Indycar season opener St Petersburg

[hornet]

Anyone else looking forward to this? Been a fan of the series for years and will be interesting to see how the new cars and engines fare. Also Rubens to cheer on of course.

[LocoBlade]

For those unaware, it's going to be shown live on Sunday evening on the Sky Sports F1 channel. Sadly though it looks like this might be a one-off teaser trying to entice people to subscribe to full Sky Sports for the remainder of the season, as the rest seem to be scheduled on Sky Sports 4.

[belleair302]

I should be there....only 12 miles from my home, but alas am here. The organisers and Honda do a great event in St pete, the track is OK and the locals love it. Should be a decent season and if the showers hold off a cracking race. Hope to see Catherine Legge do well this season too!

[hornet]

Practice highlights up on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzJbimhw_JM&fea...

Have to say the cars don't look as bad as they first threatened to. Bit "busy" from certain angles, but not too bad. Love how they sound!

[Stuck In A Lift]

Any idea what time the race is on here? I'm off to the pub to watch it.

[hornet]

Stuck In A Lift said:

Any idea what time the race is on here? I'm off to the pub to watch it.

Sky listing says 5:30pm I think. Presumably that's a 6pm start, as their Indycar coverage doesn't tend to have too much preamble.

[Stuck In A Lift]

hornet said:

Sky listing says 5:30pm I think. Presumably that's a 6pm start, as their Indycar coverage doesn't tend to have too much preamble.

Thanks. Sunday dinner and a race- perfect way to end the weekend.

[Altrezia]

Is it only on sky sports?

[LocoBlade]

Yup, Sky Sports have had UK coverage for several years now, the first race is being shown on the F1 channel then it goes back to the main Sky Sports channels. I think you can subscribe and watch it on the Indycar website if you don't have Sky.

[hornet]

Other viewing methods are available if you know where to look.

[FIK]

They look OK from the front, alright from the side but truly horrendous from the back!

[Altrezia]

Ace, I'll watch this one on Sky. Last year I watched them all on the indycar site - it's pretty good quality really.

[FourWheelDrift]

The cars look better in black, hides the bodywork a bit more but the red/yellow/white and the luminous green Go Daddy type ones make them look like a child's hot wheels toy. I don't like them.

[Northern Munkee]

Warning the live indycar broadcast is on F1 BUT sue to Malaysian GP running so long and the replay running to it's full length it maybe "live" at 7pm on sky F1, it's really live right now on 408, ON THE RED BUTTON!!!!!

[MonkeyHanger]

Northern Munkee said:

Warning the live indycar broadcast is on F1 BUT sue to Malaysian GP running so long and the replay running to it's full length it maybe "live" at 7pm on sky F1, it's really live right now on 408, ON THE RED BUTTON!!!!!

So it is...

[Streps]

Northern Munkee said:

Warning the live indycar broadcast is on F1 BUT sue to Malaysian GP running so long and the replay running to it's full length it maybe "live" at 7pm on sky F1, it's really live right now on 408, ON THE RED BUTTON!!!!!

Sucks i'm watching sky f1 on virgin media and have no red button option yet

ETA Skysports 3 red button has it wooooooo!
Time to see how Rubens gets on.

Edited by Streps on Sunday 25th March 17:58

[FourWheelDrift]

It's also in a screwed up ratio, 16:9 squashed down to a 4:3 screen (if you have Auto setting, so it always changes to the correct ratio for the broadcast) have to manually change the view ratio to 16:9

Perhaps they're trying to make the cars look better

[MonkeyHanger]

Hinchcliffe in a Danica wig

[Northern Munkee]

Dear god those cars are ugly from any angle except directly in front at ground level, I think they'd not look quite so bad if they'd made them closed cockpit, closed wheel, like newey's f1 concept car.

[Daz68]

OMG what the hell is it with the designs of the car?