race, these elite drivers require the same fitness levels as any other professional athlete in any sporting event. Requiring skill, intelligence and accuracy, F1 racing leaves no room for error with such high speeds, split decisions and miscalculations can lead to some of the worst crashes in motorsport history. But with high risk comes high reward, the sport proves to be an electric atmosphere for the drivers, teams and fans combined.

You can also watch Formula 2, Formula 3 and Porsche Supercup coverage. In Teledeporte, the sports channel of the Spanish national public TV, which offers a 60-minutes time highlights of every race , journalist Marc Martí is the main commentator, with GP3 Series driver Alex Palou as co-commentator. In the live broadcast of the Spanish Grand Prix, they were joined by FIA World Endurance Championship and former Manor Marussia F1 driver Roberto Merhi and journalist Juan Carlos Garcia, who was the pit reporter.

In Hungary, the commentator is Zoltán Szujó, who had been previously pit reporter between 2002 and 2012. The colour commentator is the former Seat Leon Eurocup Champion and the former chief-editor of F1 Racing Hungary, Gábor Wéber. The studio analysts are the two-time FIA European Truck Racing Championship champion, Norbert Kiss, the two-time WTCC Yokohama Driver's Trophy winner and WTCR champion, Norbert Michelisz, and the current TCR Europe, former WTCC driver, Dániel Nagy. The pit reporters are Róbert Bobák, Máté Ujvári and Ádám Szeleczki. The translator of the after-quali and after-race interviews is Lőrinc Pattantyűs-Ábrahám.

From 2019 Spanish Grand Prix, Szujó left/was fired from M4 Sport channel, he was replaced on the race by Máté Ujvári. From the Monaco Grand Prix, Wéber taking the role of main commentator, and Norbert Kiss and Norbert Michelisz will be the colour commentators . The pit reporters also will taking part in broadcasting of the practices. The first Hungarian commentators were Sándor Dávid and Jenő Knézy. At one time Andrew Frankl also participated in the broadcasts. Their couple was the most famous and notorious in the history of Formula-1 Broadcasting in Hungary.

Both McLaren drivers used the same medium to hard strategy that was adopted by the majority of the field at the 2021 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix, but Valtteri Bottas and Mercedes also showed what was possible with the opposite strategy. The performance of the hard tyre here was underlined by the fact that Daniel Ricciardo set the fastest lap on the final lap, having managed the race perfectly since the restart. Today's warm weather certainly favoured the hard and medium compounds, which both showed minimal degradation, while at the opposite end of the spectrum, it was a bit too warm for the soft to show its speed advantage. For those on a budget, once again there are extended highlights of all F1 races on Channel 4, with additional live coverage of the British Grand Prix in July. A last-minute rights deal meant the Channel 4 also showed live coverage of the Abu Dhabi finale, though using the Sky Sports F1 feed and commentary.

Highlights were also available on the channel's on-demand service, All 4. Channel 4's commentator called the inaugural Saudi GP "an incredible day of confusion," which is an understatement – this will go down as one of the most contentious races of all time. But it delivered on thrills and means a final race of the season with the two leading drivers tied on points, as the incredible 2021 season reaches its conclusion.

The second of the back-to-back races at the Red Bull Ring saw Verstappen pick up where he left off, delighting the Austrian crowd with pole position and then leading every lap of his team's home grand prix. A huge number of Dutch fans also mad there way to Austria to watch their hero dominate proceedings. Hamilton earned the 100th pole position of his career in Barcelona, but duly gave up first position on the first corner of the grand prix, having no option but to sacrifice the spot to an aggressive move by Max Verstappen. Channel 4 has free-to-air Formula 1 qualifying and race highlights which usually start airing a few hours after the chequered flag has been waved. It also has live free-to-air coverage of the British grand prix every year, and is home of the all-women's W Series.

Max Verstappen held off Formula One title rival Lewis Hamilton over the final thrilling laps of the U.S. Grand Prix on Sunday to win his eighth race of the season and double his lead in the championship standings. Cue the best, and most contentious, opening lap of recent memory. From 2018, Formula 1 officially started to show live streaming of each race online with many other features. The F1 TV service includes many other features like a live view of each driver's car and replay of all Formula 1 races. As of 2019, Formula 1 TV restricts viewing to the country of residence, and requires the user to have a valid credit card in that same country.

Due to rights restrictions, it is not possible to watch F1 TV from outside one's home country. Channel 4, who normally only have rights for a highlights show in the evening after a race, have struck a deal for live coverage in Abu Dhabi, with the race starting at 1pm UK time on Sunday afternoon. Ricciardo was a deserving winner, however, having passed Verstappen for the lead at the race start from P2 on the grid, before Verstappen and Hamilton's clash cleared the way for him to control the race to sweep home to an eighth career victory. Lando Norris secured his best ever race finish with P2, having been told to hold station behind his teammate in the final moments of the Grand Prix. Channel 4 will continue to broadcast free-to-air highlights of every qualifying session and race throughout the 2021 Formula 1 season, plus live coverage of the British Grand Prix weekend on July.

