Get set for a model new season of Formula 1 stay on Sky Sports with the primary race from Bahrain this coming week; Make a observe of the totally different schedule: Practice is on Thursday, Qualifying is on Friday, and the Grand Prix is on SATURDAY on the season’s opening two rounds;

Formula 1 is again! A record-24 race season stay on Sky Sports F1 begins with the Bahrain Grand Prix this week as battles for 2024 success begin and rivalries renew on monitor.

After a busy and unpredictable winter low season was adopted by three days of testing in Bahrain, the brand new 2024 vehicles will get their aggressive debuts beneath floodlights on the Bahrain International Circuit because the chasing pack look to shut as much as world champions Red Bull and Max Verstappen this 12 months.

The opening race weekend – as is the case with the next week’s second spherical in Saudi Arabia – begins a day sooner than regular, which means Practice might be on Thursday, Qualifying on Friday and the Grand Prix itself on Saturday.

Sky F1 might be stay from Wednesday in Bahrain to kick off and preview the season, with the Drivers’ Press Conference and a particular season-opening preview version of The F1 Show airing stay.

Then it is into the monitor motion from simply earlier than lunchtime on Thursday with Practice as drivers construct as much as Qualifying on Friday at 4pm after which the season-opening 57-lap Grand Prix on Saturday at 3pm.

In addition to the Formula 1 motion, the brand new Formula 2 and Formula 3 seasons start in Bahrain too and all their monitor working can be being proven stay on the channel.

Why does the opening race happen on Saturday?

In a schedule change for each of the season’s opening back-to-back rounds within the Middle East, the race weekend begins a day sooner than regular.

That is as a result of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is because of begin on Sunday March 10, the day the Saudi Arabian race would usually have taken place.

To keep away from a conflict, the schedule for Jeddah occasion needed to be moved ahead by a day – which means the race was shifted to Saturday, qualifying to Friday and observe to Thursday – and as FIA guidelines dictate that there have to be a full seven days between Grands Prix then Bahrain was moved to the identical earlier schedule.

How to observe and stream Sky Sports F1 stay in 2024

Sky Sports F1 is the house of Formula 1 within the UK and Ireland and can once more broadcast each session from each race weekend stay within the 2024 season.

Subscribers can watch stay race weekend protection in a large number of how together with on TV – Sky channel 406 – and on the Sky Sports app by logging in with their Sky iD.

The channel will also be streamed on NOW with a Sports Day or Month Membership with out a contract.

Meanwhile, on the Sky Sports app, Race Control will once more be accessible to logged-in subscribers permitting you to customize your personal viewing with on-boards accessible from every of the 20 vehicles via the weekend so you possibly can observe your favorite driver up shut.

Here you may as well watch the ‘Battle Channel’ – a split-screen providing specializing in a battle between as much as three vehicles – along with switching between choices for driver tracker, multi-screen, timing display, onboard combine and, in fact, the primary stay Sky Sports F1 channel feed itself. The service can be accessible on Sky Q and Sky Glass.

Sky Sports F1’s stay Bahrain GP schedule

Wednesday February 28

• 12.30pm: Drivers’ Press Conference
• 3pm: The F1 Show – 2024 Preview

Thursday February 29

• 7.50am: F3 Practice
• 9am: F2 Practice
• 11am: Bahrain GP Practice One (session begins at 11.30am)
• 12.55pm: F3 Qualifying
• 1.40pm: F2 Qualifying
• 2.35pm: Bahrain GP Practice Two (session begins at 3pm)
• 4.15pm: The F1 Show

Friday March 1

• 10.10am: F3 Sprint Race
• 12.15pm: Bahrain GP Practice Three (session begins at 12.30pm)
• 2.10pm: F2 Sprint
• 3.10pm: Bahrain GP Qualifying build-up
• 4pm: BAHRAIN GP QUALIFYING
• 6pm: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook

Saturday March 2

• 8.55am: F3 Feature Race
• 10.25am: F2 Feature Race
• 1.30pm: Bahrain GP build-up: Grand Prix Saturday
• 3pm: THE BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
• 5pm: Bahrain GP response: Chequered Flag
• 6pm: Ted’s Notebook
• 6.30pm: Bahrain GP highlights

Watch each spherical of the brand new season, beginning with the Bahrain Grand Prix from Thursday February 29 to Saturday March 2. Stream every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership