Formula One Qatar Airways Azərbaycan Qran Prisi Thread

Formula One World Championship / Liberty Media ^

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Bakı Şəhər Halqası

Architect: Hermann Tilke
First Grand Prix: 2016
Number of Laps: 51
Circuit Length: 3.730 miles
Race Distance: 190.17 miles
Lap Record: 1:40.203, Charles Leclerc (MON), 2023 Race Qualifying

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Schedule for the race (all times EDT)

FRIDAY
0200-0245: F2 FP1
0430-0530: F1 FP1 (ESPNU)
0630-0730: F2 Qualifying
0800-0900: F1 Qualifying (ESPNU)

SATURDAY
0430-0530: F1 FP3 (ESPN2)
0615-0705: F2 Race 1 (21 Laps with a 45 minute time limit, after which the race will end after one lap)
0800-0900: F1 Qualifying (ESPN2)


SUNDAY
0300-0405: F2 Race 2 (29 laps with a 60 minute time limit, after which the race will end in one lap)
0530: Grand Prix Sunday (ESPN)
0700: F1 Qatar Airways Azərbaycan Qran Prisi (51 laps with a 120 minute time limit of racing or 180 minutes from formation lap) (ESPN)

Last race in Europe for the season.

Next three rounds:

October 5 Singapore Airlines Grand Prix, Singapore
October 19 MSC Cruises United States Grand Prix, Austin
October 26 Gran Premio de la Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México

In news, the start times for the 2026 Formula One season have been released.

The majority of races will feature a 1500 local start time.

1400: Suzuka (March 29), Ciudad de México (November 1), Interlagos (November 8)
1500: Melbourne (March 8), Shanghai (March 15), Monaco (June 7), Montmelo (Gran Premi di Barcelona) (June 14), Spielberg (June 28), Silverstone (July 5), Spa (July 19), Mogoroyd (July 26), Zandvoort (August 23), Monza (September 6), Madrid (Gran Premio de España) (September 13), Bakı (September 26), Austin (October 25)
1600: Miami (May 3), Montréal (May 24)
1700: Yas (December 6)
1800: Sakhir (April 12)
1900: Lusail (November 29)
2000: Jeddah (April 19), Singapore (October 11), Las Vegas (November 21)

F1 doesn't have a United States media contract. Insiders favour an Apple deal, but Cadillac and some sponsors could balk over loss of viewership and elitism.

[ClearCase_guy]

That headline will win you a game of scrabble, that’s for sure.

[BBB333]

Do you know there is a F1 thread?

Are you helping out?

Thank you for this.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

That’s the official race name!

[oldplayer]

I wonder if the professional Pro-Hamas and assorted other terrorists shut down the race as they did the Spanish la Vuelta professional bicycle race? s/

[null and void]

I seldom see a schwa in a thread title...

[rfp1234]

They’d get their heads chopped off in Qatar. Too many $$$$$ involved.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Probably not.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Probably not.

[Paal Gulli]

"...Architect: Hermann Tilke..."

Not exactly something to be bragging about.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Probably something from golf where course designers are listed.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

F1 announced the 2026 Sprint Races:

March 14 - Shanghai
May 2 - Miami Gardens
May 23 - Montréal
July 4 - Silverstone
August 22 - Zandvoort
October 10 - Singapore

SOURCE: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/formula-1-and-fia-announce-2026-sprint-calendar.3PyLPAazrBNe8kQIS3wOfY

[Paal Gulli]

"Probably something from golf where course designers are listed."

That's not my point. Tilke's circuits ALL SUCK. Overtaking on all of them is scarcer than hobbyhorse turds. The only reason why the Chrome Gnome would have kept hiring him is he was paying a kickback to Ecclestone. Because his product SUCKS ASS.

[BBB333]

You should post this to the Formula 1 thread:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2309318/posts

Thanks.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

FIA has safety rules. But they way it’s designed everything is 200 MPH straight into a 40 MPH hairpin. They’d rather race at Bahrain than INDYCAR’s Barber, Road America, or the full Sonoma (NASCAR). There’s more action when you can put a big screen and a huge stand and care little about the paying public having a headset, walk around the track, and listen to a radio broadcast.

[Paal Gulli]

"I wonder if the professional Pro-Hamas and assorted other terrorists shut down the race as they did the Spanish la Vuelta professional bicycle race? s/"

Hambone has come out as being pro-Hamas twice.

[BBB333]

Did you see this?

I posted it to Mabarker1 but have had no reply from him or WhiteHat a-hole...

Thanks for YOUR appropriate thread, Carriage Hill.

Thanks you Carriage Hill for keeping the F! ping list going!