Another exciting element of the 2021 F1 season was the debut of Sprint Qualifying. The 100km races determined the starting grid for Sunday's grands prix and awarded championship points to the top three drivers. Norris led for much of the race, and regained the advantage shortly after a late stop for a set of fresh rubber. Meanwhile Stroll was by the accident ahead and drove into the side of Leclerc.

After a safety car, teams were told there would be a standing start from the grid, but just beforehand all the drivers except leader Hamilton dived into the pits for slick tyres, as the track was drying. Alpine are due to give new Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri some track time, while both Ferrari and Haas will test another Formula 2 driver, Robert Shwartzman. Mercedes welcomes Formula E champion Nyck de Vries, and Formula 2's Logan Sargeant makes his debut in a Williams. All teams will be obliged to run rookies in free practice sessions from 2022, so expect to see a lot more of them during grands prix weekends.

In the event of one of these relatively unlikely outcomes leading to a tie on points, the driver who has claimed the most wins of the season would take the title. This season, Max has won nine grands prix while Lewis has won eight, which would therefore make Max the drivers' champion if they were tied on points. In the event two drivers had the same number of points and grand prix victories, the countback continues through the highest number of second places, highest number of third places and so on.

Going into the final grand prix of the year at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina circuit, Max Verstappen and Sir Lewis Hamilton are tied on 369.5 points each. The last time where the two leading Formula 1 drivers in the championship went into the final race tied on points was in 1974. After winning the 2020 F2 championship, Mick Schumacher made his F1 debut this season with Haas F1 alongside F2 rival Nikita Mazepin. The team, however, made the decision not to develop their car this season due to financial difficulties. This meant that Schumacher and Mazepin, often the slowest cars on track, lapped significantly slower than the rest of the grid. Coverage of the British Grand Prix is also covered live by Channel 4.

Channel 4 also produces a highlights show for each race with an exclusive set of commentators. Play-by-play is handled by Alex Jacques, while ex-F1 driver David Coulthard acts as the analyst. Ben Edwards and Mark Webber occasionally cover for both Jacques and Coulthard respectively. Lawrence Barretto and Lee McKenzie serve as the main relief presenters and reporters. Eddie Jordan, Mark Webber, and Billy Monger also contribute as analysts. All races with full coverage is broadcast on Ziggo Sport.

Presenter Rob Kamphues led the coverage from studio in Hilversum and joined by regular analysts Robert Doornbos, Tom Coronel, Tim Coronel and numerous guest analysts including Giedo van der Garde, Robin Frijns or Ho-Pin Tung. Main commentator is Jack Plooij on free practice and Olav Mol on qualifying and race. Plooij and Mol alternately also served as pit reporters. 2021 will be Ziggo's last season after nine years of broadcasting as their confirmed the loss of the broadcast licence. On 4 October 2017, ESPN announced that it had acquired rights to Formula One under a multi-year deal beginning in 2018. ESPN had previously broadcast Formula One from 1984 to 1997.

The majority of coverage will be carried by ESPN2, but two races will be carried on the main ESPN channel, and three races , as well as an afternoon encore of the Monaco Grand Prix , will be broadcast free-to-air on ABC. Unlike the previous contract with NBC Sports, Formula One will retain over-the-top rights, ESPN will reportedly not pay a traditional rights fee, and it was originally announced that the broadcasts would rely primarily on the world feed. However, it was later announced that ESPN would utilize Sky Sports' coverage. Verstappen started seventh but made a storming start to reach fourth by turn one, but Hamilton capitalised on pole position and kept his lead. By lap five, Vesrtappen was up into second place, driving the doors off his Red Bull , with Bottas and Perez also driving through the field to make up for lowly grid positions.

It was "won" by Max Verstappen, who had qualified on pole, with a delighted George Russell in the Williams finishing behind him after a sensational lap on Saturday. The seven-times world champion again had to settle for second place, although he did snatch an extra point for the fastest lap thanks to a late pit stop. Mercedes Boss Toto Wolff admitted that, for the first time in the turbo-hybrid era that his team has dominated, Mercedes had "no weapons in our armoury". Hamilton agreed, estimating that Red Bull had an advantage of a quarter of a second on every lap of its home circuit. Sky's race day coverage of this weekend's Abu Dhabi grand prix will also simulcast on Channel 4, as mentioned above. All Sky customers will have access to qualifying on Saturday and the race via Sky Showcase.

However, Sky Sports F1 will be the only place where you can watch every session, including free practice, as well as the Formula 2 finale. A win and fastest lap for Verstappen, who started on pole but lost out to Hamilton at the start before regaining the lead at the first pit stops. He then made a second stop for fresh tyres and won with fastest lap.