Now to the important part of this post, the F1 race this weekend will be at the Circuit of the Americas just outside of Austin Texas, and if there's anything the F1 folks love it's BBQ and cowboy hats, so it's going to be epic! This track is now in it's third year, so we've seen both Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel win, and maybe someone like Nico Rosberg will win this year. At the end of F1 races, the top three drivers come out and celebrate on the podium like in the Olympics, typically with a baseball hat, but in Austin two years ago, winner Lewis Hamilton was wearing a winner's COWBOY hats! USA, USA, USA! You can see Lewis on the NBC Today show, Wednesday morning some time between 8-9AM EST, so I'm looking forward to seeing his Mercedes F1 car parked at Rockefeller Center!
For those of us that won't be there live and in person, the friendly folk at NBC and NBC Sports Network will crank up their coverage to include all three practice sessions starting Friday, qualifying on Saturday, and of course the live race on NBC Sunday afternoon. Going head to head with the NFL should prove to be interesting as far as who garners the most viewers, and I can only predict that the NFL will have more, just not at my house!
As NBC promotes their F1 coverage, they are also throwing everything but the kitchen sink on the air this week to get the F1 blood pumping, so let's take a look at what they are planning below. You can find this info at: F1 on NBC
Date
|
Coverage
|
Network
|
Time
(ET)
|
Thurs.,
October 30
|
Off
The Grid (Encore) |
NBCSN
|
7
p.m.
|
“1”
–
F1 Documentary
|
NBCSN
|
7:30
p.m.
|
|
Road
To Mercedes (Premiere)
|
NBCSN
|
10
p.m.
|
|
Road
to Ferrari (Encore)
|
NBCSN
|
11
p.m.
|
|
Fri.,
October 31 |
/DRIVE
on NBCSN (Encore)
|
NBCSN
|
12
a.m.
|
/DRIVE
on NBCSN (Encore)
|
NBCSN
|
12:30
a.m.
|
|
Road
To Mercedes (Encore)
|
NBCSN
|
1
a.m.
|
|
Off
The Grid (Encore)
|
NBCSN
|
12
p.m.
|
|
F1
United States Grand Prix – Practice 1
|
NBCSN
|
12:30
p.m.
|
|
Road
To Mercedes (Encore)
|
NBCSN
|
2
p.m.
|
|
F1
United States Grand Prix – Practice 2
|
NBCSN
|
3
p.m.
|
|
F1
Countdown
|
NBCSN
|
4:30
p.m.
|
|
F1
United States Grand Prix – Practice 2 (Encore)
|
NBCSN
|
10:30
p.m.
|
|
Sat.,
November 1
|
F1
United States Grand Prix – Practice 3 & Qualifying
|
NBC
|
1
p.m.
|
Sun.,
November 2
|
F1
United States Grand Prix – Qualifying (Encore)
|
NBCSN
|
12:30
a.m.
|
F1
Countdown
|
NBCSN
|
2
p.m.
|
|
F1
Countdown
|
NBC
|
2:30
p.m.
|
|
F1
United States Grand Prix
|
NBC
|
3
p.m.
|
|
F1
Extra
|
NBC
|
5
p.m.
|